See for maps and schedules or call the InfoLine at (727) 540-1900. PSTA also has several routes serving the area if you want to park remotely. And the Central Avenue Trolley will run until 2:30 a.m. There will be a free park and ride at St. on Central Avenue at 25th Street will have more than 350 vendors, multiple stages, live music, art and food. Sunday's street festival from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and run about a mile south on Bayshore Drive to Albert Whitted Park along the downtown waterfront, followed by fireworks. The parade will start at Fifth Avenue NE at North Straub Park at 7 p.m. On Saturday, there will be continuous music in Straub Park and vendors starting at 2 p.m. on Friday in Straub Park will be a fundraiser for local nonprofits. His opponent, former mayor Rick Baker, never attended the parade while in office but has said it is important to embrace the LGBT community.Ī free concert from 7-10 p.m. In 2012, he was the first mayor to be one of the parade's grand marshals. Being an election year, current mayor Rick Kriseman is touting his embrace of Pride. Past mayors have refused to attend one of the city's largest events, making it a political hot button. In the end, organizers won the right to move the parade downtown, but kept Sunday's street festival in Grand Central. Moving the parade with thousands of revelers from the gay-friendly Grand Central District along Central Avenue to the scenic waterfront brought a showdown with City Hall.
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Petersburg event has swelled into more than a full week of activities and parties that organizers said has developed to have an economic impact of more $20 million.
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The series of sometimes violent demonstrations is considered a turning point in the gay rights movement and has turned June into Gay Pride Month around the country. It was in June of 1969 that the gay community stood up to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood.
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"It makes it easier for people within walking distance of hotels and there's a much larger number of restaurants and bars participating and holding events that will really help people stay in St. "I think overall it will seem a little different this year," said Eric Skains, executive director of St.