SDCCD to walk in annual Pride Parade

May 19, 2019 | San Diego Community College District

Students, faculty, and staff from the San Diego Community College District will march under the district banner at the annual Pride Parade on Saturday, July 13, one of the largest in the country with up to 100,000 spectators expected. This year’s parade theme is "Stonewall 50: Legacy of Liberation."

The SDCCD has had a presence in the annual parade since it began more than 40 years ago, but will be the fifth year the district marches together as a contingent. Members of the district’s Board of Trustees will take part in the celebration, and representatives from every college – City, Mesa, and Miramar, along with Continuing Education – will be there, too.

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The parade is set to start at 11 a.m. It follows a 1.5-mile-route beginning at the Hillcrest Pride Flag at University Avenue and Normal Street, continues west on University Avenue, turns south on Sixth Avenue and left onto Balboa Drive and ends at Quince Drive.

Free T-shirts will be provided to the first 200 SDCCD participants. Parking is available at the City College parking structure. Free shuttle service will run between the Old Naval Hospital on President’s Way to the start of the parade route.

San Diego’s Pride Parade has grown from when 400 or so people marched and rallied in Balboa Park to celebrate the LGBT community in June of 1974. It follows LGBT Pride Month, celebrated each June to commemorate the Stonewall riots in New York, which occurred at the end of June, 1969.

For more information about the Pride Parade, visit sdpride.org/parade.

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