{"id":245233,"date":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/lgbt-pride-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T07:00:00","slug":"lgbt-pride-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/lgbt-pride-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Pride this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marking the 38th annual celebration with community voices<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11318\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318 lazyload\" title=\"Natasha pic web\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Natasha-pic-web-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"LGBT Pride this weekend\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/224;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Bedingfield will perform Sunday, July 22. (Courtesy SD Pride)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Por Antonio Rey | Editor SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hillcrest and Balboa Park are host to this weekend\u2019s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade and Festival, now in its 38th year. Starting at University Avenue and Normal Street, the Parade takes place Saturday, July 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. along University and Sixth avenues, ending in Balboa Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival, on Saturday as well as Sunday, July 22, will be at Marston Point in Balboa Park. The Festival entrance is near the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Laurel Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our 2012 San Diego LGBT Pride theme of America\u2019s Pride, we are looking to celebrate the exciting victories the LGBT community has achieved in the past year and push forward on issues of equality,\u201d said San Diego Pride Executive Director Dwayne Crenshaw in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Uptown News Assistant Editor Morgan Hurley reached out to several community members for our second yearly Pride Guide insert, and third year of Pride coverage. Called Community Voices, the section features over 20 different \u2013 and wonderful \u2013 responses to the question, \u201cWhat does Pride mean to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also in the insert is a comprehensive listing of events, including the Friday, July 20 raising of the permanent Pride flag on Normal Street and the Hillcrest Business Association\u2019s Block Party, as well as the complete entertainment lineup for the Pride Festival. While not exhaustive, it provides a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the guide are interviews with Festival headliners Natasha Bedingfield and \u201cGlee\u201d start Alex Newell, as well as a photo spread of past Pride events in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield, who rose to fame with the single \u201cUnwritten, said she is excited to be in San Diego and anticipates a wide range of attendees at the concert. \u201cThe whole community comes out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great chance to celebrate life and living, which we all need.\u201d Bedingfield performs Sunday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the 38th annual celebration with community voices By Anthony King | SDUN Editor Hillcrest and Balboa Park are host to this weekend\u2019s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade and Festival, now in its 38th year. Starting at University Avenue and Normal Street, the Parade takes place Saturday, July 21 from 11 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"LGBT Pride this weekend","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}