Pride season is here. The throngs and thongs came out to celebrate Long Beach Pride last weekend, which included a festival, parade, and pool party. Salt N Pepa and Patti LaBelle headlined the event, which drew more than 80,000 spectators from all across Southern California–and all over.
Scroll down for a sampling of pictures from the weekend, and see the full gallery over at GayCities…
Photo credit: Strongest Link
Xzamilio
Looks, fun, but like a kidney stone, I’ll pass.
ramonromano
It wasn’t that warm in Southern California this past weekend..
David Andrew Roubideaux
How awesomely funn! :)’s
Captain Obvious
Call me a prudish southerner but I don’t understand why everything in California has to be so publicly sexual. There has to be better ways to show your pride and have fun together without the sexual vibe.
wagnerwallace
@Captain Obvious: I agree.
mz.sam
@ramonromano: I absolutely agree, being that it rained two days prior. Besides, been there…done that!
Bob LaBlah
@Captain Obvious: Its to be expected. Muscle Mary’s “move” into the gym around February and don’t come out till right about now, Memorial Day weekend, to test the “reaction” to their “work of art”, if you get my drift. I have no problem with a twenty-something showing off their ass, abs, and ping-pong ball size biceps (its really to be expected of those who, for varying reasons, thought so little of themselves as kids) and such but what really sickens me are the ones who are in their forties or early fifties trying working out like they are in their twenties, dying the gray out of their beards, hair and PRAYING they can get away with being thirty-eight.
Trust me, I have yet to meet a Muscle Mary who is over forty. Interesting, huh? The last gay pride “parade” I went to was in NYC, 2002. I laughed at obnoxious looking queens all day and night without a break.
jason smeds
This just looks like a collection of body-narcissists who are being marketed to straights and not just gays. I mean, what’s the point of having the big-boobed woman there?
Have gay pride marches deteriorated to the point where they’re trying to be “all-inclusive” with regard to women and their boobs? Looks like it.
charmin88
Some of these comments on here are so closed minded and catty it’s not even funny. Why would women not be on the float. Lesbians do go to Pride as well its not just for the boys you know. Also there is nothing wrong with a 40 something year old working hard at the Gym or wanting to look good. It’s called “taking care” of yourself and being “healthy”. Anyway Happy Pride Month my LGBTQ family.Even to some of the haters that are in our community.
wpewen
@Captain Obvious: Take it for what it is: Firstly, Queerty shows this stuff constantly-the magazine is endless skin, and the writing well, you be the judge.
I’m a native Californian and rest assured, there was likely a lot more going on in Long Beach than weird body displays. Personally, I’m a young looking 50 something guy and MOST people, even younger, don’t look like THAT here. It’s just what Queerty wants you to see. They live on an island called Castro Street.
cheetah69
@Bob LaBlah: Maybe those “muscle marys” over 40 don’t wish to sit idly by and allow time and age make them look like time and age has done with it does. What’s wrong with older men working hard on their bodies and then showing them off? We live in a looks-obsessed society that praises everything “good-looking.” Why fault the guys for wanting to belong? To me, it would seem the bigger culprit here, if there has to be one, is the community itself.