Kitsap Pride 2015
Kitsap Pride is proud to announce the return of Kim Archer to the stage this year at 1:00pm to 2:30pm – bring chairs and/or blankets and enjoy the concert. This year we celebrate marriage equality, focus on foster parenting and rally for employment discrimination and transgender rights.
Dirty Beat Duo will take the stage at 3:30 for a dance party in the park.
40 vendors plus food, chocolates and Ice cream.
Main Stage Schedule
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Noon – opening music
12:10 Drag Performances
12:50 Greg Wheeler, Bremerton City Council President.
Steven Strachan, Bremerton Chief of Police
1:00 – Kim Archer Music
2:30 – Drag Perfomances
3:20 – Congressman Derek Kilmer
3:30 – Dirty Beat Duo – DJs Dancing in the park
5:00 – Close
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PRIDE 365
Kitsap Pride Network is excited to announce that we have adopted Interpride’s international theme for this year’s pride event. The 2013 theme is PRIDE 365.
InterPride is the international organization that ties Pride together globally. Members of the organization are dedicated volunteers who organize and work to put on Pride events all over the world.
We can celebrate the advances like Marriage Equality we have made over the last 365 days and rally towards complete equality for all LGBT people.
This year’s event will return to Evergreen Park on Sunday, July 21, 2013 from noon until 5pm. Volunteers are busy planning this year’s event. Join our mailing list to keep in touch or to volunteer.
Kitsap Pride ’12
Planning is coming together smoothly. Vendors are registering. Sponsors are signing on to support this great event. We are finalizing our entertainment line-up. It will be a great Pride Month in Kitsap. Up first is Pride Skate at Bremerton Skateland on Tuesday, July 10th at 7pm. Our Pride PreFUNK is Sunday, July 15th at the Hi-fidelity Lounge – a fun T-dance with DJ and dancing. Katrina Duall hosts her twice a month Kocktails in Hi-Fidelity with a special Mr/Miss Heart of Kitsap Pageant on Friday, July 20th. Saturday, July 21, Red Star presents PRIDE PARTY 2012 at Stoddy’s Bar & Grill located at 3050 Northlake Way Bremerton WA. And last but certainly not least is our Pride in the Park. Join us at noon on Sunday, July 22 at Bremerton’s Evergreen Park for a full day of fun in the sun! What do you think of this year’s poster?
Kitsap Readies for 2012 Celebration
The Kitsap Pride Network is gearing up for this year’s pride event. This year’s international theme is “Pride links us together.” This year our event returns to Evergreen Park in Bremerton on SUNDAY, July 22nd and will be kicking off at noon.
We’ll be posting information on how you can be involved in Kitsap Pride 2012 including vendor registration forms in the coming days.
Thank You to Our 2011 Sponsors
Special thanks to our 2011 Sponsors:
Red Star Events, Pride Foundation, Grindr, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, MOMS Pharmacy, Naturally 4 Paws, Kitsap PFLAG, Positive Solutions, Peninsula Mobile Veterinary Clinic, Kitsap Safe Schools, Kitsap Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Alternative Community Education Society, Rod Blackburn – Windermere Real Estate, Robert Gelder and Ameriprise Financial Services.
Kitsap Pride 2011 Logo
Thanks to Joanie Reynolds for creating this year’s artwork.
Volunteer with Pride
We’re looking for a few good people to help with the 2011 Pride event on Saturday, July 16th at Evergreen Park in Bremerton. It is a fun and rewarding way to get engaged in our local community. We need people to plan in advance, set up the day of the event, coordinate relationships with our sponsors and our vendors, manage the talent on the stage, organize our wonderful volunteers, and of course break down at the end of the day. There is also behind the scenes work (administrative and such) and more.
If you are interested in being a part of the 2011 team click here to submit your name.
We look forward to hearing from you and an awesome event this year.
Planning Underway for 2011 Pride
The date is set for Saturday, July 16th 2011 and Evergreen Park has been reserved. Our vendor application is online and we are looking for sponsors and donors to help make our event a success. We hope to announce a kick off meeting very soon to bring in volunteers for this year’s event. Stay tuned. Contact us if you would like to be notified of the meeting.
Kitsap Pride brings families
We received a wonderful article in the Bremerton Patriot Check it out.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/pat/community/99148834.html
Kitsap Pride brings families to Evergreen Park
By LYNSI BURTON
Bremerton Patriot Staff Writer
Jul 23 2010
For Thomas Oliver and Jeffrey Chandler, taking their 8-year-old son Zyreal to the Kitsap Pride Festival on Saturday was just another family outing in the park.
“We’re just like an old married couple,” Oliver said of he and his partner, describing weekly church outings and dinners with grandma. “This is probably the most gay thing we do every year.”
That sentiment was shared by other attendees of the Pride Festival at Evergreen Rotary Park, who said the celebration was Kitsap’s only recognition of gays and allies, heterosexuals who support equal rights for gays.
Elaine Priest, who came with friends and children, said the low-key and fun environment is why the Kitsap festival appeals to her.
“You see other people with their families,” she said. “That’s what I like.”
The event marked its sixth year at Evergreen Park — in the early years starting about 13 years ago, the festival was much smaller and took place in Seabeck and Port Orchard. Now the festival includes more than 40 vendors, play space and face painting for children, live music and a drag show and attracts up to 500 people, said Marcie Mathis, an organizer of the event.
Melissa Evans, who came with her daughter Amanda, said gay culture has become more open in Kitsap. About 10 to 15 years ago, people were not as comfortable expressing their identity, she said.
“It’s just not as taboo as it used to be,” Evans said. “I just feel a lot more open than I used to be.”
Nonetheless, the gay culture in Kitsap is not vocal and visible as what might be seen in Seattle, Amanda Evans said.
“We’re pretty open. It’s not to the point where you have to be out and loud,” she said.
Amy Parkhurst, who came with her family, said this was the first year she’d heard of the Kitsap Pride Festival and she wanted to show her support.
Playing with her young neice, Ava Wilson, near the children’s play area, Parkhurst said she also appreciates the family-friendly environment of Kitsap Pride.
“It’s great, we love it,” she said. “We think there should be a lot more.”