On Sunday, July 4 Kitsap Pride Network is organizing a contingent in the Bainbridge Island parade. Our group has always been well received and it’s a fun parade. Oh, and not too long either. Join in the parade or come out an cheer them on! Marcie is coordinating – check her post for details.

On Friday, July 9^th Pride Foundation marks 25 years of Giving Together and Building Community in the PNW. The event starts at 7pm. Fun Prizes and bingo will be called by yours truly and special guests. We’ll take a break for great desserts and coffee. Our local Pride Foundation steering committee hopes to make this a monthly event to raise money for scholarships and grants in our area. $10 Suggested donation. 18+

On Sunday, July, 11 there will be a Pride Pre Funk at the Hi Fidelity Lounge in Bremerton. From 4 to 8 we’ll have some great summer old school funk, disco and summertime favorites. Hi Fi will offer their Happy Hour menu for you to enjoy. No Cover. 21+

On Thursday, July 15^th Pride Foundation is honoring Ed and Delores Boyle in Port Angeles for their work for the LGBT community.

The main event this month is KITSAP PRIDE on Saturday, July 17^th from Noon to 5pm at Evergreen Park in Bremerton. They have a great line up on the stage, a growing list of vendors, a new layout for the stage and food area that surely will be a hit. This year’s theme is “One Heart, One World, One Pride.” Go check it out. Bring chairs, blankets and make it a day. The bouncy house and children’s crafts will return to “Kid Valley” and the youth from the Q center have a “Cirque de la Queer” experience planned. All Ages.

Red Star hosts the Pride Party at the Bremerton Eagles with DJ Dana Dub from Seattle dance spot Neighbors and the Seattle Eagle. Miss Tory Marchella and friends will be back with a great show! Recent crowds have been over 300 so this night should be crazy fun! Upstairs and downstairs are open for you.

Pride doesn’t finish there. Kitsap Pride Network is sponsoring a screening of “Stonewall Uprising” at the Historic Orchard Theater on Thursday, July 22 at 7pm. The opening night show will be a fund-raiser for Kitsap Pride 2011! Check out the trailer: http://firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising.html More info to come this was just confirmed today.

Kitsap Pride Netwok has organized an Election Night Party

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Hi Fidelity Lounge
2711 6th Street
Bremerton, WA

Many of us have Domestic Partner benefits riding on this vote. Many have waved signs, talked to friends and volunteered to make a difference.

Join the Approve 71 campaign on election night.

Enjoy complementary snacks, a cash bar staffed by the Hi Fi’s best, and music as we celebrate the hard work of so many people, organizations, and communities to approve 71. Election results will be streamed live throughout the evening.

We look forward to seeing you Tuesday!

Pride season is here.  I know many of you made it to Seattle this past weekend.  The ferry I was on was packed with pride goers.  I even got the ferry to wish everyone off to the parade to have a good time as we pulled in to Coleman Dock.  Next year we should have a pre-party on the morning ferry!  The parade was fabulous and the Pride fest at Seattle Center was nuts!  Up on the hill was crazy too.  Our two favorite DJ’s were spinning together at the Cuff Complex for Sunday’s Block Party.  Last year’s Pride Party DJ Martin “Funkybear” Petersen and this year’s Pride Party disc jockey DJ Matt Stands.  We are so excited to bring Seattle caliber DJ’s to you.  We work hard to create a club night that you would expect in a much larger city.  More than that we are proud at the response from you for turning out each month and every month. Kitsap Pride is Saturday, July 18th at Bremerton’s Evergreen Park.  This year’s theme is “Our Rights – Your Rights – Human Rights.”  Red Star is a major sponsor this year at $1,000.  This is where the money goes.  After expenses and some investments we give back to the community.  There is a great line up that will be posted soon at Kitsap Pride’s website.  Pride starts at noon and goes to 5pm.  Stop by the Red Star booth for fun & prizes!  We have a beautiful new t-shirt design that we expect to sell out of so get yours early!  The day doesn’t end there; at 9pm doors open for Red Star’s Pride Party!

This year’s party will be bigger and better that any year before!  We have so many surprises up our sleeves.  We expect to have well over 200 people this year.  The place will look swanky with exciting lighting and posh décor.  DJ Matt Stands, resident DJ at Seattle’s Cuff Complex, returns to spin the dancefloor into a frenzy like he did for our MAYDAY Party.  We’ll be at the Eagles again but don’t worry if you don’t recognize the place.  Cover is still only $5 and doors open at 9pm.  The door and bar are CASH ONLY.  There is a typical bar ATM downstairs and a Chase ATM located on the same block.  Susan will be rocking the bar again and keeping the lines down.  The Pride Party is 21 and over only.

Enter the Eagles upstairs at 205 6th Street.  If you drive, there is plenty of parking available in the area.  Most of it is free and the word on the street is that the nearby pay-lots are not checked that late.  The lot next to the Eagles on Washington is reserved for their members – the good people who allow us to turn their hall into the biggest gay bar around.

Michael, Brian & Jay

Kitsap County ACLU is sponsoring a speaker on the night of Jan. 26th (that’s a Monday) at 7:00 p.m. at the Eagle Harbor bookstore on Bainbridge Island. Hank Balson of the Public Interest Law Group will speak on the “State of LGBT Rights: Focus on Washington.

The ACLU is a long time supporter of Gay/Lesbian rights and we feel that this is an important civil liberties issue.