The Durango Pride Festival will be held this weekend, with a parade, family festival and “drag extravaganza” show Saturday and a parade-float down the Animas River on Sunday.
New York City was host to the first Pride march in 1970, one year after the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York. Often marked as the event that started the contemporary LGBTQ-rights movement, the riots between demonstrators and law enforcement in Greenwich Village lasted three days.
Pride was a political effort to express demands for equal rights and social justice that expanded throughout the AIDS epidemic and grew into the celebration of LGBTQ lifestyle seen today. Pride events aim to bring awareness to efforts to achieve full equality for all LGBTQ people.
Home Builders Association yard sale, 8 a.m., Three Springs Plaza, 175 Mercado St., 764-6000.
“A Celebration of Quilts” show and sale, 10 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., 749-5582.
Durango Pride Festival: Pride Parade, noon, Main Avenue; Pride in the Park family festival, 12:30 p.m., Buckley Park, 1200 Main Ave.; Kennedy Davenport’s Drag Extravaganza and after-drag dance party, 8:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive; www.4calliancefordiversity.org.
“A Celebration of Quilts” show and sale, 10 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave., 749-5582.
Summer of Sundays Music on the Lawn: Wolf Crossing, 1 p.m., Trimble Spa and Natural Hot Springs, 6475 County Road 203.
Durango Pride Festival River Parade, 1:30 p.m., Animas River, www.4calliancefordiversity.org.
