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Written by Lucky Tomaszek, Staff writer
Jun 30, 2010
Pride Alive features a full schedule of entertainment. – Photo: Courtesy of Pride Alive
On Saturday, July 10, the third annual Pride Alive will paint Joannes Park in Green Bay ROYGBIV. In addition to food and beverage vendors, the festival features a full schedule of entertainers, including Flame Shark, The Charles Walker Band and Green Bay-based Glamarama Cabaret. Two nationally known acts, comedy duo Deven Green and Joel Bryant and dance/house musician Ultra Nate, will round out the day’s performance schedule.
Pride Alive grew out of a series of town-hall meetings in northeastern Wisconsin held by Fair Wisconsin in the aftermath of the state’s same-sex marriage ban. “We painstakingly reached out and said, ‘This is your Pride - what do you want it to be?’” says Andrew DeBaker, co-chair of New Pride, organizes the event.
The festival draws visitors from the local area as well as the U.P., Milwaukee and Madison – and even as far away as Chicago and Minneapolis, according to DeBaker. Nearly 40 percent of the guests who were surveyed at the event last year identified as straight allies, he says.
“We bill it as an LGBT event, but it’s really become a celebration of diversity, DeBaker says. “We are all a little too something: a little too short, too tall, too skinny, too fat, too white, too black, too gay, too straight. We’re all different, unique. That’s a good thing. That’s awesome.”
