Sacramento Pride March and Festival returns after 2 years

Preparations are underway at Capitol Mall, as stages and tents have been set up, hours away from Sacramento Pride March and Festival 2022. Crews have been working during the evening, trying to avoid the sun and hot temperatures.Thousands are excited to gather after COVID -19 forced the event’s cancellation in 2020 and 2021, in what they call their safe space for LGBTQ youth. “I think just knowing your resources and being a good ally to your fellow community members. Knowing that mental health is a stigma, but even more so, with LGBT folks,” said Jake De La Hoya, a Sacramento resident who also works on mentally health.It’s not only a time for celebration, but a moment to raise awareness.Manny Romero, a transgender woman herself, says that members of the LGBTQIA+ community face some kind of discrimination almost daily.After experiencing stigma firsthand and being underserved for years, she also now works in community health, providing support to those who are also transitioning.”There are great disparities in transgender healthcare, especially in the underserved community. There is a lot of transgender homeless; high rates of LGBTQ homeless,” Romero said. The Sacramento LGBT Center expects thousands of attendees during the event, which extends its hours from 11 am to 8 pm this year. Aside from the extra hours, more resources and services will be offered, including the Youth Family Zone for youth and families to find wellness and health information.You can still get tickets at sacramentopride.org and use SACPRIDE10 on single-day tickets or SACPRIDE20 on weekend passes for a discount, event organizers said. The two-day Pride festival isn’t the only one expecting a crowd.Security at the event will be checking bags at the entrance.Midtown’s Lavender Heights businesses are prepped up this Friday for one of their biggest weekends.Badlands and Depot general manager Jonathan Cameron says they’re ready for an influx of people and spent the morning prepping outdoors to make enough space for everyone.”We never put a number on it because, for us, we know that people are going to enjoy this area. 20th and K have such good energy, so we know that we’re going to get an influx of out-of-town people,” said Cameron.

Preparations are underway at Capitol Mall, as stages and tents have been set up, hours away from Sacramento Pride March and Festival 2022. Crews have been working during the evening, trying to avoid the sun and hot temperatures.

Thousands are excited to gather after COVID-19 forced the event’s cancellation in 2020 and 2021, in what they call their safe space for LGBTQ youth.

“I think just knowing your resources and being a good ally to your fellow community members. Knowing that mental health is a stigma, but even more so, with LGBT folks,” said Jake De La Hoya, a Sacramento resident who also works on mentally health.

It’s not only a time for celebration, but a moment to raise awareness.

Manny Romero, a transgender woman herself, says that members of the LGBTQIA+ community face some kind of discrimination almost daily.

After experiencing stigma firsthand and being underserved for years, she also now works in community health, providing support to those who are also transitioning.

“There are great disparities in transgender healthcare, especially in the underserved community. There is a lot of transgender homeless; high rates of LGBTQ homeless,” Romero said.

The Sacramento LGBT Center expects thousands of attendees during the event, which extends its hours from 11 am to 8 pm this year. Aside from the extra hours, more resources and services will be offered, including the Youth Family Zone for youth and families to find wellness and health information.

You can still get tickets at sacramentopride.org and use SACPRIDE10 on single-day tickets or SACPRIDE20 on weekend passes for a discount, event organizers said.

The two-day Pride festival isn’t the only one expecting a crowd.

Security at the event will be checking bags at the entrance.

Midtown’s Lavender Heights businesses are prepped up this Friday for one of their biggest weekends.

Badlands and Depot general manager Jonathan Cameron says they’re ready for an influx of people and spent the morning prepping outdoors to make enough space for everyone.

“We never put a number on it because, for us, we know that people are going to enjoy this area. 20th and K have such good energy, so we know that we’re going to get an influx of out-of-town people,” said Cameron.

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