New Orleans authorities held a news conference Thursday to say extra officers would be on duty. “This year, they have to go through security,” Pollock said. Organizer Debra Pollock said in past years, the festival area was fenced in overnight, and when parade-goers arrived, they threw open the fences and people swarmed in for dancing and other performances.
In Denver, authorities set up security fences, bag checks, and police rode Segway scooters and walked with dogs. Security was tight at events over the weekend. Crowds estimated at several hundred thousand attended a two-day festival in front of Denver’s city hall. Spain Monkeypox Outbreak Linked to Pride Festival & Gay Sauna.
DENVER - People in wheelchairs, walking on stilts and riding rainbow-decorated motorcycles turned out for gay pride events over the weekend, including participants in a Denver parade who carried posters of the names or faces of the victims who died in last weekend’s attack on a nightclub in Florida.Ībout 2,000 people took part in Denver’s PrideFest parade through town to Civic Center Park on Sunday as hundreds lined sidewalks. En route to their engagement party, Kit and John took a detour to explore the gay offerings in New Orleans.
