1.) This is the 18th year that Buffalo has had a gay pride parade. Buffalo Activists, energized by the April 1993 March on Washington, organized the very first Pride Parade going from Kleinhans Music Hall to Elmwood and ending on Allen Street near Main.
2.) The current Pride festival is held in Bidwell Parkway. There is no Bidwell Park in Buffalo. The grassy knoll is the divide in the parkway.
3.) Do not feed the Bears. They are already well fed. That is why they always win the float competition.
4.) The rainbow Pride flags first went up along the parade route in 1996. In fact that was the only year that the flags circled Niagara Square.
5.) Tip your bartenders both under the tents and at the bar. It's Pride- splurge!
6.) During the early seventies the first Buffalo Gay Pride celebration was organized by the Mattachine Society of The Niagara Frontier. In order to protect the participants the event was not outside and it was not on TV.
7.) Yes, we know that Drag Queens look different under the sun and in daylight. Don't tell them. They still believe their beautiful. Remember this is the Queen City and they are still fierce and dangerous in any light.
8.) The first post parade rally was 1995, on the steps of City Hall. This was the first year after the notorious fruit hater, the late former Mayor Jimmy Griffin had left City Hall. There was reason to celebrate.
9.) Chuck Gurney, the former WIVB-TV weatherman came out at Pride in 1996 when he hosted the post parade rally in Lafayette Square.
10.) The Christian protesters along the parade route are not from Western New York. They are actually from a small sect outside of Rochester. The Lilac City has better hateful Christians than Buffalo does.
— Staff
