It was a beautiful and wonderful weekend in Portland for “Pride Northwest”! The weather could not have been more perfect! We left the kids home overnight (with a special “babysitter”* 
) so my partner and I could have an overnight getaway while taking in the festival and the parade! 
It was definitely a weekend to remember for us! Here are some of our pics. from the festivities! 
Pride NW Festival on Saturday…
PRIDE NW parade on Sunday…
gay-pride
GLBT
*Oh yeh, our special “babysitter”?? Helga! After Helga’s big “hangover” Friday night, she was a good girl and went to Curves on Saturday morning–then decided it would be a better idea for her to stay home and join the boys in an X-Box marathon!
those pride soda pops look amazing, im jealous. glad you had fun!
Wish they had a parade around here. I don’t
think they even have one in Dallas. Last year
they had one in Austin and by the time I had
heard what day it was that day had passed. UGH!
I love the flags and the signs.
HA! Helga and the X-BOX marathon!
HUGS!!!!
It was a great weekend indeed queerunity!
Where are you located? Will your neck of the woods have a “Pride”?
Hey Laurie!!
I guess I didn’t even think about the fact that all areas don’t have a “Pride” close by. We missed it last year, but enjoy the chance to take it all in… and of course “hang on each other” in public! 
Thanks for sharing her!!
Helga has been quite the entertaining gal here!
{HUGS}!!
Do you know that with hubby sick, we went nowhere and did absolutely nothing. I was really really bummed (but don’t tell him!). We should have arranged to meet….but, then, that would have had to be cancelled!.
I’m really glad folks had a good time. We have already been told that this year’s parade is the largest Pride parade Portland has ever had, but still waiting for hard numbers on the festival.
It takes alot of work to put something like Portland’s Pride festival together and I have to say that the support from the community this year has been amazing! We had vendors and sponsors volunteering in between watching their own booths and folks who had come to see the festival end up signing up to volunteer over the weekend. It was great, and the help we had undoubtedly helped the festival to be such a success. Thanks to everyone for that, and thank you for bringing your joy to the festival. Even with the long hours, being able to be a part of that and witnessing the happiness and flat-out joy that people brought, is a huge part of what keeps us going and makes the effort worthwhile. I’ll repeat myself and, again, say thank you.
Debra
President
Pride Northwest, Inc.
This was a shameful event. My neighbor, who is gay, …[edited]… his hot tub! I never had a problem with him before, but the brazen behavior of these men was sickening and could of been seen by children! Yea, great. Celebrating this disgusting behavior with a parade is absolutely sickening. I can only hope all of you that think that this is such an awesome thing have your own children …[edited]… because they feel the community condones it, and see how you feel then.
Hey Lewis! Don’t you hate it when “the creeping crud” pops in for a visit on a beautiful weekend when you would rather be out enjoying the weather and events? Sorry to hear of the sickies at your house.
Hope you both have recovered at this point! Yup… if there _had_ been a plan to meet, it would have been called on account of sickness. 
Take care you two!
Oregonian37: Hey Debra! I didn’t know you were the president of Pride NW, but how cool! We really enjoyed it! We missed GirlMax and Curve as vendors this year, but the overall experience is once of just enjoyment and freedom. Thanks for helping bring something so memorable to Portland!
“Morality…” Morality in and of itself IS a good thing. The event (Pride), in and of itself, was a good thing! In any culture–gay, straight, Christian, non-Christian–there will be people who behave with and without character. No one group has the corner on morality or immorality.
just looking to meet some new peeps..