Motor City Pride

**Norwalk** · June-05-10, 09:22 PM

You go'in?

**DetroitZack** · June-06-10, 07:11 AM

I will pass

DC48080 · June-06-10, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by Norwalk

You go'in?

Going where? What is it?

**Pam** · June-06-10, 08:07 AM

http://motorcitypride.org/index_test.php

DC48080 · June-06-10, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Pam

http://motorcitypride.org/index_test.php

Thanks for the info Pam. I'll have to pass, not my kind of thing as I don't play on that team.

But if you're going I hope you have an enjoyable day.

**MDoyle** · June-06-10, 11:22 AM

FYI you don't have to be gblt to goto a Pride parade. Nor does going to a Pride parade make you gblt

Buy American · June-06-10, 01:19 PM

Motor City is Detroit....this parade is in Ferndale.

**Stinger4me** · June-07-10, 10:28 PM

Maybe they could march to Palmer Park. There was quite a collection of "team players" back in the day.

**terryh** · June-09-10, 11:53 AM

My wife and I went as we live in Ferndale and enjoy the colorful ecclectic crowd that congregates at pride fest.....not as many hetero couples as last year. I realized what a non threatening crowd pridefest draws...didnt feel uptight or concerned about accidently bumping someone and getting an antagonistic reaction from some immature jerk who didnt like how I said excuse me...much mellower crowd than some of the angry small town-suburban-city festivals that I have attended full of fights and open displays of contempt.....

**bailey** · June-09-10, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Stinger4me

Maybe they could march to Palmer Park. There was quite a collection of "team players" back in the day.

until they were run out of the city. There is a reason Ferndale is the [[barely) gayborhood for the Metro area.

ferntruth · June-09-10, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by bailey

until they were run out of the city. There is a reason Ferndale is the [[barely) gayborhood for the Metro area.

Please stop posting on topics you clearly know NOTHING about, Bailey. Seriously.

**bailey** · June-10-10, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by ferntruth

Please stop posting on topics you clearly know NOTHING about, Bailey. Seriously.

What exactly did I say that was false? The gays, like many in detroit, were run out by rampant crime and lack of police response. Many will say the lack of police response was, in the case of the Palmer Park/6 mile area, a command decision based on the make up of the residents. So, like everyone else with the means and ability to get out in the 70s and 80s, the businesses migrated out of the area and up Woodard and the people went with them ...or left the area entirely.

What remains of what was [[reportedly) a vibrant gay community is a couple of gay bars shotgunned around town in seedy areas [[a poster who, iirc, was banned from here has a lovely photo tour on the Site That Shall Not Be Named) and a blue collar bedroom community that wasn't entirely hostile to gays living there.

Ferndale..as nice as it is... is a pretty poor excuse for a "gayborhood". a community center and two gay friendly bars, does not make a gay ghetto. And a gay pride that is basically in a parking lot, is a bit sad for a metro area that claims 4.5 million people.

**fooddood** · June-09-10, 12:52 PM

Buy American, thanks for making that distinction before the lawyers had to get involved. It’s important that municipal lines be identified and defended lest someone think the city and the suburbs were in some kind of cooperative accord.

I didn’t go to the festival but I live nearby. My neighbor had to call the cops on Sunday after a very loud and drunk young man, even after being confronted, walked off with the ‘Slow Zone’ sign from the front of my house in broad daylight. They were there in minutes to waterboard the perpetrator.

Last year, another neighbor was beaten by a group of lesbians. Kind of funny since it wasn’t me. And it’s possible that she had it coming.

I have nothing against the LGBT community, I live in Ferndale. But it seems that too many people get carried away at this thing. In contrast, the DIY fest is in my backyard and, with a weekend full of bands and a huge beer tent, I haven’t seen these problems.

**terryh** · June-09-10, 03:30 PM

lol@foodood! Uhm I think all in all the crows that attends pride is very safe-the police presence required to protect attendees from outside hostility....

**EastsideAl** · June-09-10, 06:11 PM

I used to go to it back when it was in the city, as I had a lot of friends who were involved in the gay community and in organizing the festival and I'm a big supporter of equal rights for all. As a habitue of the now long-gone Bookie's I also used to spend a lot of time in the neighborhood. It's great that it's still going on, but kind of a shame that it's no longer actually in Detroit.

I see, however, that the Black Pride Society will be sponsoring its own march on July 17th and festival on July 24th in Detroit's traditional gay neighborhood of Palmer Park as part of its Hotter Than July event.