'Our Pride Week calls on the community to gather and embrace our diversity, our resilience, and raise awareness of the collective power of the LGBTQ community,' says Ron DeHarte, president of Greater Palm Springs Pride. They are also stripped of their human and political rights and treated as third-class citizens. In countries where homosexuality is banned but not punished by death, 'offenders' face being flogged or imprisoned. Being gay in Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran is one of the most significant 'crimes,' and 'offenders' face death.
In addition, parader-goers will view the presentation of 71 flags each representing a country where it's illegal to be an LGBTQ person, including large parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, with a high intolerance of homosexuality. More than 400 mototrcyclists rev up for the San Francisco Pride Parade each year. Known as Dykes on Bikes from its inception in 1976, the group became San Francisco Dykes on Bikes Women's Motorcycle Contingent in 2003. 7 with the first appearance by the San Francisco Dykes on Bikes Women's Motorcycle Contingent, who will roll down Palm Canyon Drive for the first time in its 45-year history.
The Greater Palm Springs Prideparade will mark its return since 2019 on Nov.
