TRAVEL – A Weekend at the Third Largest Pride Festival and Parade in California: Long Beach Pride is the Goldilocks Size for Pride Festivals – Just Right

After two years of mostly virtual Pride festivals, it’s exciting to have a Pride season full of in-person gatherings again. While obvious choices might be major events in the big cities, there are of course many others as well that could be flying under your radar. Long Beach Pride was exactly that for me – I had no idea it was the third largest Pride festival and parade in California, attracting nearly 100,000 LGBTQ+ people and allies.

Almost everything I went to during my weekend in Long Beach was surprisingly within walking distance. I stayed at the Hyatt Centric Pike Place (a modern boutique…