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BASIC INFORMATION:
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REGISTRATION AND ASSEMBLY: 3:00-3:45PM, 9 December 2011
PARADE START-OFF TIME: 4:00PM
ROUTE: Quezon Park -> Colon St. -> Real St. -> Silliman Ave. -> Perdices St. -> Quezon Park
MATERIALS TO BRING (optional):
-Groups are encouraged to bring materials on HIV/AIDS, LGBT Rights, and the like.
-Placards on HIV/AIDS awareness, LGBT Rights awareness (Please try to keep printed messages as 'love-filled' as possible. Love, after all, is the ultimate retaliation to hate and discrimination.)
* Please DO NOT bring RH Bill materials. As much as this is also our advocacy, this Parade is being funded by the City Government. We will organise another venue for RH Bill advocacy, should this be your advocacy too.
-Rainbow flags/flaglets
CLOTHING: From statement shirts to costumes with wings and scepters...it doesn't matter, really. Be loud and proud!
PARADE MARSHAL TO CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION: 09269626715 (Michael Victor Panuncillon)
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PARADE INFORMATION YOU SHOULD KNOW:
The Dumaguete Pride Parade is not a standalone parade. The City Health Office has allowed for a Pride Space in the City's annual World AIDS Day Awareness Walk. This has been negotiated with the City Health Office by Ladlad Negros Oriental Coordinator, Michael Panuncillon.
It is a wonderful start for Dumaguete's LGBTs to take to the streets and show WE ARE HERE AND WE WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR. Although the entire Parade is not exclusively ours, our visibility in the Parade will force the City Government and fellow Dumaguetenos to be confronted by our existence. Our visibility and our demands for equal rights and protection will hopefully surface the prejudice and discrimination we have all experienced. The Pride Parade will hopefully provide a venue for us to formally and informally negotiate Safe Spaces for us in the community and, perhaps, lead to negotiations on a City Ordinance on Anti-Discrimination based on SOGI.
Invite your straight allies (friends and families) to march with us on December 9! It takes courage to come out. It takes even greater courage to take our cause to the streets. We have lived with discrimination and prejudice in silence for too long. Courage is what it takes to start a revolution. Our first Pride Parade will be the start of bigger and grander Prides to come in Dumaguete.
Lesbian writer and activist Rita Mae Brown once declared in a speech, "No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who do not love anybody."
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