Long Beach Post Shares What to Know for Pride Weekend 2024

Pride weekend touches all of Downtown, not only the people who come through the festival gates. Ahead of our 41st annual celebration, the Long Beach Post published a practical guide for everyone: Teen Pride, the festival at Rainbow Lagoon, the parade on Ocean Boulevard and the road closures that come with it. Coverage like this helps our neighbors, Downtown residents and businesses plan their weekend, and we are grateful for it.

After two years of celebrating Pride in the summer, Long Beach’s second-largest citywide event, the Pride festival and parade, will be held this weekend, returning to its May roots.

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Teen Pride

The weekend opens Friday night with free Teen Pride at Rainbow Lagoon from 4 to 9 p.m., featuring drag shows, DJs, vendors, booths, food and more.

Festival

The festival runs 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19, 2024, at Rainbow Lagoon, 386 E. Shoreline Drive.

• General admission: $40 per day
• VIP: $125 per day, with perks including luxury restrooms, a shaded lounge area and a “chill” zone

Entertainment spans multiple stages with country, hip-hop and dance performances. Headliners include Saucy Santana and Reyna Roberts on Saturday and Ivy Queen and Valentina on Sunday, and Long Beach’s own Jewels performs both days.

Attendees are encouraged to use public transportation. Public parking is available along Shoreline Drive and in garages near the Aquarium, Marina Green and Shoreline Village.

Parade

The parade runs Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon along Ocean Boulevard between Lindero and Alamitos avenues. This year’s theme is “The Rhythm of the Rainbow.”

The parade on Sunday morning will include more than 130 local organizations, grand marshals, dancing, costumes, music and more.

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The 2024 Grand Marshals include:

• Past Long Beach Pride board members
• Celebrity Grand Marshal: Saucy Santana
• Media Grand Marshals: Annabelle Sedano (NBC4) and Enrique Chiabra (Telemundo 52)
• Marilyn Barlow Grand Marshal: Irene “DJ Irene” Gutierrez
• Robert Crow Grand Marshal: Robert Cano
• Judith Doyle Grand Marshal: Dykes on Bikes
• Bryan “Whitey” Littlefield Community Bridge Building Grand Marshal: Evan Braude
• “Morris Kight” Political Grand Marshal: Stuart Milk (Harvey Milk Foundation)
• Dr. Robert Garcia Youth Grand Marshal: Kelly Melvin

Road Closures

No parking from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday on Ocean Boulevard from Redondo to Atlantic avenues, including the immediate side streets on the north and south sides. Street closures on Sunday:

• 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Ocean Boulevard between Redondo and Lindero, including side streets
• 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Shoreline Drive between Ocean Boulevard and Shoreline Village Drive
• 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Ocean Boulevard between Lindero and Atlantic, including side streets
• 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Alamitos Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and Broadway

How to Watch

NBC4 and Telemundo 52 will broadcast Sunday’s parade, with coverage at nbcla.com and telemundo52.com, on the free NBCLA and Telemundo 52 mobile apps, and on the stations’ free local news streaming channels, NBC Los Angeles News and Telemundo Noticias California.

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