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It's a period where LGBTQ individuals have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. And Lopez said, right now, they're focusing on, on caring for their community. So as an organization and they're trying to offer as much as they can for everyone. They weren't having a parade and a festival and other people think it's too much too soon. Speaker 2: 04:11 Yeah, they told me that readiness is all over the map. And what did Lopez tell you about the demand for online and virtual events this year? As you said, keeping an online element this year to address some of those concerns. Speaker 1: 03:57 And COVID-19 effected everyone, including those who partake in pride and organizers decided to go with this hybrid model. And also there's a ton of pool parties at various hotels, all around town. And also one thing on my radar is for soccer fans. That's going to be on Saturday street, fair style. Escondido's hosting their first annual pride. That's gonna be on Sunday afternoon and also something cool is next weekend. That's outdoors at the San Diego youth services spring valley campus. That's Saturday evening, uh, for kids there's stuff too. There's going to be DJs and drag artists from RuPaul's drag race. There's also something they're calling pride at the park that said VA houses, outdoor park. There's a couple of VIP day ticket options still available. They're also doing a Hillcrest pride block party running Friday and Saturday afternoon, well into the night, but that that's mostly sold out. That's Friday at six, o'clock at the pride flag. So there's the spirit of Stonewall rally. Speaker 1: 02:49 And what else is going on this weekend as far as the in-person events
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And that's this, this hybrid format they're doing this year. And they realized pretty early on that the middle of the road option would be where they'd land.
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They said, as they looked ahead to this spring, the organization really had to come up with three budgets, one kind of for every stage of, of lockdown or full opening. And they also said that because major events like, like a parade just takes so much advanced planning.
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Yeah, one thing they said that struck me was they went from being a $4 million organization to being a $650,000 organization, basically overnight during the pandemic. Speaker 1: 02:01 You talked with the pride executive director, Fernando Lopez, they talked about all the planning and all the uncertainties that they experienced this year. They walked from Balboa park to Hillcrest and it's, it's kind of a far cry from the quarter of a million people that they see out for the parade on a typical year, but that's still something. And the resilience March had something like 16,000 people. Um, she Fest was actually the best attended year they've had for that program. Speaker 2: 01:31 Far? Yeah, so they kicked things off last weekend with Xi Fest and what they called their resilience March. And so this weekend is the big one with the spirit of Stonewall rally on Friday, and then the pride block party, but events like this have been going on all week. Julia Dixon Evans is part of the arts team here at KPBS and joins us to talk about pride 2021. And some of that uncertainty is lingering with no Comicon this summer, but another event that draws people from around the world is back with San Diego pride, offering a mix of in-person and online events to meet people at their comfort levels. July has traditionally been a month for some of San Diego's biggest events, but the pandemic cleared everyone's calendar last year. And joining me on this remote edition of the KPBS round table are KPBS arts, calendar editor and producer Julia Dixon, Evans, KPBS news, reporter John Carroll and Beth OCHA Mondo host of the KPBS cinema junkie podcast. I'm Matt Hoffman and the KPBS roundtables starts now welcome to our discussion of the week's top stories. And the final steel beam is in place a big milestone for the new stadium taking shape in mission valley and cinema junkie rebooted we'll hear from the host of the new KPBS podcast, all about the new movies. How organizers are balancing a mix of in-person and virtual events this year. Speaker 1: 00:00 This week on round table, we're focusing on arts and entertainment in San Diego, starting with pride weekend.