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Thousands of Bay Area residents gathered for the 8th Annual Oakland Pride Parade and Festival event on Sept. 10. <\/span><\/p>\n Celebrating unity, diversity and appreciation of LGBTQ people, numerous organizations and communities\u2014including a strong presence from the Latino community\u2014came together for the second Bay Area Pride event of the year<\/p>\n \u201cLatino community and culture are really important to me. My mother immigrated here from Nicaragua 30 years ago,\u201d said Stephanie Logia, a Women\u2019s March Bay Area Contingent member, who walked in the parade holding a sign that read: \u201cWe Still Have a Dream.\u201d \u201cSo I\u2019m here today to represent. With the recent news of [the] DACA program ending, it\u2019s really heartbreaking, students and workers having this additional stress to add on.\u201d<\/p>\n During the festivities, people ate, danced, shopped and visited different booths set up by the many participating organizations.<\/p>\n Andrew Navarro, Health Education specialist at the Tri-City Health Center, was a proud representative of both the Latino and LGBT community, and was happy to keep members aware of his organization.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re here representing the Latino community with our HIV prevention program,\u201d said Navarro. \u201cOur program is all about serving the Latino and underserved population. It\u2019s been around for over 20 years. We come out to Pride events a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Andrew Arias of Equality California, a Latino who is LGBT, was at Pride to help people register to vote. \u201cI feel empowered to represent a group that is mobilizing and making a big difference in communities of color,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Aside from members of organizations, regular festival goers were enjoying themselves with some beer and good company.<\/p>\n \u201cMy family and I are here today because we support equal rights. A lot of people don\u2019t understand they have the right to be whoever they want to be,\u201d said Jonathon Hernandez, general manager of Amici\u2019s Pizzeria in Dublin. \u201cI myself am not gay, but I have a lot of friends and family members that are, and I\u2019m here because I support equality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [su_slider source=”media: 35494,35496,35497,35498,35502,35501,35508,35506,35509,35505,35504,35499″ limit=”80″ link=”custom” target=”blank” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” pages=”no” mousewheel=”no” autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_slider source=”media: 29856,29857″ limit=”30″ link=”image” target=”blank” width=”700″ height=”460″ autoplay=”0″ speed=”500″][su_menu][\/su_slider] Thousands of Bay Area residents gathered for the 8th Annual Oakland Pride Parade and Festival event on Sept. 10. Celebrating unity, diversity and appreciation of LGBTQ people, numerous organizations and communities\u2014including a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":35497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3562],"tags":[14634,14636,4241,14638],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia-en","category-photo","tag-adelyna-tirado","tag-latinxs-en","tag-lgbt-en","tag-oakland-pride-en","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n