Oakland Pride returns with a vengance--and lots of parties

Published on Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Last updated on 07:37AM, Monday, September 6, 2010
Oakland Pride returns with a vengance--and lots of parties

Oakland  Pride is back!

After a six year hiatus, the festival will re-ignite in Uptown Oakland this Sunday, Sept. 5. This year's big attraction? Grammy award winning artist Chaka Khan will perform on the international stage.

Also this weekend, be sure to experience:

  • Everybody Dance Now! Seriously, you better dance because Martha Wash will be featured on the Pride Stage. Also on this stage you'll find Yo-Yo, God-dess and She, Caravanserai, Valerie Troutt, Blair Hansen, Dahrio Wonder and the Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus.
  • Get your party on ... early. Saturday is Northern California’s largest weekly hip-hop and R&B party at Club Rimshot, 510 17th St. in Uptown Oakland.
  • On Sunday, in addition to the Pride festivities, three parties will be jumping off: Good Times, Hella Gay and Temptations. Good Times is held at the Den, 1912 Telegraph Ave.; Hella Gay is just down the street, at 1928 Telegraph Ave.; and then there's the fun at 510 17th St. for Temptations.

Sow your wild gay oats, proclaim your same-sex devotions and shake your tail feathers till they fly free into the queer sky - and stay safe.

 

 

About

Tehea Robie is a contributing writer to Oakland Local, a novelist and a spoken word artist. She loves genre bending, gender benders and interactive media tools. She was a finalist for the 2005 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers; she's been published in Rad Dad, Five Fingers Review, Controlled Burn and various sites online. She composes her poems by heart, without writing them down and has been featured at venues all around the Bay, such as the 2009 Nectarena stage at San Francisco Pride, I Am A Man Fundraiser and ShePeoples. Tehea was raised by an exquisite, fierce, working-poor mother. She received her MFA in Writing and Consciousness.