SAN DIEGO — Expect flags of all kinds, tons of people and lots of rainbows on the floats at the Pride parade Saturday.
"It's going to be really exciting this year, it is one of our biggest yet," Scott Paine with Kaiser Permanente Pride said.
Kaiser Permanente has celebrated San Diego Pride for more than a decade. This year, they are sponsoring CBS 8 as we air the parade live for the first time.
While we can't see this year's Kaiser float quite yet, Tri-lead for Kaiser Permanente Pride Scott Paine shared some details.
"Not only are we going to have a beautiful Kaiser Permanente truck that's going to be fully decorated in pride flags banners," Paine said. "We're going to have music, and we've had the biggest contingent we've ever had with over 170 people that are going to be marching."
While San Diego Black Pride is taking a different approach to a typical float this year.
"We want to try and stand out in a different way and be unique and really have a bit different of a creative lens to it," Jordan Daniels with SD Black Pride said. "So we actually have two golf carts and then a truck that will have our DJ, and that makes a bit smaller, but also get some bigger emphasis on the people we're walking with."
While it may be a smaller float, it is just as powerful.
"Seeing a group of Black folks taking up space in this mainstream thing is going to be amazing and powerful. I hope black folks are in the crowd will also feel like power themselves and feel joy themselves," Daniels said.
Both Kaiser and SD Black Pride are spreading the message of community, joy and pride.
"Reminding the LGBTQA+ community, that Kaiser Permanente is woven into the fabric every color that is on that rainbow," Paine said.
"It lets the community know that Black pride is here, that there is a strong and growing black queer and trans presence in San Diego, that we're at the helm of that and we're working diligently and constantly to build that," Daniels said.
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