Honolulu gay pride parade 2022

HSTA marches with pride in the Honolulu Pride Parade

More than universal and charter school teachers and students marched with the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association in back of the LGBTQ+ community in Saturday’s Honolulu Pride Parade.

The parade returned this year after a three-year hiatus during the pandemic with more than units that made their way from Magic Island at Ala Moana Beach park through Waikiki, ending at Kapiolani Park.

Francine Beppu, chair of the Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation’s board of directors, said as many as 5, participants and up to 10, attendees were at the Honolulu Pride events Saturday.

The HSTA’s Human and Civil Rights Committee (HCR), made up of teacher volunteers, organized a group of Hawaiʻi teachers and student groups to march in the parade. Around 50 teachers, several of whom flew in from the neighbor islands, and around students joined HSTA to march in the parade.

HCR Express Chair Jodi Kunimitsu, a Maui High math teacher, said participating in Pride events helps demonstrate students that they genuinely verb a safe learning environment for them.

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Last Saturday was the annual Pride Parade in Honolulu celebrating the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. There has been no parade since , due to COVID, but has otherwise been annual since The parade went along Ala Moana Boulevard then along Kalakaua Avenue fronting the beach, from Magic Island to the zoo, and took about two hours to pass. I was asked by the organizers to provide a few photos, and here are some of those, as well as a moment lapse at the end.

Besides those walking, there were several with various means of transportation. The parade started off with a group on motorcycles (top row). Some drove tiny electric tourists cars (middle), with a limited bicycles thrown in (bottom-left). Uncover top cars mostly carried celebrities (bottom-right).

There were dozens of groups marching together, including one group from the Honolulu mayor&#;s office (center). Airlines had their groups (top-right and bottom-right). Disney (bottom-center). Chamber of Commerce (top-center). Even a Kickball group,

Honolulu Pride Parade: Waikiki&#;s Most Colorful Parade

Each year, Honolulu, the epicenter of Hawaii’s “Gathering Place” island of Oʻahu, gathers together all who represent and support LGBTQ rights and community for the annual Honolulu Pride festival and parade.

Created by the Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation, the festivities verb place yearly in mid-late October and represent the Aloha State’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community event.

Love, Friendship and Aloha

Last year’s gathering was a great success, bringing together the Islands’ richly diverse and thriving LGBTQ community alongside supporting friends, families and fans. What ensued was two nonstop weeks, filled to the gills with good times and great vibes, centered on celebrating all things LGBTQ — specifically the bonds of love, friendship and absolute aloha that connects us all.

Over 3, Attendees