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The WEBB Party is one of several LGBTQ+-friendly Fiesta events that will return to full form since the start of the pandemic. Models show off the fashion designs of Agosto Cuellar during the 2012 Fiesta WEBB Party benefiting San Antonio AIDS Foundation. Miranda Garrison /Contributor file photo Show More Show Less 4 of4 William Luther /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 3 of4Ĭornyation is one of several LGBTQ+-friendly Fiesta events that will return to full form since the start of the pandemic. The rainbow crosswalk at North Main Avenue and Evergreen is about to get a whole lot more Fiesta color when the Battle of Flowers and Fiesta Flambeau parades roll through the urban center for San Antonio’s LGBTQ+ community. Tom Reel /Staff file photo Show More Show Less 2 of4
This year’s Fiesta Flambeau Parade will light up North Main Avenue, the heart of San Antonio’s LGBTQ+ community. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Skop noted all businesses on Main welcomed Fiesta organizers with open arms for the Battle of Flowers and Fiesta Flambeau parades. “I think it’s just another example of the fact that Fiesta is just for everybody,” said Fiesta Flambeau spokesperson and Fiesta volunteer coordinator, Linda Skop. He also noted that both Fiesta and the LGBTQ+ community in San Antonio reflect the fabric of the city in a vibrant and, yes, proud way. Salcido said hosting the Battle of Flowers and Fiesta Flambeau parades in the heart of the city’s LGBTQ+ community shows just how much the historically siloed population has come out of the shadows.
On : Texas Cavaliers select Fiesta 2022 River Parade Honorary Grand Marshal these two parades in particular coming through our neighborhood, which we fondly call our gayborhood, to me it’s kind of historic.” “For a long time and many, many years, the LGBTQ+ community has had youth parades and festivals and activities to celebrate our pride,” Salcido said. says to all Fiesta fans: Welcome to the gayborhood.
To which Pride Center San Antonio director Robert Salcido Jr. Most bars are open during the busy summer season between May and October, though a small number remain of them open in the winter towards the weekend.Call it a crossroads at the city’s rainbow crosswalk. Generally you'll find that most gay bars are generally painted with all colours of the LGBTQI community, and their friends, in mind. There is a mix of gay only places and gay/straight-friendly to men only bars.Ī small lament is that there aren't any specific lesbian bars, though Sunrise in Ibiza Town is a popular haunt.
The gay scene here is pretty wild, just like it is in many worldwide cities, but with that hedonistic free-spirited edge that Ibiza brings. San Antonio also has its own gay meeting point in the bar of its first and only gay-only hotel The Purple. As we've said previously, the island is very gay-friendly generally, though there is a good selection of gay bars here, mostly concentrated in and around Ibiza Town, where Calle de la Virgen and Calle Alfonso in the old port area are the main stopping points.įigueretas has a couple of gay bars, though many of its bars are pretty gay-friendly.