Rules, safety tips offered for Indy Pride parade, festival

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indy Satisfaction parade and competition are again. The competition returns to Navy Park for the primary time since 2019.

Hundreds of persons are anticipated to come back out for the occasions, so occasion organizers are providing guidelines and security ideas so that everybody can have a good time.

“It’s time and we want it. We actually do. I really feel like this time for it,” Jayne Walters, an Indy Satisfaction board member, mentioned.

The enjoyable begins Saturday morning with the Indy Satisfaction Parade on Massachusetts Avenue at 10 a.m. A whole lot of individuals will have fun the LGBTQ+ group and compete for awards together with greatest float and greatest adorned automobile. Then, one of many largest events of the yr — the Indy Satisfaction Pageant — kicks off at Navy Park, which begins at 11 a.m.

The leisure lineup contains reside music, two drag exhibits, and a drag queen story hour. There may even be a household enjoyable zone stage. Indy Satisfaction is partnering with Gate Ten Occasions and Parking for the parade and competition, which suggests individuals can park at 345 West McCarty road.

The parking zone will provide a free shuttle service.

“In the event that they’re coming to the competition, it drops them off a couple of block north, but when they’re ADA, then it is going to carry them proper to the entrance gate,” Walters mentioned.

Tickets to the Indy Satisfaction Pageant are $7 upfront and $10 the day of the occasion. Weapons, fireworks, coolers, grills, bikes, and pre-packaged meals, amongst different issues are prohibited. Anybody carrying a handbag and backpack ought to put together to have their objects checked.

“We now have three safety groups that we’re working with along with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division,” the manager director of Indy Satisfaction, Shelly Snider, mentioned.

Occasion organizers say they’re wanting ahead to to getting again to bringing individuals collectively to have fun and assist make a constructive influence.

“It’s actually nice to have the ability to come collectively once more, particularly with every thing that’s going throughout the nation and so many assaults on the LGBTQ group,” Walters mentioned.

“Lots of LGBTQ+ individuals have felt actually remoted throughout the pandemic and we’re hoping that they’ll all come out tomorrow and be with those that love them, in order that they’ll have fun in an area the place they are often their genuine selves,” Snider mentioned.

Occasion organizers say they’re additionally in search of extra volunteers to assist with meals, the household enjoyable zone, amongst different issues.