It was a lovely day for a parade, and the Utah Pride Festival didn’t disappoint. SLUG Magazine is proud to support this community through direct action. Photo: John Barkiple
A hat and sunscreen kept Lead Designer Joshua Joye and Executive Editor Angela Brown safe and happy at 90 degrees under summer’s clear, blue skies. Photo: John Barkiple
Harsh sunlight flares when it hits a dusty lens, so Jo blows her dust away before shooting in the Utah Pride Parade. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG staffers passed out June’s beer-themed issue of SLUG Magazine during their march along the 200 South parade route. Photo: John Barkiple
There’s always time to chat with float buddies/neighbors while waiting for the starting gun at the Utah Pride Parade. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG’s 2016 Pride T-shirt featured a typewriter on the front and the slogan: “everyone’s my type” on the back. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG staffers and guests could “cut and paste” their shirts to suit their style. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG Editor Alexander Ortega hugs Rebecca Vernon before the parade. Photo: John Barkiple
With scissors and a vision, a boxy T-shirt becomes a charming dress. Photo: John Barkiple
A pre-parade regimen of warm-up lunges prevents any injuries that might happen during SLUG Mag deliveries. Photo: John Barkiple
After what felt like a long wait, SLUG staffers finally march in the Utah Pride Parade. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG Magazine’s parade presence features SLC’s GREENbikes—they’re available for rental throughout the Downtown area. Photo: John Barkiple
Cycling can change lives—just ask this member of SLUG’s parade posse. Photo: John Barkiple
SLUG staffers passed out hundreds of magazines to the thousands of screaming supporters along the Utah Pride Parade route. Photo: John Barkiple
Pride giveaways start to pile up along the parade route as a SLUG staffer passes out magazines. Photo: John Barkiple
The Pride Parade offers equality-minded creatives like SLUG writer and marketing team member Xena Jade a chance to bedazzle themselves in rainbow hues. Photo: John Barkiple
For marchers in the parade, the overwhelming spectacle of the colorful crowd is as video-worthy as the parade itself. Photo: John Barkiple
When he wasn’t passing out mags, SLUG writer and photographer Tyson Call shot colorful street style images on his cross-bodied Leica. Photo: John Barkiple
“Everyone’s my type,” designed by Hey Rooney, served as the slogan for SLUG Magazine’s pink parade shirts. Photo: John Barkiple
Barton Moody breaks into a pre-hug sprint as he delivers enameled pins to lucky parade route spectators. Photo: John Barkiple
Editorial Assistant Kathy Zhou rides an SLC GREENbike as she spreads some flower power along the Utah Pride Parade route. Photo: John Barkiple
It takes fierce realness to rock rainbow socks. The friends of SLUG Magazine aren’t afraid to represent their rainbow pride. Photo: John Barkiple
This lucky guy scored the last copy Death by Salt V in Executive Editor Angela Brown’s basket. His buddy raises his empty hands in disbelief. Photo: John Barkiple
A chance to score a vinyl copy of Death by Salt V whipped the crowd into a screaming frenzy. Photo: John Barkiple
Dozens of SLUG staffers and friends marched in the 2016 Utah Pride Parade in support of equal rights for all members of the LGBTQ+ community. Photo: John Barkiple
This pint-sized SLUG bud still has a few mags to pass out along the parade route. Photo: John Barkiple
This guy is arms-wide open to embrace his love for all things LGBTQIA and SLUG loves him for it. Photo: John Barkiple
It was a lovely day for a parade, and the Utah Pride Festival didn’t disappoint. SLUG Magazine is proud to support this community through direct action. Photo: John Barkiple
The 2016 Utah Pride Parade painted 200 South with a colorful palette of enthusiastic support for LGBTQ+ Utahns as supporters marched under a proud rainbow umbrella. The three-day Utah Pride Festival culminated in a Sunday morning parade filled with dozens of floats for thousands of spectators.
SLUG Magazine’s bevy of bikers and bumblers passed out magazines, sunglasses, stickers, enameled pins and Death by Salt V compilations. Vinyl drew the biggest reaction from the crowd—not that kind of vinyl, Death by Salt V on vinyl! It’s the fifth in a series of vinyl releases highlighting the best local music Salt Lake’s underground scenes have to offer.
SLUG staffers marched in uniform. This time it was pink T-shirts with a typewriter on the front and the slogan, “everyone’s my type,” on the back, designed by Hey Rooney. As always, a few staffers made creative alterations to these unisex, blocky shirts including opened shoulders, rolled sleeves and scooped necks. One young girl wore her shirt as a tiny dress.
As this pink procession marched along 200 South, the natural ebb and flow of parade dynamics would spread the marchers thin on the street, and then they’d gather in a thick, pink blob of SLUG Mag solidarity for all things LGBTQ+. SLUG cyclists spun tiny laps around the group as SLUG strollers walked among the crowd passing out tchotchkes.
With the legalization of gay marriage in place and more and more anti-discrimination laws enacted, the LGBTQ+ community enjoys unprecedented support, but the current debates over transgender citizens’ access to the bathrooms of their choice make it clear that the fight isn’t finished, and that continued support is needed now more than ever.
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