Travel Key West Pride

Splashy pool parties and on-the-water adventures, in the wee small hours dance parties, a flicker for tutu-wearing competitors, an enchanting sweep premiere and a vibrant community make obvious are sandwiched between the attractions featuring in Key West Arrogance 2014. Set for Wednesday principal Sunday, June 11-15, the festival spotlights the all-accepting high-quality that has helped make Key West an internationally celebrated gay and lesbian go to spot. Key West Arrogance is to kick off with an all-welcome "Bow Ties & Buoyant" seek set for 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, at the established Island Back home Route, 1129 Fleming St. Hip the festival ruthless attendees can vie for the titles of Mr., Ms. and Miss Key West Arrogance at twilight pageants, or attire in a tutu to flicker in a frenzied 10k contain. Other festival attractions cuddle an established trolley squad showcasing Key West's LGBT heritage and hotspots, a marriage equality "meet and appreciated," daytime and in the wee small hours parties at local clubs and resorts, a "Ghosts & Gravestones" squad spotlighting the island's spookiest sites, pull out shows, a street open-minded on Key West's prominent Duval Road, a shopping soiree and water-sports activities ranging from snorkeling to kayaking.In the company of proper things to see is the Key West premiere of a sweep by certain Erin Davies. While her Volkswagen Loom was defaced with anti-gay graffiti so of its rainbow mark, she turned the down act into an inspiring odyssey and filmed her "fag bug's" rule to all 50 Coupled States. Arrogance attendees can view the subsequent documentary, "Fag Bug Disembark," meet Davies and learn how her rainbow ability has become a spur for equality. Accomplishments are set for 8 p.m. Saturday, June 14, poolside at Alexander's Guesthouse, 1118 Fleming St. The festival's end result is to be the all-welcome Arrogance March past down Duval Road, proper at 5 p.m. Sunday, June 15. The procession's opulent accompany is Rob Smith, an truly gay Iraq War veteran, LGBT certain, novelist and author of the memoir "Closets, Tussle, and Outlook Out: Outlook of Age as a Gay Man in the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell Legion."The make obvious typically features walking groups, a 100-foot rainbow make weaker, expensively bejeweled floats and untouchable. Everybody is invited to recreation -- whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, well-brought-up or transgendered -- to smudge Key West's fired up high-quality.