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Sunday's parade was also broadcast online, as it has been in prior years. The online flag raising had more participation than the typical in-person event, so PS Pride plans to continue live-streaming it each year. In 2020, instead of hosting the typical pride parade, PS Pride played recordings of parades from previous years on Facebook and live-streamed the annual Pride Week rainbow flag raising. Parade-goers celebrate the return of the Palm Springs Pride Parade in downtown Palm Springs, Calif., on November 7, 2021. Streetbar's founders, Dick Haskamp and Hank Morgan, created a tradition of using events to bring the LGBTQ community together to raise funds for local organizations like the LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert and the Palm Springs Animal Shelter.
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Streetbar, which opened in 1991, was the first gay bar in Palm Springs and is the longest-operating LGBTQ bar in the Coachella Valley. The iconic gay bar Streetbar served as the "community grand marshal" of the parade. Men in leather hawked drink specials outside downtown bars, and hundreds watched the event while eating on restaurant patios. Many other local businesses and organizations had a presence in the parade a group with Planned Parenthood received loud cheers as they marched by, while Wang's in the Desert, a Palm Springs restaurant, mounted a red-and-yellow dragon's head on the back of a truck. “But our group is high-energy even without the parade.” “It’s high-energy,” he said of the parade atmosphere after the year hiatus. Behind him, his organization had decked out a white truck with rainbow flags and balloons. Tedd Foley, the club president of a gay and lesbian square dance group in Cathedral City called Boots in Squares, wore a pair of blue butterfly wings, a nod to new beginnings and “breaking out of the cocoon” after COVID-19. The square dance group Boots in Squares participates in the Palm Springs Pride Parade on November 7, 2021.