From The Editor: The Purple Press Previews Pride

Welcome to Lavender’s Twin Cities Pride Preview issue! We have everything you need as you make your preparations — festival map, vendor listings, et cetera — plus a preview of the new Stronger Together parade unit.

Beyond participating in the parade and festival this year as normal, I’d like to encourage you to give extra consideration to making a donation to Twin Cities Pride this summer in light of the funding deficit they’re currently facing. Donations support not only the parade and festival but also TC Pride’s year-round programming, including the new Pride Cultural Arts Center you may have read about in a previous issue of Lavender.

In addition to our Twin Cities Pride preview content, we have a smorgasbord of theater previews ahead of the summer season: “Cabaret” at the Guthrie, “A Pink Triangle” at the Phoenix Theater and four different shows at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

If that’s not enough to fill your calendar, keep an eye out for the debut of the Steve Lenius and Andrew Bertke History Collection at Twin Cities Leather. Full details are in our preview story in this issue, but I’d like to personally emphasize what an honor it is to Lavender to have longtime columnist Lenius be one of the namesakes of the exhibit.

I’ve put more than enough on your plates, and I won’t hold you up any longer. Happy Pride, enjoy the festival and anything else you have planned for the next two weeks! I’ll be back in July with another issue of Lavender that will be much better for your post-Pride hangover headache than staring at your phone.

Lavender has updated two articles from Issue 782 Summer Preview, “‘Dance or Die’ — To Minneapolis Choreographer Matthew Janczewski, Biology Is Not Destiny” and “Oh, What Beautiful Sights, Beautiful People and Beautiful Community — Get Ready for WorldPride DC/Alexandria!” to correct mistakes. Details on the corrections are listed at the end of each article online.