Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell speaks to the crowd at the beginning of the Pride Awareness March on Saturday, June 17, 2006.  Click on the image to see other photos from PrideFest posted on the Gay & Lesbian Community Center website. 

For those of you with great suggestions on how to improve PrideFest, you can find information on joining the PrideFest Committee.  That would be the most effective way to actually make Pride more queer-friendly, more political, more-woman friendly, more youth-friendly, more vegetarian friendly, more low income friendly, recruit more pride merchandise venders, diversify the entertainment, increase the activities ... and the whole host of other things I have heard people complain about over the past weeks. 

Or you can continue to complain and be part of the problem.