{"id":25162,"date":"2021-06-22T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000020885"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:13:58","slug":"local-businesses-entertainers-celebrate-pride-month-with-virtual-taste-of-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/local-businesses-entertainers-celebrate-pride-month-with-virtual-taste-of-downtown","title":{"rendered":"Local businesses, entertainers celebrate Pride Month with Virtual Taste of Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DLBA) is honoring Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community with their virtual Taste of Downtown celebration Friday, June 25.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour live stream, hosted by award-winning drag entertainer Jewels, will feature LGBTQ-centric business tours, cooking demos, safe space discussions and more, culminating in a drag show finale by Jewels and The Brunchettes from Hamburger Mary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to continue supporting our local LGBTQ+ community as well as create programs that highlight the diverse business ecosystem in Downtown Long Beach,\u201d Justine Nevarez, DLBA Special Projects Coordinator said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s also super exciting to have the fabulous entertainer, philanthropist and drag queen extraordinaire Jewels as our guest host in what will no doubt be an engaging program. As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease, we hope to bring back the popular in-person Taste of Downtown event at the appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To watch the free live stream on Facebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/494485015001021\">click here<\/a>. The program is from 6-8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Program schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6:00 \u2013 6:10: Master of Ceremony by Jewels<\/li>\n<li>6:10 \u2013 6:20: LGBTQ+ supportive brands walkthrough by Hi-Lo Liquor Market<\/li>\n<li>6:25 \u2013 6:35: Salon Tour and LGBTQ+ safe space discussion by Den Salon<\/li>\n<li>6:40 \u2013 6:50: Long Beach bike share program and maintenance with Pedal Movement<\/li>\n<li>6:55 \u2013 7:05:\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">Tour and cooking demo with L&#8217;Opera Ristorante<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>7:10 \u2013 7:20: Pineapple fried rice and coconut panna cotta cooking demos by Thai District<\/li>\n<li>7:25 \u2013 7:35:\u00a0Meet the LGBTQ+ Maker: Juan Martinez of PaiselyPRO with MADE &amp; Elinor<\/li>\n<li>7:40 \u2013 7:50: <span dir=\"ltr\">Pride Lifeguard Tower Painting Tutorial with Brushstrokes + Beverages<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>7:50 &#8211; 8:00: Drag Show finale with Jewels and The Brunchettes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To the uninitiated, Taste of Downtown has been a popular, annual food and drink festival where locals could roam through lines of pop-up tents to sip and taste the offerings of dozens of local bars and restaurants in Long Beach. The celebration pivoted to an online platform at the outset of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10000046766\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/22125432\/taste_of_downtown_pride-1110x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1110\" height=\"581\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-hour live stream, hosted by award-winning drag entertainer Jewels, will feature business tours, cooking demos, and safe space discussions, culminating in a drag show finale by Jewels and The Brunchettes from Hamburger Mary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":71619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[457],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[8767],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-taste-of-downtown","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}