On Thursday (March 12), the organizers of Los Angeles Pride announced what would have come as a shock just three weeks earlier: all of the planned celebrations around L.A.
Pride's 50th anniversary are postponed. But as anyone who's been paying attention to the flood of event cancelations and postponements amid the global coronavirus pandemic knows, moves like this are beginning to feel common, if not inevitable.
Like Austin, TX officials putting the kibosh on SXSW (one of the first major events to get axed), L.A. Pride's postponement was a result of government officials making a decision based on evidence from experts regarding the easily-transmittable, rapidly-spreading coronavirus.
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