The day also includes a dog show, Put Your Paws Up, in which folks dress up their four-leggeds in rainbow garb and have the pooches show their best tricks performances by area talent including Kat Devlin, S.B. Performers include YouTube sensation Cazwell, who describes himself as sounding like “Biggie Smalls ate Donna Summer for breakfast” Morgan McMichaels, a popular drag performer who was in the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race reality television competition and Lunden Reign, a rising L.A.-based rock band who recently completed their first full-length album, American Stranger. The main attraction is the daylong Pride Festival, which offers entertainment, eats, and education. While Santa Barbara doesn’t boast those kinds of numbers (thank the heavens), our fair city’s Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF) still puts on great events annually in celebration of gay pride. In 2009, an estimated 2.5 million people filled the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, to participate in the city’s annual Gay Pride Parade.
