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The 39th annual LA PRIDE Parade is expected to gather over 400,000 people this year and will feature over 125 parade entries including floats, bands, performances, marching community advocacy groups, smiling seniors, proud parents, out teachers and convertibles with honored guests. The parade will run west along Santa Monica Blvd. from Crescent Heights to Robertson Blvds in WeHo, starting at 11 a.m.

Machine Project is hosting a “Farewell to Analog TV” lecture and mixer tonight at 10 pm. Jason Torchinsky will talk about mechanical televisions, which will be followed by a countdown to the demise of analog TV. At midnight, all the old analog television broadcasts will stop, replaced by digital signals so all the TVs without converter boxes won’t work anymore. Machine Project will be gathering a pyramid of old TVs together for a countdown as they go to static, all at once.

A little slice of life in Los Angeles. Here's the well-known Attorney Gloria Allred, left, yelling at anti-gay protesters at the gay pride parade on Sunday. Moments later, she realized LAist Featured Photos contributor discarted and his hefty camera pointed at her...

                     

Last weekend LA was home to not one, but TWO dyke marches! If there's one thing dykes love, it's marching! We love marching too! And motorcycles! And music! And sexy women! LAist photographers Elise Thompson and Tom Andrews were on hand Saturday at Dyke March LA in Silverlake to catch all of the action.

       

Kicking off LA Pride Weekend, the 2008 West Hollywood Dyke March (the first of two lesbian cycle events) hit West Hollywood streets Friday night and was presented by the Lesbian Visibility Committee. The first Portraits of Pride photo gallery from this weekend's events, including the parade, can be viewed here.

-U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”