Galway Pride 2001

August 24-26

Programme of Events

Friday 24th August

**Official opening of PRIDE with special guest. Club PRIDE with
performances. Doors 10.00pm Venue: The Black Box £10/£8.

Saturday 25th August

*PRIDE PARADE Assemble 12.15pm, starts 1.00pm Eyre Square route follows Shop St, Hight St, Quay St, ending Fr Griffin Park.

*Post Parade Splash Fr Griffin Park, entertainment for 1 hour.

*Kareoke Strano Bar 8.00pm

*Rose na Mara ("Gay Galway's answer to the Rose of Tralee" :) The Black Box. Doors 9.30. Show starts with free cocktail @ 10.00 pm £10/£8

*followed by Club PRIDE

Sunday 26th August

*CRUISE on the River Corrib. Woodquay 10.00am £5/£4, child £2 family of four £10

*SILLY SPORTS Blue Diamonds vs. D'unbelievables, the Swamp, the Claddagh, 1.00pm

*PUB QUIZ Strano Bar 3.00pm

*SING-ALONG with guitars Strano Bar afte the Quiz

*BINGO Zulus Bar 5.00pm. Your hostesses Tammy Wantit and Eileen Dover

*THE END UP (Cabaret) The Black Box Doors 10.00pm £10/£8 surpirse guest ..followed by CLUB PRIDE

Tickets available from Town Hall Theatre 091 569777 also available @ door credit card bookings.

Note: to find Strano Bar/Zulus Bar: if you start at Jury's at the end of
Quay Street, cross the bridge, take a right, that's Raven Terrace, where'll you'll see Zulus Bar. em..then if you continue onf down Dominick Street, past Monroes, Roisin Dubh's, Taylors, you'll see Strano Bar on the corner. The Black Box Theatre is aroud the Woodquay area. or better still, not far from the Multiplex Cineman

USER REVIEW

As it turned out as soon as we got to Zulu we picked up a leaflet which told us everything we needed to know. Zulu and Strano were both good, but in a very different way than Dublin. Gubu they werent. But the people seemed to be in great form which gave a very good atmosphere, and it  wasn't hard to get chatting. Upstairs in Strano was probably my favourite, though I didnt manage to get onto a couch. Ah well, I'm well used to propping up bars anyway.

The launch party in Black Box night club was simply fantastic! I havent had such a good night in a long time. Great party atmosphere, good music, colourful stage shows and excellent lights! In fact I was smiling so much and having such a good time my mate kept asking me if I'd popped a pill when he wasnt looking :-) Well done to everybody involved. What was the story with the strip show though? Simulated straight sex seemed a bit  out
of place at Gay pride. Celebrate diversity I guess ;-)

Next day, after the aspirin, we headed into town for a mooch round the markets etc. Galway is so beautiful when the sun shines. We had a lovely chilled out morning and then moved on to Eyre Square for the march. I have to say well done to everybody on the march. Its a totally different thing to march down busy shopping streets in small numbers proclaiming your pride than it is to join the extravaganza that is the Dublin march.

So that was it. A quick - but very bland - pizza in Fat Freddys and it 
was off home again.

Sent in by Paul