{"id":324543,"date":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324543\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","slug":"we-deserve-to-know-why-the-long-beach-pride-festival-was-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324543\/","title":{"rendered":"We deserve to know why the Long Beach Pride Festival was cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor: I agree that, during this difficult time in our country, the cancellation of the Long Beach Pride Festival seemed reckless (\u201cBittersweet Pride: Joy at the Long Beach parade, outrage over canceled festival,\u201d<\/a> May 17). What I still want to know is this: What specifically happened? \u201cSafety\u201d is such a generic explanation to keep hearing.<\/p>\n

If some of these concerns existed, shouldn\u2019t they have been addressed and resolved 60 days ago? According to the city\u2019s account<\/a>, organizers failed to submit stamped structural engineering plans, detailed security plans and electrical infrastructure documents necessary to clear safety reviews. Yet the organizers say<\/a> they \u201ctried everything [they] could to reach a resolution with the City.\u201d<\/p>\n

The public deserves a clearer explanation of where the breakdown actually occurred.<\/p>\n

Dennis Snyder, Long Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I agree that, during this difficult time in our country, the cancellation of the Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38100,133706,8305,1409,7363,135072,2072,45798,131,133,132,135071,133268,58188,1562,66470,6162,3607],"class_list":["post-324543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-account","tag-bittersweet-pride","tag-cancellation","tag-city","tag-country","tag-detailed-security-plan","tag-editor","tag-joy","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-parade","tag-long-beach-pride-festival","tag-more-detail","tag-organizer","tag-outrage","tag-public","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}