{"id":324759,"date":"2026-05-20T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:21:12","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-the-public-deserves-more-details-on-the-cancellation-of-the-long-beach-pride-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324759\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: The public deserves more details on the cancellation of the Long Beach Pride Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To the editor: I agree that, during this difficult time in our country, the cancellation of the Long Beach Pride Festival seemed reckless (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-17\/long-beach-pride-joyful-parade-meets-outrage-over-canceled-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:\u201cBittersweet Pride: Joy at the Long Beach parade, outrage over canceled festival,\u201d;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cBittersweet Pride&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If some of these concerns existed, shouldn\u2019t they have been addressed and resolved 60 days ago? According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-15\/long-beach-cancels-pride-festival-citing-lack-of-permit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:city\u2019s account;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;city\u2019s account&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/city-says-long-beach-pride-festival-was-canceled-permit-issues-parade-scheduled-sunday\/19114953\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:say;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;say&quot;}\" class=\"link \">say<\/a> they \u201ctried everything [they] could to reach a resolution with the City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The public deserves a clearer explanation of where the breakdown actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dennis Snyder, Long Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/story\/2026-05-20\/long-beach-pride-festival-cancellation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Los Angeles Times;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I agree that, during this difficult time in our country, the cancellation of the Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,63,25556],"class_list":["post-324759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-robert-gauthier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324759","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=324759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}