{"id":16629,"date":"2014-06-04T02:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16629"},"modified":"2014-06-04T02:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:48:33","slug":"demi-lovato-rides-west-hollywood-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/demi-lovato-rides-west-hollywood-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Demi Lovato Rides @ West Hollywood Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xstreet.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actress and singer Demi Lovato is Grand Marshal of the West Hollywood Pride Parade\u00a0on Sunday, June 8, 2014, part of\u00a0 the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/west-hollywood-pride.html\">Pride Parade &amp; Festival<\/a> celebration June 6-8, 2014. The\u00a0City of West Hollywood launches the festival with a\u00a0community open house\u00a0and\u00a0live entertainment\u00a0on\u00a0June 4\u00a0\u00a0from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. This free kick-off event officiated by Christopher Street West and West Hollywood Mayor John D&#8217;Amico takes place at West Hollywood Library, 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard and West Hollywood Park, \u00a0647 N. San Vicente Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>30% of West Hollywood&#8217;s population is gay, but the city is recognized more as the birthplace of rock\u00a0\u00a0for bands launching careers\u00a0in clubs such as\u00a0Roxy, Troubador and Whiskey a Go-Go. \u00a0The Who\u00a0and every band that\u00a0made it in the 60s &amp; 70s\u00a0performed in WeHo\u00a0night clubs. Some checked in and stuck around for months\u00a0at what used to be the\u00a0Hyatt Hotel, now called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/hotels\/west-hollywood-andaz.html\">Andaz<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Keith\u00a0Richards of \u00a0The Rolling Stones threw a TV out a window; \u00a0Jim Morrison of The Doors was evicted by management for hanging out a window by his fingertips, as he dangled over the pavement. At the Pride Festival bands are a big part of the entertainment with acts such as The Bangles performing in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>If you live the Central Valley there&#8217;s also a\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/pride.html\">Pride Festival<\/a> in Fresno this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and singer Demi Lovato is Grand Marshal of the West Hollywood Pride Parade\u00a0on Sunday, June 8, 2014, part of\u00a0 the annual Pride Parade &amp; Festival celebration June 6-8, 2014. The\u00a0City of West Hollywood launches the festival with a\u00a0community open house\u00a0and\u00a0live entertainment\u00a0on\u00a0June 4\u00a0\u00a0from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. This free kick-off event officiated by Christopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}