“But the majority of the people will be wearing masks because we’ll be encouraging that.” I would assume that some people on the floats, if they're separated from each other, will probably not be wearing masks,” he said. “Most people who are marching will be wearing masks. Horwich said parade participants will set the tone for spectators on the sidelines. I’m not sure how many of those people will be the kind of people that come to our Pride, but I guess we'll find out.”
But there will be some people who refuse to wear a mask. We're encouraging, encouraging, encouraging mask-wearing as much as we possibly can. But yes, it starts with people at the parade lined up down the street. “Of course, they're hopefully going to be very spread out. An estimated 140,000 attended the most recent in-person festival in 2019. The first festival in 2009 attracted more than 15,000 spectators. Miami Beach Pride usually is held in April. 10 through 19, is the first held in person since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. “All of our staff and volunteers will be vaccinated, or they will be masked completely for anything they do inside or outside.” “We need to remind them, we need to encourage them,” Pride committee chair Bruce Horwich said. That’s the message delivered by the Miami Beach Pride committee, weeks before its first COVID-era festival and parade – when tens of thousands of LGBT people could show up to celebrate along Ocean Drive.