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It's that time of year and people are confusing Portland with Portland. Here in Portland, we renamed Pride Northwest to Portland Pride. So now the names of the two events on different coasts are Portland Pride and Pride Portland. And naturally people assume that our pride is in June, which is isn't, so they make plans around the wrong one.
On top of all the existing problems, why did we change our name to make it more confusing?
I should make a bingo card with things like 'people assume we have two rival Pride events in the same city and want to know which to attend'
Just fucking call it PDX Pride. The PDX thing started as a was to disambiguate the two when talking online. Pride Northwest was confusing because the name seems more appropriate to Seattle or Vancouver or Chicago. We have a really popular and commonly used nickname to deal with this specific problem, but we literally can't do one logical or non-confusing thing when it comes to Pride.
On top of all the existing problems, why did we change our name to make it more confusing?
I should make a bingo card with things like 'people assume we have two rival Pride events in the same city and want to know which to attend'
Just fucking call it PDX Pride. The PDX thing started as a was to disambiguate the two when talking online. Pride Northwest was confusing because the name seems more appropriate to Seattle or Vancouver or Chicago. We have a really popular and commonly used nickname to deal with this specific problem, but we literally can't do one logical or non-confusing thing when it comes to Pride.
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