“HOW MANY OF you here are straight?” Drag Queen Miss Sandra St. James asked the crowd celebrating Pride at High Water Brewing in Lodi. Barely 20 hands went up as St. James responded, “That’s great. Now stay away from me, I have allergies.” The crowd broke into laughter, which continued for the next 20 minutes as she addressed the attendees.
Hundreds of people — young and old, dear and strange, queer and straight — gathered at Lodi’s High Water Brewing on Saturday for a third year in a row as they celebrated Lodi Pride, part of an annual country-wide celebration throughout June in recognition of Pride Month.
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