WolvHaven Pride

WolvHaven Pride
Overview
Loation(s)	WolvHaven City
Years Active	1
Inaugurated	June 27, 2020
Most Recent	June 26, 2021

WolvHaven Pride is the annual LGBTQIA+ pride parade in WolvHaven. The parade was first held in 2020 as lockdowns around the world due to the COVID-19 Pandemic caused real-life pride parades to be rescheduled or canceled entirely. The parade held in 2020 led to the server hitting its latest record of players online at a given time of 30, the server's maximum player slots at the time. The parade is held on a yearly basis, depending on the availability of members in the community during June.

History

WolvHaven's LGBTQIA+ community has seen a large amount of growth since 2017, with more players opening up about their sexualities. 2020's COVID-19 Pandemic led to a series of lockdowns in countries globally, and as a result, led to the postponement or cancellation of pride parade events in real life. WolvHaveners expressed interest in the organization of a virtual pride parade in the server, and in May 2020, it was announced that the server would organize the event in Fifth Haven.

Despite being organized in 2020, the server has shown its support for the LGBTQIA+ community previously. When the United States legalized same-sex marriage in June 2015, the server changed its logo back then to one with a rainbow, which was displayed on its social media profile picture and website.

From 2016 leading till 2020, the server also changes its server logo to a pink version to show its support to Pink Dot - Singapore's main LGBTQ event every year. However, being an international community, many members often confused the move with Breast Cancer Awareness. Prior to 2016, the server had also considered organizing a virtual Pink Dot, where participants would wear pink-dyed leather helmets and stand in a dot in WolvHaven's Central Park; similar to the real-life event. But these plans never materialized due to the server's then smaller player base.

Events

2020

Participants in the 2020 parade lined up together with wearing banners as hats to form a "PRIDE20"

The first WolvHaven Pride was held on 27 June 2020, 2PM UTC, mainly organized by Littledoggy2 and CrazySharkGaming. The parade was held in Capitol Island (Fifth Haven), and participants marched from City Hall to Parade Grounds (Fifth Haven), along the Boulevard at the center of the island. Participants lined up together with wearing banners as hats to form a "PRIDE20" banner, and they marched alongside floats that were constructed along the boulevard.

The event had all members of the community contribute. The iconic pastel-colored howling wolf with a heart logo was created by Teh_Red. Meanwhile, street decorations and banners were made by ohuehue. Perfecttrains helped to build the firework systems.

A monument commemorating the event was built in the park behind Parade Grounds.

Fun Fact: The event was coincidentally organised on the same day as Singapore's Pink Dot 2020 event which took place in the form of a virtual livestream. Singaporean WolvHaveners watched the livestream and hopped onto the server to attend the event after.

2021

The 2021 edition of the parade was held on 26 June 2021, 2PM UTC, mainly organised by Littledoggy2 and CrazySharkGaming, held in the same location as the parade in 2020. Along with the parade came several infrastructure improvements, such as the removal of the original stage that was built in 2020 which was then re-used for the Decennial Festival in April 2021. The stage was replaced with a smaller, more permanent structure by National Solutions Group which would be used for all future events held at the same venue in the future. The updated stage was smaller, but fit in with the rest of the world better in terms of scale.

The 2021 edition also placed a larger emphasis on trans rights and further showed its support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the states, the main stage featured light blue, pink, and white. While not shown in the main march, the official promotional video for the event - the Wolv Haven Rainbow Crossing featured the colors of the progress flag. The zebra crossing was transformed into one with the six colors of the rainbow, the trans pride colors, black, and brown.

Players were treated to games such as Splegg, Paintball, and MobArena - a new addition to WolvHaven's events. However, due to unforseen technical difficulties, many did not play splegg.

A Float design competition was also announced in the 2021 edition, and 18 floats were contributed by the community.

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  Float 1 - National Solutions
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  Float 2 - Rainbow over the Haven
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  Float 3 - RuPaul's DJ Booth & YASSwalk
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  Float 4 - Moiseiva's PERIMOO48
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  Float 5 - The GAYze
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  Float 6 - Ride the pole
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  Float 7 - Unfinished LOOΠΔ float
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  Float 8 - Equality House, Topeka, Kansas
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  Float 9 - Ride with pride
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  Float 10 - Sun Moon Lake City
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  Float 11 - Trans present
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  Float 12 - Rainbow tentacles
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  Float 13 - Cheese and wine
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  Float 14
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  Float 15
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  Float 16 - Foxtown
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  Float 17 - Newsnet WH
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  Float 18 - Pierogi