They have been very cooperative.”Ĭarr said parade-goers will meet at Niceville High School at 9 a.m. It will be a peaceful thing, not a protest. “They aren’t going to be marching down the street, they’ll be on the sidewalk following all the rules.

“We talked to the coordinator and basically just went over some ground rules, and they will have a good parade and hopefully it will be good weather,” Popwell said. He does not plan to have any extra officers on hand to monitor the parade and does not anticipate any issues. Niceville Police Chief David Popwell said his department is aware of the event. Instead, word of the event spread quickly and Carr has now had to organize it with the Niceville Police Department. and there are Pride events every summer, so I was just like, why not here?”Ĭarr said he posted about his idea on social media, expecting only a few friends to be interested. “As far as I know, there hasn’t been anything like this in the area, other than Pensacola and Panama City,” he said. Organizer Jonathan Scott Carr, 26, of Valparaiso, says he thought of the idea for the Niceville LGBTQA March for Equality after moving back to the area from Texas two-and-a-half years ago and realizing there were no organized Pride events. NICEVILLE - What is probably the area’s first-ever LGBTQA Pride Parade is scheduled for Saturday in Niceville.