An estimated 30,000 to 35,000 people are expected to line Ocean Boulevard on Sunday and cheer the hundreds of participants who are marching under the boulevard's rainbow flags in the annual Long Beach Pride Parade.
Students at Leuzinger High School in Lawndale were filing into a classroom one day this week to find their principal standing before them. Ryan Smith held a cardboard box and greeted them with a smile; this was a good-news visit.