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The Doo Dah Parade is Columbus's beloved annual celebration of the absurd — a deliberately unserious parody parade that has been a fixture of Short North culture since the 1980s. The parade lampoons Columbus civic life, Ohio politics, and American culture with floats, costumes, and performances that range from gentle satire to full-on surrealist spectacle. The LGBTQ+ community has been part of the Doo Dah tradition since its earliest years — the parade's embrace of the ridiculous and the transgressive has always made it a natural home for queer participation and queer creativity. The Doo Dah Parade is an example of the specific kind of queer cultural contribution that operates through humour and irreverence rather than explicit identity politics, and it is one of the more enjoyable events in Columbus's annual calendar. The parade takes place in the Short North, typically in late summer.