PHL Pride 50: Our Community, Our Joy
Thank you for a wonderful PHL Pride March 2022 & PHL Pride Festival 2022! We appreciate everyone who volunteered and attended who helped create our vision and make it into a reality. We’re just getting started! #PHLPride
Be a part of building a new Philly Pride, that centers Black and Brown queer and trans communities, and highlights the stories of LGBTQ+ Philadelphians still fighting for equality. We want to create a Pride that honors the origins of LGBTQ+ liberation, including the protests at Dewey’s in Philadelphia, Stonewall, and the first Philadelphia Gay Pride demonstration in 1972.
We envision year-round programming that celebrates Philly LGBTQ+ communities, and creates spaces for LGBTQ+ people to meet, engage in collective healing, educate each other, and support the well-being of our communities throughout Philadelphia. Please read our Points of Unity to find out more about what we stand for.
Press Clippings
How Philly’s Pride march captured the politics of the moment
“This is the first Pride that I’ve felt a part of,” de Marco said to the crowd. “The former organizers of Pride would not move…
The first such gathering in Philadelphia was held in June 1972. This year, instead of a parade, organizers planned the community march from Independence Mall…
Thousands march through Philadelphia for a revived Pride that celebrates all
First-time organizers PHL Pride Collective largely pulled off their goal of an inclusive, welcoming event. As thousands of colorfully dressed people proved as they marched…