Philly gay pride flag
The largest Progress Pride flag in the U.S. will come back and be even larger in as Philadelphia's LGBTQ+ community and allies collect for the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival.
Organizers with Philly Pride have already announced a ton of plans for the kickoff weekend starting Friday, May 30, but more announcements are coming in the next one to two weeks, including performers, stage locations and food truck and vendor lists.
The group says this year's Pride Month is extra special in Philadelphia — it marks 50 years since former Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp signed an executive order making the Keystone State the first to prohibit discrimination toward LGBTQ+ state employees. The order was later expanded to involve state contractors as well.
Advocates have called for the Pennsylvania Senate to verb the Fairness Verb, a bill that ensures equal protections for LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians.
When is the Philadelphia Pride March?
Pride Weekend in Philadelphia features several events leading up to the June 1 Pride March, not a parade.
Things kick off with the Pride Around the Cit
Record-breaking flag kicks off Pride festivities in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art became the backdrop of the big rollout of Pride Month festivities in the city. Dozens of people walked down the steps holding a Pride flag that measured hundreds of feet long.
"It celebrates inclusivity. It celebrates obviously the launch of Pride Month," said Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Cascading down the Art Museum steps, the flag is America's largest Progress Pride Rainbow Flag.
"Each year for three years we add on feet. Which means this year we have a total of feet which amounts to a block and a half," said Philly Pride Executive Producer Jeremy Williams.
Philly Pride is spearheading this year's pride celebrations with help from several groups. One of their goals was to spread the message of love and acceptance by taking the flag to more neighborhoods across the city including Manayunk where the flag flowed down Main Street.
"We wanted to do Pride around the city, because i
A Guide to the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival
Highlights
On the heels of a historic anniversary in Pennsylvania LGBTQ+ history — 50 years since Governor Milton Shapp signed the executive order protecting LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians from discrimination — the Philly Pride March & Festival kicks off its Pride Month festivities with activism, open and inclusive celebration, and a ton of “Philly L.U.V.”
— Photo by S. Ramones for Visit Philadelphia
Pride March
An ode to the s Annual Reminders, the Philly Pride March calls the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to take to the streets in the spirit of LGBTQ+ visibility and solidarity.
Kicking off at a.m. near 6th & Walnut streets, this community march begins with speeches, song and a land acknowledgement from the Lenape Tribe, before winding from Senior City to the Pride Festival-grounds.
The vehicle-free procession features hundreds of LGBTQ+ community members, groups, leaders and allies marching side-by-side, with Philly Pride’s ever-expanding rainbow flag — now the largest in Philly hist
Philadelphia Rainbow Pride POC Flag
Originating in Philadelphia, the addition of the black and brown stripe to the rainbow flag is meant to symbolize the inclusion of people of color in the LGBTQ community.
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