New Hope Pride 2026

New Hope Pride is the annual LGBTQ+ celebration of one of America's oldest and most historically significant gay villages — a September festival on Main Street that draws approximately 10,000 people to a town of 2,500 permanent residents for a celebration that is intimate, community-oriented, and set against the pastoral beauty of early autumn in Bucks County. The scale of New Hope Pride is its defining characteristic: this is not a large urban festival with corporate sponsors and imported performers, but a genuine community celebration of a village whose gay identity goes back to the 1960s and whose Main Street has functioned as LGBTQ+-welcoming space for longer than most Pride festivals have existed. The September timing — after the peak summer season but before full autumn — catches Bucks County in some of its most beautiful light, with the Delaware River and the surrounding countryside providing a backdrop that no urban Pride can replicate.