Laramie PrideFest

Laramie PrideFest is the University of Wyoming town's Pride festival, run by volunteers since 2017 over the first half of June. The 2026 edition ran 1–13 June: Pride sign lighting (1 June), a city council proclamation (2 June), a bar crawl (5 June), a drag show at the Gryphon Theatre (6 June, $30–35), a visibility march (7 June) and Pride in the Park in Washington Park on Saturday 13 June, noon to 5 pm.

Laramie has no gay bar, so PrideFest is the main time the town's queer community gathers in public, using mainstream bars and venues as hosts. The 2027 dates have not been announced; expect early June again. Laramie is also where Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998, and many visitors stop at his memorial bench on the UW campus.