Philadelphia Pride

Philadelphia's Pride March and Festival is held on the first Sunday in June. The city counts its Pride history from 1972, which is why the 2022 edition was billed as PHL Pride 50. The organizer has changed. Philly Pride Presents, which ran the event for 28 years, dissolved in June 2021 after a transphobic Facebook post. The volunteer-led PHL Pride Collective, with Galaei as fiscal sponsor, ran the 2022 march and festival, and by 2025 the event was run by Philly Pride 365, a program of the Urban Affairs Coalition.

In 2026 the march started at 13th and Locust in the Gayborhood at 11am and ended on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, where the festival ran until 7pm. The march is free and bans floats, corporate banners and big institutional vehicles. The festival cost $10, with community-access options, and had a sober area and a low-sensory zone.

The organizers put attendance at over 147,000 for the 2025 weekend, their own number. The 2026 edition was on Sunday 7 June under the theme "Pride is Power", with a tribute to Patti LaBelle. The 2027 date and location hadn't been announced when we checked.