Phoenix Pride

This years 26th annual Phoenix Pride parade brought together over 225 diverse parade entries 4,500 individual participants from the metropolitan Phoenix area and beyond to approximately 13,000 spectators from the general public. Participants included local, regional and national lgbtq and lgbtq-friendly individuals and organizations from the non-profit, private and public sectors. Participation by government officials, government services, private corporations and celebrities continued to make spectators and the general public aware of their support for a prosperous lgbtq community.

The 42nd annual 2-day Phoenix Pride festival continued to be a gathering created to educate the public about the existence and continuing civil rights battle of the metropolitan Phoenix lgbtq community, as well as for the general public to celebrate the existence of its lgbtq community. The festival had over 34,000 attendees and presented over 235 exhibitors and over 200 entertainment performances on 7 stages. Participation by government officials, government services, private corporations and celebrities continued to make the general public aware of their support for a prosperous lgbtq community. Funding from the Pride festival funded 64,950 in community grants awarded to 14 lgbtq nonprofit organizations and programs achieve their mission. In addition, 53,000 in program funding went to the Phoenix Pride scholarship fund, administered through the Arizona community foundation, from which ten 10 5,000 college scholarships and three 3 1,000 athletic scholarships were awarded to local lgbtq college student applicants.