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Columbus Community Pride
Columbus’s alternative Pride celebration by and for Queer BIPOC since 2018
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Community Pride arose from the need to move queer and trans people of color from the margins to the center. It arose from the demand to reject police from our spaces, because we understand well how the police seek to punish and annihilate people like us. It arose from the need to be treated favor full, vibrant people instead of appreciate a marketable demographic. If you’re looking for meaningless rainbow capitalism, Stonewall Columbus has plenty of that to propose. But if you’re looking to honor in a way that truly pays homage to our radical legacy and that prioritizes people over profit, then join us with Community Pride! We host a series of fun, free events throughout Celebration month in June and a free outdoor festival in the fall.
Columbus Pride 2025
Goodale Park
120 W. Goodale Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215
Friday, June 13 & Saturday, June 14
10 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
HRC Columbus will again give our booth at Pride this year! We will have a tent set up for the entire Pride festival. As always, we will have opportunities to get involved with HRC, grow a member, purchase t-shirts or hats, stock up on HRC logo stickers, or just declare hello!
We have two volunteer opportunities available:
- Help us staff the Self-acceptance tent! We will work to sign up new members, including through the sale of memberships with T-shirts and hats and providing information to members of the community. We have shifts available Friday night and Saturday all day. Our highest deserve is on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Verify back soon for volunteer sign-up information!
- March with us in the Pride parade! We are looking for about 30 volunteers to march with us in the Pride parade Saturday morning. (Yes, we will have one of the really big HRC flags!) Check back soon for marching sign-up information.
Pride is both a community celebration that we adore to be a part of and a crucial opportunity for HRC to si
Plan Your Pride: The Ultimate Guide to Pride Weekend in Columbus
Get loud, be proud, and come out for Pride in Columbus.
The first Pride march in Columbus was in 1981 and drew around 200 participants—now, it’s the largest Pride celebration in the Midwest! With Columbus Pride drawing more than 700,000 people and recently being named among the top Pride Festivals in the U.S. by Conde Nast Traveler, you'll be in good corporation if you're traveling into town to celebrate. If you're planning to appear for the official protest, it's June 15th. But don't let that be the only time you spend in town—whether you want to come preliminary or stay late, a lot is happening throughout the rest of the month. This guide will help you plan your trip so you can enjoy all of the festivities.
Columbus Pride Festival Weekend: Tips, Stays and the Details
Dates, Location and Accessibility
Columbus Celebration Festival weekend kicks off at Goodale Park on Friday, June 13, from 4 pm to 10 pm, with the Pride Pride beginning at 10:30 am on Saturday, June 14.
The march begins at the corner of Broad and Hi
Stonewall Columbus Parade LGBTQ+ March loses some corporate assist following DEI attacks
Several national and local companies that have supported Ohio’s largest LGBTQ+ Movement Month celebration in the past are backing out this year.
Densil Porteous, executive director of Stonewall Columbus, said Lowe's, Nissan, Anheuser-Busch and Walmart are some of the larger companies that are not supporting Columbus' pride events this year. Porteous said the lost funding amounts to about $150,000.
Porteous said some companies are pulling back DEI initiatives. Private companies are under pressure and caving to demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from Republicans at the articulate level and at the federal level with the Trump administration.
Porteous said that is disheartening and everyone should be upset at what is happening.
"We are seeing a lot of that equal thing coming from a presidential administration, from a express administration that is saying or curtailing people and companies and organizations from being their complete selves," Porteous said. "They are not allowing people to show up the way that they want to display up... organizations to show up the way that th