‘Pride means fight back’: Tampa activists stage People’s Pride march through Ybor City [PHOTOS]

People’s Pride Coalition march in Ybor City, Florida on March 14, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Seventh Avenue has a reputation for being the backdrop for radical political activity, from the 1937 Antifascist Women’s March, to a recent re-enactment of it, and of course last Saturday’s People’s Pride Coalition march.

Organized in part by the Tampa chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the Tampa Immigrant RIghts Committee, the action started and ended at Centennial Park in Ybor City.

Meant to acknowledge the hiatus that Tampa’s big Pride parade is on, a press release said the march also hoped “to raise awareness of pinkwashing that is often put onto the LGBT community to justify imperialism, and to also show that pride can happen in Tampa without corporate sponsorships.” 

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This article appears in Mar. 12 – 18, 2026.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…
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