{"id":208636,"date":"2026-03-27T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:06:09","slug":"pride-of-tampa-group-hosts-celebrations-despite-official-tampa-pride-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208636\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pride of Tampa&#8217; group hosts celebrations despite official Tampa Pride hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Board members say they have worked around the clock for about four months to prepare several Pride events scheduled for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The celebrations aren&#8217;t stopping after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/pride\/tampa-pride-parade-2026-cancelled\/67-6267766a-3569-442b-ac09-0df481b61843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tampa Pride announced the organization<\/a> would be taking a one-year hiatus, blaming the current political and economic climate.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the official Tampa Pride event isn&#8217;t happening, a newly formed group called Pride of Tampa has stepped up to make sure the city still has a way to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Board members say they have worked around the clock for about four months to prepare several Pride events scheduled for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done it from the ground up, and all of the people who have come together are volunteering their time,&#8221; board member KC Starrz said. &#8220;The last thing that we want is for people to feel that there&#8217;s no one out there who cares about them. We do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Board members say they&#8217;ve already started looking ahead at what they can plan for next year. They expect the celebration to be even bigger and better.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information on the events at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideoftampa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PrideofTampa.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Board members say they have worked around the clock for about four months to prepare several Pride events&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-208636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}