{"id":287980,"date":"2026-05-28T20:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287980\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:06:25","slug":"city-of-st-petersburg-celebrates-pride-month-with-annual-flag-raising-and-pop-up-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287980\/","title":{"rendered":"City of St. Petersburg Celebrates Pride Month with Annual Flag Raising and Pop-Up Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tCity of St. Petersburg Celebrates Pride Month with Annual Flag Raising and Pop-Up Event<\/p>\n<p>May 28, 2026 -The City of St. Petersburg is proud to kick off Pride Month with a community celebration at City Hall on Thursday, June 4, 2026. The morning will feature the ceremonial raising of the St. Pete Pride flag and a special community pop-up celebration. Both events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>City of St. Petersburg Mayor Kenneth T. Welch, City officials, and community members will gather to raise the Pride flag at 9 a.m. outside of City Hall (175 5th St. N).<\/p>\n<p>Remarks at the flag raising will be delivered by Mayor Kenneth T. Welch, Council Chair Lisset Hanewicz, and St. Pete Pride President Dr. Byron Green-Calisch.<\/p>\n<p>The pop-up event starts at 8 a.m outside City Hall and lasts until 12 p.m. The family-friendly event will feature music, food, games, and giveaways. The first 400 attendees will receive a free, limited-edition St. Pete City Pride flag to proudly display throughout June and beyond. In addition to the flags, the city will have We Are St. Pete and St. Pete Pride-themed giveaways available.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Pride events and activations, please visit <a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/visitors\/lgbtq_community.php\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpete.org\/LGBT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of St. Petersburg Celebrates Pride Month with Annual Flag Raising and Pop-Up Event May 28, 2026 -The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-287980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287980","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=287980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}