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PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia is less than a month away from the annual Pride Festival. But this year, the event won’t be held in the Gayborhood. Instead, it’s moving to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.<\/p>\n
Philly Pride leaves the Gayborhood <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Philly Pride 365, the organization that puts on the event, says the move “reflects the continued growth of the event, the need for a safer and more accessible footprint, and a broader vision for Pride as one of Philadelphia’s largest civic and cultural gatherings.”<\/p>\n
Why is Philly Pride moving? <\/p>\n
Big picture view:<\/p>\n
Philly Pride 365 says the festival is moving simply because of how popular the event is now.<\/p>\n
Organizers say attendance has increased from about 47,000 in 2022 to about 147,000 last year, and that with that many people in the Gayborhood, they can’t “accessibly, safely or effectively hold the event.”<\/p>\n
Community reacts to venue change <\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
Some attendees are questioning the move, specifically whether the community will feel safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I feel like a lot of people are really used to being in this area because they do feel safe here,” Amir Hayward said of the Gayborhood.<\/p>\n
Zee Ray has traveled from Cecil County, Maryland to attend Philly Pride for the last two years. Ray says that “it moving kinda might be a bummer, like people might not feel as safe or as comfortable.”<\/p>\n
Others are upset about the $10 tickets, saying that charging money for people “to be prideful and live in their authentic selves,” may feel like a “money grab.”<\/p>\n
What’s next:<\/p>\n
The 2026 Philly Pride Festival is on Sunday, June 7 at noon. More info, including how to get tickets for the event, can be found on Philly Pride 365’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from Philly Pride 365 and interviews with community members.<\/p>\n LGBTQ<\/a>Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia is less than a month away from the annual Pride Festival. But this year, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8987,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-191952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}