{"id":212142,"date":"2026-06-06T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:49:07","slug":"philadelphia-gears-up-for-2026-pride-march-and-festival-just-bring-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212142\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia gears up for 2026 Pride March and Festival: &#8220;Just bring a smile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pride celebrations in Philadelphia are underway as the city gears up for the 2026 Pride March and Festival on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just love the joy, the rainbows, the colors. Everyone being themselves and having a great time,&#8221; Kristin Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>A 1000-foot pride flag made its way around the city on Friday. It made a special stop at Independence Mall, stretching it along the lawn and across Market Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, it was unfurled on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride March and Festival will start in the area of 13th and Locust Street and conclude on the Parkway. The festival will be from noon until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels really great to be in place where you are accepted and you are loved and seeing the city show that is really important,&#8221; Amy Clanton said.<\/p>\n<p>People say the best part of Pride is seeing everyone come together and be themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am old enough to remember when there was nothing like this going on. You had to hide if you were gay. Things have moved so much in a short period of time. It&#8217;s just pretty cool to see the shift that happens,&#8221; said Ben Papa of Bella Vista. &#8220;When you are out and about this month, especially this weekend, just bring a smile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride celebrations in Philadelphia are underway as the city gears up for the 2026 Pride March and Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1157,8987,69,71,70,17549],"class_list":["post-212142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city","tag-lgbtq","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212142","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=212142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}