{"id":213351,"date":"2026-06-08T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213351\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:18:16","slug":"philadelphia-pride-march-and-festival-brings-lgbtq-community-together-were-gonna-hold-each-other-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213351\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Pride March and Festival brings LGBTQ+ community together: &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna hold each other up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands came together Sunday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-pride-march-and-festival-history-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia<\/a> Pride March and Festival in Center City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Few entrances were more colorful than when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZS0LYMPr7H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1,000-foot Pride flag<\/a> approached the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Sunday afternoon, near the site of the festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just seemed so vibrant and so bright &#8230; it&#8217;s joyful,&#8221; attendee Laila Page said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maisey Kolpak was one of many mesmerized by the sight of the flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just seemed to stretch on almost endlessly,&#8221; said Kolpak, who came to the march and festival from York, Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The flag accompanied the march from its start at 13th and Locust streets to 21st Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Pride festival took over the afternoon. People stopped at tents like the one CBS Philadelphia had \u2014 along with grabbing a bite or a sip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I&#8217;m] just excited to explore and maybe meet new people and just have fun,&#8221; Page said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year was a little bit different than the previous ones because the event has grown. The festival moved to the Parkway from the Gayborhood and Old City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s all together \u2013 no matter what you like,&#8221; Chloe Jean-Louis, of Philadelphia, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attendees told CBS News Philadelphia that sense of unity is important for the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just hadn&#8217;t been to a major city&#8217;s Pride event yet,&#8221; Kolpak said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a great time, seeing everyone dressing how they want, expressing themselves how they want.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That huge flag wasn&#8217;t just mesmerizing because of how it looked to Kolpak, but what it represents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We keep going,&#8221; Kolpak said. &#8220;We support each other, and we&#8217;re gonna hold each other up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands came together Sunday for the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival in Center City.\u00a0 Few entrances were more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,17549],"class_list":["post-213351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213351","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=213351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}