{"id":252498,"date":"2026-07-26T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:25:10","slug":"still-here-still-proud-harrisburg-hosts-annual-pride-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252498\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Still here, still proud&#8217;: Harrisburg hosts annual Pride festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/centralpapride.org\/event\/pride-festival-of-central-pa-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">34th annual Pride Festival of Central Pennsylvania<\/a> was held Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;still here, still proud&#8221; \u2014 a message that attendees said had quite an impact. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was on the parade route with my good friend, Amethys Diamond, and we were just blown away by so many smiling faces at 10 in the morning,&#8221; Jade Devere said. <\/p>\n<p>Devere was named Miss Central PA Pride in 2012, back when the event was held in Riverfront Park. After that year, though, the festival took a 12-year hiatus until 2024. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People nowadays, we&#8217;ve got to stand up,&#8221; Stephanie Fritsch said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to be public, and I\u2019m not afraid to be known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LGBTQ members and allies marched around the Capitol and celebrated at Soldier&#8217;s Grove with plenty of music, color and community organizations filling the space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 The 34th annual Pride Festival of Central Pennsylvania was held Saturday. This year&#8217;s theme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-252498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252498","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=252498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}