Columbus gay pride 2025

Columbus Community Pride

Columbus’s alternative Pride celebration by and for Gay BIPOC since 2018

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Thank you for attending Columbus Community Lgbtq+ fest 2024: Love and Liberation By Any Means Necessary!

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Community Pride: Who We Are

Who We Are

Community Pride arose from the need to move queer and trans people of color from the margins to the center. It arose from the desire to reject police from our spaces, because we realize well how the police seek to punish and ruin people like us. It arose from the need to be treated appreciate full, vibrant people instead of enjoy a marketable demographic. If you’re looking for meaningless rainbow capitalism, Stonewall Columbus has plenty of that to give. But if you’re looking to honor in a way that truly pays homage to our radical legacy and that prioritizes people over profit, then join us with Community Pride! We host a series of fun, free events throughout Lgbtq+ fest month in June and a free outdoor festival in the fall.

Thousands of LGBTQ community members and allies turn out for Columbus Stonewall Pride

Thousands packed downtown Columbus and the Short North with the colors of the rainbow June 14 for the 2025 Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and March.

Marchers and demonstrators alike decked themselves out in rainbow colors and waved Pride flags and banners during the parade, which lasted over two hours and seemed to go on for miles, from its starting aim by the Ohio Statehouse to Goodale Park. This year's theme for the event is "United in Power!"

During the march, protesters marched alongside a "No Kings" float as thousands of similar events are planned across the country.

For Katorya Washington, 20, this was her first time spectating the Pride March after walking in it in 2024. She attended with her fiancée.

"I assume you have to at least come see it once, (even if) you don't see it ever again, just at least experience it," Washington said. "You only have one life; might as well do it all."

JP Murphy, 54, attended with his husband and best friend. He said Pride was about creature unified and "acknowledging and supporting that not every relationship is the same."

"I'm hoping that peopl

2025 Stonewall Columbus Event March Registration

The Stonewall Columbus 2025 Self-acceptance March will be held on Saturday, June 14th and step-off will be at 10:30 AM.

As a permitted event, all participants in the Stonewall Columbus Pride March MUST be a part of a registered group. We cannot allow people to simply drop in and registrations WILL NOT BE Acknowledged the day of the March. To participate in the Stonewall Columbus Pride Rally, you must either form your own registered group or join an existing group.

All 2025 Celebration 365 Sponsors will complete a separate march registration which will be sent directly to you. Do not accomplish this form if you are a 2025 Pride 365 Sponsor.

YOUR GROUP MUST COMPLY WITH ALL INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS OF STONEWALL COLUMBUS PRIDE.

Inclusion Policy

Vendors must support Stonewall Columbus’ vision of an inclusive community where all of us thrive. This is NOT just on the days of the event, but every day. Any corporation registered as a vendor that is found in violation of this policy in any way will be disqualified from participation in PRIDE events.

March Dignitary Trainings

March Ambassadors compete a key role in t

Columbus Pride 2025

Goodale Park
120 W. Goodale Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215
Friday, June 13 & Saturday, June 14
10 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

HRC Columbus will again present our booth at Pride this year! We will have a tent set up for the entire Pride festival. As always, we will hold opportunities to get deeply interested with HRC, become a member, purchase t-shirts or hats, stock up on HRC logo stickers, or just say hello!

We own two volunteer opportunities available:

Help us staff the Parade tent! We will serve to sign up modern members, including through the sale of memberships with T-shirts and hats and providing information to members of the community. We have shifts available Friday night and Saturday all day. Our highest necessitate is on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Check back soon for volunteer sign-up information!
March with us in the Pride parade! We are looking for about 30 volunteers to march with us in the Celebration parade Saturday morning. (Yes, we will have one of the really huge HRC flags!) Check assist soon for marching sign-up information.

Pride is both a community celebration that we love to be a part of and a crucial opportunity for HRC to si