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Hayley Lebert; Andre Duran; Kaitlyn Barcelona for RI Pride
Rhode Island LGBTQ+ Pridefest, June 2025
Ryan Welch for RI Pride
Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but when it comes to Pride they go big!
Once again, the capital city of Providence played host to their annual PrideFest, which is New England’s only night time only nighttime Pride parade. The event which attracted over 100,000 attendees turned the city into an illuminated celebration of queer joy and resillliance.
The event featured more than 250 nonprofit organizations, businesses, and food vendors. And keeping the party going into the evening was a mix of regional and national acts, along with interactive zones spotlighting LGBTQIA+ history.
Among the performers was Asher HaVon, a soulful R&B and gospel artist from Selma, Alabama is best known for being the first openly LGBTQ+ winner of The Voice. “I have travelled and performed all over the country, but this was absolutely the most amazing experience I have ever had—the love and unity was everywhere,” he said of the event.
The theme for this years event was Unapologetically Proud, a poignant choice for a political climate that would like to see queer folks shamed, if not afriad. "This year's PrideFest and Illuminated Night Parade exemplify the strength and unity of our community," said Rodney Davis, President of Rhode Island Pride. “Our joy is also our resistance, as we came together to be—as this year’s theme emphasizes—UNAPOLOGETICALLY PROUD!”
This year saw incredible events raising our voices and our visibility from sea to shining sea. Keep scrolling to get a peek at how the East Coast does Pride!
LGBTQ+ pride celebrations around NYC, June 29, 2025
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LGBTQ+ pride celebrations around NYC, June 29, 2025
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Every June, New York Pride transforms the city into something bigger than a parade. It’s part protest, part party, and 100% a reminder that queer joy refuses to be quiet.
This year was no different. In the face of all the turmoil happening throughout the country, New Yorkers banded together to be as loud, as proud, and as unflinchingly visible as ever.
Front and center was Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as one of this year's grand marshals!
LGBTQ+ pride celebrations around NYC, June 29, 2025
50th anniversary LGBTQ+ pride parade and celebration, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2025
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50th anniversary LGBTQ+ pride parade and celebration, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2025
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This year, the city of Baltimore celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first Pride parade with a huge celebration that proved why it’s called Charm City.
Earlier this month, Baltimore Pride celebrated the contributions of sexual and gender minorities with a Pride parade that brought 150,000 people to the city. Hosted by the Pride Center of Maryland, the week-long celebration featured a parade, performances, and countless Pride parties. This year’s theme, “50 Shades of Pride” honors five decades of resistance, queer joy, advocacy, and liberation.
“We said the best way to honor that [legacy] is to ensure that we highlight 50 Shades of Pride, to let folks come up in any way that they see is necessary,” said Tramour Wilson, Chief Director of Special Projects for the Pride Center of Maryland.
Singer-songwriter Durand Bernarr, DJ CO, and gospel legend Kelly Price headlined Baltimore’s Pride in the Park, while rapper Lola Brooke was the star of the Block Party, and Drag Race’s Lexi Love was featured at the closing party.
Keep scrolling to see the protest signs, drag queens, and rainbow outfits that made Baltimore Pride so rich this year!
Pine City’s East Central Minnesota Pride is the very first rural Pride celebration in the country, and this year marked its 20th anniversary of breaking down barriers and building community in the rural Midwest.
What started as a small Pride picnic back in 2005, ballooned into an annual tradition that has become a fixture of Minnesota’s summer calendar and proves every year that queer folks belong in the farm country.
This year’s event was hosted in Robinson Park and featured live music, food trucks, LGBTQ+ resources, and a drag queen story hour. Drag queen and Broadway Baby of the Twin Cities Martina Marraccino hosted the event, which featured performances by singer-songwriter Barb Ryman, funk musician Salty Dog, hometown folk duo The Harlow Pennies, jam band The Big Wu, and the Oshikii Giishik singers.
Pine City may only be a town of 10,000 people, but LGBTQ+ people and their allies come from all around the state to celebrate Pride Month together. It’s just further proof that when we come together to celebrate and fight back, we can make our voices heard.
Keep scrolling to see how rural Minnesota celebrates Pride Month!
All photos are courtesy East Central Minnesota Pride.
East Central Minnesota LGBTQ+ Pride, Pine City, June 2025
Sure, Pride Month is about protest, celebrating queer joy, and partying while in community with other LGBTQ+, but it’s also about dressing your pets up in rainbow costumes!
New York City always goes all out for Pride, but Woof Fest: Paws for Pride is all about the dogs.
This year’s event, organized by Manhattan West, went off without a hitch and was the perfect place for animal lovers and families to celebrate Pride alongside fabulous drag queens and the cutest pups you’ve ever seen. Trust us, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a dog wearing a rainbow tutu.
The day was packed full of fun activities and events, including a modeling contest where pups and their human dressed to impress and strutted their stuff on the runway for a chance to win fun prizes. Beloved drag artist and activist Marti Cummings also performed for the crowd, there was a drag queen story hour for kids and their dogs, a “Pup-a-razzi” photo so people could capture the magical moment, and a professional dog trainer teaching attendees tips and tricks.
Every year, Woof Fest continues to prove that kids and families belong at Pride celebrations and that that joy is a dog in a rainbow costume.
Keep scrolling to have your heart melted by adorable pups and fabulous drag queens!
Courtesy Manhattan West/Brian Hatton
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