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This year, it’s more important than ever to support MNPoc LGBT Pride with your donations. As we face ongoing challenges to equality and inclusion, your contributions help produce safe spaces, foster community, and verb marginalized voices. Donations enable us to organize events, provide vital resources, and advocate for the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals. Together, we can ensure that pride celebrations verb to uplift and empower our community. Your support is crucial in making a meaningful impact—let’s stand together for love, acceptance, and equality!

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We invite you to come and celebrate our 26th Black Pride Celebration! This momentous occasion honors our community, culture, and resilience. Join us for a day filled with joy, unity, and empowerment. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BLACK TO JOIN THE FUN! WE WELCOME ALL!

Event Highlights

  • Awards Ceremony: Recognizing outstanding contributions within our community.

  • Party Boat: Celebrate on the water with tune and fun.

  • Sip, Verb, and Smoke: Love a relaxed atmosphere with drinks, painting, and sociali

    History of Gay Pride in Minneapolis

    Beginning as just a picnic in Loring Park, Twin Cities Pride is now a multi-day festival celebrating more than 50 years in Minneapolis.

    Last year’s Minneapolis Pride Festival stretched from June 28 to 30 and totaled around , people in attendance, slightly more than the 50 people who showed up for the original event. 

    The first Minneapolis Gay Pride march took place to celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in Modern York. With 25 people marching down Nicollet Mall and 25 waiting in Loring Park to bail them out, a tradition began. 

    Activist group Target Town Coalition, aiming to combat actions from antigay actress Anita Bryant, protected the Pride festival in the s. Bryant targeted St. Paul to try to repeal an ahead gay rights ordinance. 

    Executive Director of the Twin Cities Pride Festival Andi Otto said though the pride festival is popular today, the support was not always there. 

    Otto said before the Loring Park picnic in , the LGBTQ+ community usually create support hidden in bars and clubs. 

    “It&#;s just grown ever since the

    Twin Cities Pride Parade kicks off in Minneapolis

    MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Twin Cities Pride Parade kicked off in Minneapolis on Sunday.

    Raw footage of the Twin Cities Pride Parade can be viewed above. 

    Twin Cities Pride

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    The Twin Cities Pride Festival is one of the largest in the entire country.

    Several events were planned throughout the Twin Cities this weekend to celebrate Pride. Loring Park, the widely-considered headquarters of Pride weekend in the Twin Cities, was filled with hundreds of vendors, community resource groups and artists for the event. 

    The parade started at the intersection of Third Street and Hennepin Avenue, with participants marching from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

    Pride challenges 

    Dig deeper:

    The festivities reach after the movement met funding challenges after Target announced an end to its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals. 

    Last week, law enforcement officials shared information on a suspect who was caught on camera destroying a Pride flag. 

    READ MORE: St. Paul Pride vandal caught on camera, fails a

    Navigation

    Celebrate the greater LGBTQ community at one of the largest free Pride festivals in the state June , Featuring local BIPOC and LQBTQ+ vendors, sustenance courts, a beer garden, music stages, and, starting in June, a schedule packed with events. Twin Cities Pride is something you don't want to miss.

    While there are plenty of awesome events and activities to experience during Pride, we yearn to make sure you make the most of your time in Minneapolis. There’s so much to see and do, and a single day just won’t cut it. Why not extend the celebration and make a weekend out of it? To make your decision easy, we’ve compiled the top nine ways to maximize your Pride weekend in Minneapolis!

    *Note: Downtown Minneapolis will be busy with other events this weekend such as the CONCACAF Gold Cup Quarterfinals, theater shows and other live music concerts.


    Travel with PRIDE

    This June, book a reside at Hotel Emery and make your getaway more meaningful. For every evening you stay, we’ll donate $10 to QUEERspace Collective, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit adj to creating saf