LA Pride: Last News

Christina Aguilera will headline LA Pride in the Park June 11 at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Photo: NBC

Sharon-Franklin Brown was elected president of Christopher Street West Tuesday evening. The group produces the LA Pride Parade and Festival. Brown is the first Black transgender woman in the group’s history. Photo: Christopher Street West.

In 2019, LA Pride officials allowed the festival to exceed capacity, which caused public safety officials to close the event. Photo: Q Voice News.

With Pride Festivals and Parades across the nation cancelled or postponed indefinitely due to the COVID pandemic, the usual excitement felt by many as June approaches is sadly missing – but just because the community can’t gather in person to share the spirit of the season, that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate together with some fierce and fabulous live entertainment.

Estevan Montemayor, president of LA Pride, and executive director Madonna Cacciatore. (Photo by Jon Viscott)

The 2018 LA Pride festival saw around 170,000 participants and spectators come together in a show of unity — and this year’s spectacular seems like it will top that! While the LGBTQ+ community has never been in a situation when it wasn’t being persecuted, the current White House administration’s policies have stoked the flames of homophobia in the US while deliberately attacking the rights of trans people. The turnout at LA Pride seemed to be a direct response to this, since so many supporters of gay rights came together on June 9 to parade down Santa Monica Boulevard. Before the parade kicked off, the crowds were treated to live performances by Paula Abdul and Meghan Trainor.

A woman lays flowers at a George Floyd memorial outside the Olive Avenue Market in Redlands. Photo: Beatriz Valenzuela for Q Voice News.

Dan Mathews, a vice president at PETA, left, and his husband, Jack Ryan, right, and an unidentified friend attend George Floyd’s funeral in Raeford, North Carolina, on Sunday.

A crowd gathers on Hollywood Boulevard to watch the first LA Pride Parade in 1970. Photo: ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

A crowd gathers on Hollywood Boulevard to watch the first LA Pride Parade in 1970. Photo: ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.