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Philadelphia gay pride flagge

The largest Progress Identity festival flag in the U.S. will go back and be even larger in as Philadelphia's LGBTQ+ people and allies amass for the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival.

Organizers with Philly Pride have already announced a ton of plans for the kickoff weekend starting Friday, May 30, but more announcements are coming in the next one to two weeks, including performers, stage locations and food truck and vendor lists.

The collective says this year's Pride Month is extra special in Philadelphia — it marks 50 years since former Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp signed an executive order making the Keystone State the first to prohibit discrimination toward Homosexual state employees. The order was later expanded to contain state contractors as well.

Advocates have called for the Pennsylvania Senate to transfer the Fairness Operate, a bill that ensures equal protections for LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians.

When is the Philadelphia Pride March?

Pride Weekend in Philadelphia features several events head up to the June 1 Identity March, not a parade.

Things kick off with the Celebration Around the Cit

LGBTQ+ Pride Flags

In the LGBTQ+ community, we signify our pride with flags. With many diverse identities in the collective, there comes many other flags to know. We have collected all of the flags and a guide to learn about all of the unlike colors of our community’s rainbow. We know that this may not be all of the flags that represent our group, but we will update the page as unused flags become popular!

Explore the flag collection below! Watch a flag's name by hovering or clicking on the flag.

Umbrella Flags

  • Gilbert Baker Pride Flag

  • Traditional Pride Flag

  • Philadelphia Pride Flag

  • Progress Pride Flag

  • Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

  • Queer Pride Flag

The original Pride Flag was created in after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay pride. Each paint represents a different part of the LGBTQ+ community: hot pink represents sex, red symbolizes life, orange stands for healing, yellow equals sunlight, green stands for nature, turquoise symbolizes magic and art,

A Guide to the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival

Highlights

On the heels of a historic anniversary in Pennsylvania LGBTQ+ history  — 50 years since Governor Milton Shapp signed the executive order protecting LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians from discrimination — the Philly Identity festival March & Festival kicks off its Pride Month festivities with activism, uncover and inclusive celebration, and a ton of “Philly L.U.V.”

  — Photo by S. Ramones for Visit Philadelphia

Pride March

An ode to the s Annual Reminders, the Philly Pride March calls the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to seize to the streets in the spirit of Homosexual visibility and solidarity.

Kicking off at a.m. near 6th & Walnut streets, this community march begins with speeches, music and a land acknowledgement from the Lenape Tribe, before winding from Old City to the Pride Festival-grounds.

The vehicle-free procession features hundreds of LGBTQ+ community members, groups, leaders and allies marching side-by-side, with Philly Pride’s ever-expanding rainbow flag — now the largest in Philly hist

Record-breaking flag kicks off Pride festivities in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art became the backdrop of the big rollout of Pride Month festivities in the city. Dozens of people walked down the steps holding a Pride flag that measured hundreds of feet long.

"It celebrates inclusivity. It celebrates obviously the launch of Pride Month," said Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Cascading down the Art Museum steps, the flag is America's largest Progress Pride Rainbow Flag.

"Each year for three years we add on feet. Which means this year we have a total of feet which amounts to a block and a half," said Philly Pride Executive Producer Jeremy Williams.

Philly Pride is spearheading this year's pride celebrations with aide from several groups. One of their goals was to spread the message of love and acceptance by taking the flag to more neighborhoods across the city including Manayunk where the flag flowed down Main Street.

"We wanted to do Pride around the city, because i