On Saturday, June 15, 2019 over 100,000 people are expected to participate in the RI PrideFest and Illuminated Night Parade with the bold theme Live Your Truth.
Rhode Island Pride invites you and your family (whether traditional or non-traditional) to reject the societal expectations imposed on you and to come out and Live Your Truth, with pride. Despite our progress over the years, society still assumes that everyone, from the moment of birth, is binary, cis, and straight. You’re expected to ... view more »
On Saturday, June 15, 2019 over 100,000 people are expected to participate in the RI PrideFest and Illuminated Night Parade with the bold theme Live Your Truth.
Rhode Island Pride invites you and your family (whether traditional or non-traditional) to reject the societal expectations imposed on you and to come out and Live Your Truth, with pride. Despite our progress over the years, society still assumes that everyone, from the moment of birth, is binary, cis, and straight. You’re expected to wear certain things, love certain people, and to accept being referred to with certain pronouns. You’re expected and assumed to be, someone other than who you truly are.
The Live Your Truth theme for 2019 reflects what’s at the heart of Pride: an opportunity to be exactly who you are, out in the open. The Live Your Truth theme simultaneously celebrates the numerous different genders, skin colors, sexual orientations, ages, races, religions, physical and mental abilities, national origins, and ethnicities (among many other factors) that make each of us who we are. We’ll even live our truths by parading down the street and showcasing the beautiful range of diverse individual identities among us within the LGBTQIA+ community!
This year’s PrideFest will be on Saturday, June 15, 2019, with a festival along South Water Street in Providence, followed at dusk by the Annual Illuminated Night Time Pride Parade.
The Annual PrideFest is located on South Water Street wand will start at 12:00 p.m. and continue until 7 p.m. The PrideFest will feature a mix of live entertainment on our main stage, a business marketplace with over 200 plus vendors, Hasbro Kid’s Zone, food trucks, arts, Youth Center, and a beer, wine and spirits garden. A rally and speaking program will take place at 3:00pm commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall from our main stage and will feature local community leaders. Entry is through the South Entrance by Wickenden Street and a North Entrance at the start of Memorial Blvd and South Water Street.
New England’s only night pride parade kicks off at 8pm and is one of the highlights to the celebration with a dazzling display of floats, performing artists, marching groups, businesses and spectators that wind through downtown Providence and culminate at the main RI Pride reviewing area under the historic marquee of the Providence Performing Arts Center. The parade begins on Dorrance Street and continues down Washington Street, then Empire street and ends on Weybosset Street. A new accessible viewing area will be set up at the corner of Empire and Weybosset street for anyone with wheelchairs or would like a place to sit. The energy in the city is electric and we send an open invitation to everyone to participate in the weekend events that transform the City of Providence into a vibrantly visible LGBTQ city.
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