Kansas city gay pride festival
Join KC PrideFest 2025 for its milestone 50th anniversary celebration themed "Bold & Gold." This event honors the history and progress of Kansas City's LGBTQIA+ community. Initiate your experience with the city's largest-ever Pride Parade, starting at 11:00 AM from Westport Route and Broadway Boulevard, ending at Theis Park. The park hosts dynamic festival activities across the weekend, featuring dwell entertainment from local and national artists, diverse vendors, and family-friendly offerings. Unique highlights include the "KC's Got Pride" talent competition with a $5,000 grand prize and the KC Pride Royalty Court Pageant. Free parking and shuttle services are obtainable for ease of access, making it convenient for attendees of all abilities. Festivities are unseal and welcoming for everyone, creating a vibrant communal vacuum of visibility and advocacy. Celebrate five decades of oneness and achievements with a weekend of engaging events and spirited celebration.
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Theis Park, 4800 Oak St, Kansas City
Missouri 64110, United States
Jun 07, 2024 5:00 pm - Jun 09, 2024 5:00 pm CDT
June 09th, 2024 at 5:00 pm CDT
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Kansas City Pridefest 2025: What you need to know
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Pridefest is celebrating 50 years in Kansas City with this year’s event.
This year’s Pridefest kicks off at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 6, with an opening nighttime celebration at Theis Park in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City Pridefest 2025: What you need to know
The event continues with the 2025 Pride Parade from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. The parade starts at Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard and makes its way down Broadway before turning east and concluding at Theis Park.
Additional events are planned from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., also at Theis Park.
LINK |2025 KC Pridefest schedule of events
Throughout the event, shuttle buses will transport festival-goers from several parking garages in the area to the drop-off located at 4800 Rockhill Road.
Attendees can park in any of the nine public parking garages on the Country Club Plaza, the University of Missouri - Kansas City Cherry Street Garage (Levels 2 and above) and at the Church of the Resurrection in Brookside, 5144 Oak Street.
Motorists will long to plan for extra time getting around the area during the week
Kansas City PrideFest celebrates 50th anniversary despite hostile politics and sponsor losses
In June 1975, Kansas City held its very first three day Pride Festival. The event, organized by groups like the Gay People’s Union and Kansas City Women’s Liberation Union, featured picnics, dancing and live entertainment at a community of houses just off 39th and Paseo.
This year’s KC PrideFest will celebrate 50 years of Pride in Kansas City. But the celebration will take place in an increasingly hostile political climate for the festival and the groups it celebrates — bringing mixed emotions for organizers like James Moran of Our Spot KC.
“On the one hand, I'm honored to be doing the same kind of operate that the people I glance up to were doing in their day,” Moran told KCUR’s Up To Date. “At the same time, it's quite something to still have to be doing it half a century later.”
In addition to increased political tension, this year’s PrideFest is also battling a severe decrease in sponsorship money, which organizers blame on anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric from President Donald Trump and his administration.
“We've had sponsors that have gone from amounts as large as $25