The 2025 Philadelphia Pride March and Festival kicked off Pride Month with a vibrant cascade of color, and a half-mile procession through the city and its history.

Marking 50 years since Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to protect LGBTQ+ employees from discrimination, this year’s event carried both the weight of history and the levity of celebration.

Kicking off at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at 6th and Walnut streets, the 2025 Philly Pride March carried forward the spirit and the legacy of the 1960s’ Annual Reminders . These early gay and lesbian civil rights demonstrations, held at Independence Hall every Fourth of July from 1965 to 1969, were among the first of their kind in the United States.

Though Pride is always joyful, many participants, such as Jett Steinem, of West Philadelphi

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