PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – This June, Philadelphia will mark the 52nd anniversary of the city’s first Gay Pride Parade. As one of the country’s biggest pride festivals, the City of Brotherly Love has a lot in store for 2024.
The upcoming march and festival will feature America’s largest rainbow pride flag, which measures 400 feet tall. The party will also have its first ever headliner RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Sapphira Cristaland shows the most companies from the history of events.
If you’re going to Philly Pride, here’s what you need to know.
When is the Philly Pride parade and festival?
The Philadelphia Pride March and Festival will take place on Sunday, June 2, 2024. The march starts near Washington Square Park in Center City and ends in Philly’s Midtown Village neighborhood, also known as Gayborhood.
Where does the Philadelphia Pride march start and end?
The march will begin at 10:30 a.m. at 6th and Walnut Street and proceed north on 6th to Walnut, west on Walnut to 10th, south on 10th to Locust and end at 1100 Locust Street.
Where is the pride festival?
The Pride Festival begins Sunday afternoon immediately following the 2024 March. The festival continues until 7 p.m. Sunday and is centered around 13th and Locust Streets, with hundreds of food vendors, artists, community groups, bars and more.
What is the theme for Philly Pride 2024?
The theme for the 2024 Philadelphia Pride March and Festival is “Be You.”
According to Philly Pride 365, this year’s march is also “an ode to the Reminder Day demonstrations held in front of Independence Hall on Chestnut Street from 1965 to 1969 to raise awareness of bigotry, prejudice and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community and to send the message that ‘Gay is good.'”
The march will begin with speeches from community leaders, guests and a land acknowledgment from the Lenape Tribe.
How do you get to the march and festival?
Because street parking around the march and festival will be limited and there will be multiple road closures, attendees are encouraged to use public transportation.
Several SEPTA bus routes drop off passengers at the march’s starting line, and SEPTA’s Market-Frankford Line stops at the 5th Street Independence Hall station.
For those just attending the festival, the Walnut Locust station on the Broad Street Line stops just a few blocks from 13th and Locust.
Road closures for the Philly Pride March and Festival
More than a dozen road closures will be in effect on Sunday, June 2, between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. The following streets will be marked as temporary parking zones during that time:
- Juniper Street from Walnut Street to Cypress Street
- Cypress Street from Juniper Street to 12th Street
- 13th Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
- 12th Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
- Quince Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
- Locust Street from Juniper Street to 11th Street
- Pine Street from Juniper Street to 11th Street
- Spruce Street from Juniper Street to 11th Street
- Chancellor Street from Juniper Street to 12th Street
- St. James Street from 13th Street to 12th Street
- S. Camac Street from Walnut Street to Pine Street
- Irving Street from Juniper Street to 13th Street
- Schubert Alley from S. Camac Street 12th Street
- Manning Street from S. Camac Street to 12th Street
SEPTA bus routes will be diverted from their normal routes due to these closures beginning at 4:30 a.m. Sunday until approximately 8 p.m.
