Pittsburgh Pride 2014

Pittsburgh Pride – Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh Pride is the premier LGBT community festival in Pennsylvania, featuring the Pride March, PrideFest and other events in June and is sponsored by the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Pride 2014

PrideFest is a day-long FREE event that takes place on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh between 6th Street and 10th Street.  In 2013, we had over 75,000 attendees (according to City of Pittsburgh estimates), and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever!

This year’s event will feature:

• Over 150 vendors
• Street performers
• Food booths
• Family friendly carnival games and inflatable attractions
• A wide variety of continuous entertainment on two stages including gay country musician Steve Grand!

Steve Grand became an overnight internet celebrity when his video “All-American Boy” went viral.  He is acclaimed by some to be the first openly gay male country musician to attract mainstream attention.  Grand has become an active figure in the LGBT equality movement, and Out magazine named Grand to its annual “Out100” list of the year’s most compelling LGBT people.  He recently launched an on-line campaign to fund his first album which quickly became one of the top 5 funded music projects in Kickstarter’s history.

This year, we are anticipating over 130 organizations and groups participating in the PrideMarch representing thousands of people….more than the Veterans Day Parade, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!  Once again led by the Dykes on Bikes contingent, this year’s parade participants will consist of a caravan of LGBT organizations, community groups, corporations, and politicians.

THE ROUTE

The March begins at the corner of Grant Street & the Blvd. of the Allies, proceeds down Grant Street, turns left onto Fifth Avenue, and finally a right onto Liberty Avenue.  The grandstand will be located at the PrideFest entrance at Liberty Avenue and Sixth Street.

Delta Foundation

Originally incorporated on July 17, 1996 as a spin-off of the Lambda Foundation, the Delta Foundation was created as a non-profit organization for the purposes of uniting and fostering good fellowship and social interaction among LGBT residents in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area.

In 2006, a different group of interested LGBT business owners and citizens came together with the idea of energizing Pittsburgh’s social scene and helping the community financially. Three events were held that raised over $35,000 and after observing their success and desire to form their own non-profit organization, the founding members of the Delta Foundation offered to cede leadership of their organization to the new group.

The Delta Foundation produces events and supports projects that help make the Pittsburgh a vibrant and exciting city that is attractive to the LGBT community. These include Pittsburgh Pride, (PITTSBURGH)RED on World AIDS Day, a Memorial Day Picnic, various fundraising events, and our newest project, Equality Partners of Western Pennsylvania. We believe that collaboration is the key to our success and we pride ourselves on the relationships we have cultivated with organizations such as: Visit Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, City of Pittsburgh, ACLU, Stonewall Democrats, Equality PA, Pennsylvania Diversity Network, Keystone Progress and others.

As Richard Florida stated in The Rise of the Creative Class, “the most successful regions welcome all kinds of people. The presence of an LGBT community in large numbers is an indicator of an underlying culture that is open-minded and diverse. People look for cities with lots of gay people when they are hunting for a place to live and work. The presence of gays signals an exciting place, where people can fit in and be themselves.“

Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh’s Board of Directors

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