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You can find tickets at sdpride.org/tickets!

See you there!

Attendees get to experience admission to the famous San Diego Pride Festival, which includes multiple stages and dance areas, beverage areas, community information booths and vendors, and much more. The festival is full of fun attractions including Art of Pride, Children’s Garden, Leather Realm, Youth Zone, and more.

Tickets are final sale and cannot be refunded.

The San Diego Pride Festival is located on the west side of Balboa Park off of Sixth Avenue from Laurel Street going south into Marston Point.

Click here for instructions for parking and transportation to the San Diego Pride Festival.

The San Diego Pride Parade follows a mile-and-a-half route starting west along University Avenue (starting at Normal Street) and turns south onto Sixth Avenue. The parade goes into Balboa Park at Upas Street.

Click here for instructions for parking and transportation to the San Diego Pride Parade

The Spirit of Stonewall Rally is located 535 Robinson Ave, San Diego, CA | Across from the Brass Rail. This event is free and open to the public.

Here at Pride, we strive to make your visit enjoyable and accessible. Click here to learn about the accessibility services that Pride offers.

PROHIBITED ITEMS

For the comfort and safety of all, attendees are not permitted to enter the festival with the following hazardous or potentially disruptive items:

• Alcoholic beverages
• Amplified music, bullhorns or loudspeakers (except as approved by the San Diego Pride)
• Animals (except ADA Recognized Service Animals)
• Bags with the exception for clear plastic bags not exceeding 12” X 6” X 12” and infant and medical bags. Clutches and purses no larger than 5” X 7”
• Balloons
• Banners or signs larger than 2 feet by 3 feet. Signs may not be commercial, obscene, or contain prohibited language (see Code of Conduct), and may not block people’s views, or any festival signage, or be posted on festival tents and fencing.
• Bicycles, Skates, Scooters or Skateboards* (Store your bike at our free bike storage!)
• Bubble-making devices
• Cameras with lenses longer than 6 inches. No extra detachable lenses
• Drones, remote controlled unmanned aerial vehicles, or other motorized vehicles/devices
• Drugs or other illegal substances/paraphernalia
• Firearms
• Fireworks, explosives or other incendiary devices
• Flags larger than 3 feet by 5 feet. Flags may not be commercial, obscene, or contain prohibited language (see Code of Conduct), and may not block people’s views, or any festival signage, or be posted on festival tents and fencing.
• Flyers, Samples, Giveaways or Promotional Items
• Frisbees, footballs, hackeysacks, or other throwable/kickable sports devices
• Glass containers of any type
• Hard sided coolers
• Hoverboards
• Inflatables
• Instruments
• Knives of any type
• Lawn chairs or rigid framed seating devices (Except ADA or as approved by San Diego Pride)
• Laser pointers
• Microphones (for non-credentialed media)
• Noise-making devices
• Outside Food
• Segways
• Selfie sticks
• Sports equipment of any kind (unless approved by San Diego Pride)
• Tents (unless approved by San Diego Pride)
• Umbrellas – large umbrellas that block sightlines or signage.
• Wagons – only wagons that can be pushed (rather than pulled) and that have safety child restraints are allowed
• Weapons of any other type (tasers, nunchaku, pepper spray, mace, expandable batons, etc.)
• *Scooters and mobility devices/devices are permitted if they are used for a disability

Attendees are encouraged to leave prohibited items at home or in their car. If a person comes to the gate with a prohibited item they will be prompted to bring it back to their car, place of residence or store in a locker outside the festival. All items are subject to search prior to entry. Any attendee intentionally possessing a prohibited item inside the festival grounds is subject to ejection from the event. Reasonable ADA accommodations will be made as exceptions.

San Diego Pride reserves the right to adjust the event entry policies at their sole discretion without any prior notice.

Yes! Youth high school aged or younger get into the festival for free which includes recent high school graduates. These tickets are not available in advanced and are only available at the front gate box office of the festival grounds when the festival is open. Your youth ticket includes admission into both days of the festival. Please note that children 13 years of younger need to be accompanied by a guardian or adult.

View our Full Youth Ticket Policy Here>>

You can donate to our year-round programming at sdpride.org/donate!

We’ll see you at the next one!

Pride festivities have grown from a small grassroots march for equal rights into the largest civic event in the region, with activities that span a full week of celebrating the LGBTQ community. In addition to our annual festivities, San Diego Pride has donated more than $3 million dollars to LGBTQ-serving nonprofits and runs multiple year-round education, advocacy, and community service programs.

Your donation to Pride will help fund:

• Virtual youth programming such as our Queer Youth Power Hours and the Youth Leadership Academy that will help more than 4,000 LGBTQ youth stay connected to LGBTQ services.
• Coalition groups like the Latinx Coalition, QAPIMEDA Coalition, and the Black LGBTQ Coalition to continue their year-round education and community building work.
• 30+ programs and events including She Fest, the #MeTooLGBT Summit, The Transgender Day of Empowerment, Pride Youth Marching Band, Vote with Pride, and more.