Dear Pride Family,
THANK YOU! In a year marked by transitions, thousands of you showed up to celebrate queer joy and be in community together. Pride is a celebration and a protest at the same time. We have much more work to do in the coming months and years, and our joy is resistance. THANK YOU for showing up for each other!
Thank you for helping San Diego Pride celebrate our 50th Anniversary! As we remember the LGBTQIA+ community members who came before us, we can re-imagine what our own future could and should look like. History is alive, and we shape it every day through our collective action and individual choices. So we ask you again, how will you choose to make history?
San Diego Pride week may be over, but we will carry the spirit of the Stonewall and Compton’s Cafeteria protests with us, because Pride does not end in June OR July, and we demand to be part of the narrative.
Every voice matters, and every step forward is a victory. As we reflect on our beautiful Pride week together, let us recommit ourselves to the origins of Pride.
Let us celebrate with Pride,
Let us vote with Pride,
Let us live with Pride.
With Pride,
Jen LaBarbera & Sarafina Scapicchio
P.S. If you enjoyed our celebration and love our year-round education and advocacy work, please consider becoming a sustaining donor to San Diego Pride. Donate here.
San Diego Pride raises funds primarily through festival ticket and beverage sales, and through sponsorships, and exhibitor fees. These funds support San Diego Pride’s community philanthropy which has distributed more than $2.5 million in advancement of its mission to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities locally, nationally, and globally.
