Dear Pride Family,
In just a couple of weeks, two important days land on the same date: Giving Tuesday and World AIDS Day, on December 1.
This year’s World AIDS Day theme is access. Access to services, rights, resources and leadership. Because the science to end AIDS exists, but science only saves lives when it reaches people.
Our progress is real: 32.1 million people are on life-saving treatment, and prevention now includes an injection needed only twice a year. But in 2025, 1.2 million people acquired HIV, and nearly 9 million people living with HIV still had no access to treatment. External HIV financing fell by 18%, the largest drop in almost two decades, and community-led organizations were among the first to lose funding.
The gap is no longer about what medicine can do. It’s about who is able, allowed and supported to reach it.
That’s why community matters. Pride has always been about showing up for each other, with justice and with joy. Over the years, San Diego Pride has distributed more than $3 million to LGBTQIA+-serving programs around the world, and we’ve funded our own education, advocacy, and leadership programs here at home. That work happens because of donors like you.
This World AIDS Day, on Giving Tuesday, we’re inviting you to bring radical generosity to Pride and here’s our ask:
Give Tuesday. Give every month.
$25 matters today. $25 every month changes what Pride can plan for tomorrow.
Your gift helps us:
• Empower LGBTQIA+ leaders of all ages and backgrounds
• Educate and raise awareness to combat discrimination
• Organize community-led events that build belonging
• Fund impactful global projects uplifting the LGBTQIA+ community
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 1. We’ll send you the link that morning, or you can get a head start here and DONATE today!
San Diego Pride is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (EIN: 33-0619449). Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
In Pride,
San Diego Pride
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.
