Pride Youth

Join us every second Saturday of the month from 11am to 2pm online for the Pride Youth Collective. This space is dedicated to leadership, professional development, and building community for LGBTQIA+ junior high- and high school-aged youth through interactive workshops with guest presenters from around San Diego.

Follow us on Instagram @sdprideyouth + spread the word! Download our flyer to pass along to students and through your local GSA! For questions, contact our Bilingual Community Outreach Coordinator Mel Mijares at [email protected]

San Diego Pride’s Education and Advocacy team works year-round to ensure that LGBTQIA+ youth are safe, affirmed, and thriving. We utilize advocacy tools such as policy, legislation, and training young people as organizers. As with San Diego Pride’s other advocacy work, we highlight and center those at multiples axes of oppression, locally, nationally, and globally. 

A notable advocacy achievement came in May 2021, when we worked with coalition partners in the region to release the LGBTQ+ Youth Standards of Care document. Click below to learn more.

Every year during Pride, LGBTQ youth get to imagine and create a space for LGBTQIA+ middle and high-school aged youth. This youth only space is filled with activities, entertainment, and affirming community for our LGBTQIA+ youth. If you’re interested in joining our Youth Zone Planning Team, please email [email protected]

Festival Admission:

• Youth 13 and younger get into the festival for free when accompanied by an adult. They do not require their own ticket.
• Youth high school aged or younger get into the festival for free and must get a ticket at the box office located near the front gate. Recent high school graduates receive a free ticket as well with proper identification.

The San Diego Queer Youth Chorus (SDQYC) is inviting you to join the only chorus in the State of California of LGBTQIA2+ and allied middle and high school students.

San Diego Queer Youth Chorus encourages and fosters artistic expression, personal development, and leadership in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning intersex and allied youth and presents musical performances that provide an opportunity and space for young people, however they identify, to say “this is a place where I am accepted for who I am and everything that I bring.”

SDQYC is led by Founding Artistic Director Lindsey Deaton, who is the Founding Artistic Director of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles and the Diverse City Youth Chorus in Cincinnati, OH. Lindsey’s work with choruses has been covered and featured on NPR, MSNBC, LA Weekly, The Advocate and in the LA TIMES, ‘Providing an essential voice’.

SDQYC operates under the guidance, support, and direction of a committee of representatives from San Diego Pride, San Diego Women’s Chorus, and the SDQYC AD, Lindsey Deaton.