When and where to celebrate Pride Month events around Erie, Pa., in June 2025
The Northwestern PA Pride Alliance is celebrating Pride Month throughout June with events ranging from happy hours to its annual pride parade.
Through an extensive online search, we've found several events that help celebrate Pride Month around the Erie area.
If you know of an event during Pride Month that is not listed here, send the full details to nsorensen@gannett.com.
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The NWPA Pride Alliance will hold its monthly Queer Happy Hour at the Zone Dance Club at 133 W. 18th St. on June 4 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This event will be a way for attendees to kick off Pride Month, make new connections and enjoy a night out in a welcoming atmosphere.
Pride on the Bay is back for 2025 and will be held at Liberty Park June 28 from noon to 5 p.m.
This event will focus on celebration, community and LGBTQIA+ visibility while featuring live music, entertainment, food vendors and other opportunities to connect with local organizations. All are welcome to Pride on the Bay.
The Northwest PA Pride Alliance is hosting its annual Pride Parade, and the organization states the event is an opportunity to advocate for equality, justice and empower the Erie community.
Parade participants will line up on 11th and State Streets at noon on June 29 and the parade will kick off at 1 p.m.
Aging with Pride, an organization made up of LGBTQ seniors and allies, is hosting a game night at Werner Books at 3508 Liberty St. on June 11 starting at 5 p.m. This event is open to anyone and participants are encouraged to bring games or cards.
Here are some events that neighboring communities have planned to mark Pride Month:
Warren County Pride will be celebrating Pride Day all day on June 14. The schedule is filled with events including drag shows, drag queen bingo, guest speakers, cosplay and costume contests, music, a limbo contest and more. Food trucks will be on site until 4 p.m. You can find the full schedule of events on https://warrencountypride.wixsite.com/website.
On May 31 at 10 a.m., Jamestown Pride will host a kickoff rally at the Robert H. Jackson Center at 305 E. Fourth St. in Jamestown, New York. The rally will feature the raising of Jamestown's progress pride flag designed in 2018 based on the rainbow flag from 1978. This event will include refreshments, speakers from Jamestown and opportunities to purchase Jamestown Pride shirts.
The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts will be showing the R-rated film "Pride." According the center's website, the film focuses on the summer of 1984 as Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person.
This showing will take place on June 4 starting at 7 p.m. at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts at 116 E. Third St. in Jamestown, New York.
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Silent Legacy Band, a tribute to the music of Melissa Etheridge, will perform at Jamestown's Pride Festival, on the third floor of Wicked Warren's at 119 W. Third St., in Jamestown, New York on June 7 at 6 p.m. The band will perform a setlist comprised of Etheridge classics spanning her decades-long career.
The annual Pride Festival in Ashtabula, Ohio will take place at Walnut Beach Park in the Ashtabula Harbor on June 21 from noon to 6 p.m.
At this festival, attendees will find food trucks, vendors and entertainment from drag queen and kings. Other events include family friendly entertainment like bouncy castles and face painting.
Contact Nicholas Sorensen at Nsorensen@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Pride Month events: Where to celebrate around Erie, Pennsylvania
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