600-Foot Pride Banner to Be Featured at 2025 Philadelphia Pride Festival

Organizers of this year's Philadelphia Pride Festival are making a statement at this year's event. 

This year, the festival will feature what will be the largest flag ever displayed in the state of Pennsylvania, a 600-foot rainbow-colored pennant.

The flag will begin its journey through the city throughout the weekend, starting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and ending in the Gayborhood, with stops at Independence Mall and other historic locations to be announced. 

Volunteers can sign up to hold a section of the flag while it's being paraded through the city.

According to a PhillyVoice report, the flag is a custom design created by Daniel Quasar called the Progress Pride Flag. The design will bear an arrow of white, pink, and blue stripes for the trans community and black and brown stripes for communities of color. The black stripe also recognizes those who lost their lives to AIDS. 

Pride weekend will run from Friday, May 30, to Saturday, May 31, in Philadelphia. It will feature several events that will conclude with a march and festival on Sunday, June 1. 

The march, which will include the flag, starts at 10:30 a.m. at Sixth and Walnut streets and ends in the Gayborhood. The festival itself will run from noon to 7 p.m. and feature food trucks, performers, and vendors on stretches of the city from Walnut to Pine streets and Quince to Juniper streets.

Last year's Pride march and festival attracted approximately 100,000 people and brought in close to $5 million for LGBTQ-owned bars, restaurants, and small businesses, festival organizer Philly Pride 365 said. Attendance increased significantly from 2023, which had approximately 65,000 attendees. 

This year's Pride festival will mark the 50-year anniversary of former Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp signing an executive order that outlawed workplace discrimination against LGBTQ+ state employees.