Miami beach gay pride parade

Every year, the University of Miami takes a contingency to the Miami Beach Movement Parade. For Pride, the length of Ocean Journey along the Art Deco district is closed to traffic and open expansive to proud South Florida LGBTQ families, friends, co-workers and allies – along with Pride sponsor organizations, groups and businesses.

Miami Beach Pride 2025 will be taking place on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

Register Here for Miami Beach Pride 2025

Our goal is to own a unified showing from the U, complete with students, faculty, staff, alumni, family, and friends. Mention that while all UM students are invited to attend the event for free, all non-students give $20 (i.e. family members, friends, alumni, staff, & faculty). Registration includes bus transportation to and from Miami Beach Pride, the Alumni and Friends Breakfast and event on Miami Beach, an exclusive UPride 2025 t-shirt, and a spot walking in the parade with the UM contingency! Each individual attending Pride must complete a separate registration form.

You can also enter our t-shirt design contest by submitting a design to lgbtq@miami.edu.

Miami Beach Pride is gearing up for its 17th edition in April 2025, continuing its tradition of hosting a globally celebrated FREE Festival and March. The event in Lummus Park, Miami Beach, will feature live performances by world-class DJs, musicians, and celebrity entertainers, alongside committed safe zones such as a Senior Lounge, "Garden of Eve" Women's Tent, a Trans Pavilion, and Calming Pavilion for neurodiverse and disabled individuals. With a focus on inclusivity, all community members, especially families with young children and teens, are also invited to join Miami Beach Pride at its joyful Family Day in Pride Park (3/29) and Pride Parade along Ocean Drive (4/6).

For over 16 years, Miami Beach Movement has been the largest Pride festival in the Southeast, championing social and self-acceptance, legal rights, and visibility. The event serves as a platform to foster conversation, celebrate LGBTQIA+ diversity, and promote a welcoming environment for LGBTQIA+ residents and visitors. Despite rising security and insurance costs, Miami Beach Self-acceptance remains committed to offering the festival for FREE, ensuring access for the most marginalized and underserved

Wynwood Pride

For a long second, Miami had politely excused itself from partaking in annual World Pride Month celebrations. By June, the Miami sun is already hot enough to melt off even the most seasoned drag queen’s complete face—and who wants to plan a parade in the midst of hurricane season? Besides, New York pretty much has the East Coast covered when it comes to Celebration festivities, and April’s Miami Beach Pride is a fun way to boot everything off. At least, this had been the thinking from 1995 until around five years ago, when Wynwood Pride was born.

The annual Pride celebration on the mainland stands defiantly in the tackle of heat waves, tropical storms and gay flight to Fire Island, boldly asserting: We’re here, we’re queer and Miami’s Queer community deserves the world—including a proper World Identity festival celebration alongside everyone else. The concept was to create a more tune and performance-driven atmosphere in the heart of Miami’s booming arts district that appealed to different ages and underserved groups. “The core belief was to be a Pride for everyone,” says Liza Santana, Wynwood Pride’s founding spokespers

The big Miami Beach Event Parade and Festival is just a few days away, and has happened every year for the past 17 years. And this year, organizers are calling on allies and the community to display up more than ever because of laws and proposed legislation that would roll back LGBTQ+ rights.

Organizers say Pride began as a protest for same rights. While it grew into a celebration, they believe new laws threaten progress, and it’s moment to return to its activist roots.

“Now we're getting a huge pushback, and we need to kind of focus more as a protest again,” said Miami Beach Lgbtq+ fest Chairman Bruce Horwich.

For the 17th year in a row, the LGBTQ+ society will gather in numbers on Ocean Drive for the Miami Beach Event parade. But this year, organizers say, as the first Pride event in the nation, Miami Beach has to set the example.

“So, we’re going to be encouraging people to come out to Pride and just by being there and representing up, they're serving the purpose of a protest,” Horwich said

The parade, with colorful floats, eclectic outfits, and diverse people, is now shifting to its roots of activism and protests as lawmakers recommend and enact sweeping legislation rolling back equ

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