The annual Anchorage Pride Parade and Festival, the largest LGBTQ+ spectacle in Alaska, is scheduled to take place Saturday, June 28, beginning at 11:30 am at the Delaney Park Strip in downtown Anchorage.
Organized by the Alaskans Together Foundation, a nonprofit focused on LGBTQ+ equality and community engagement, the event highlights themes of love, inclusion, and visibility, but also unbridled narcissism. Participants traditionally march with rainbow flags, dressed in vibrant attire, and accompanied by music, floats, and signs expressing solidarity and pride in sexual preference and gawdy mockery of women. Participants have been encouraged to wear their boldest costumes.
The parade route begins at 7th Avenue and E Street, circles the perimeter of the Delaney Park Strip, and concludes at the Celebrate Pride ‘25 Festival. A route map is available on the Alaskans Together Foundation website for spectators and participants.
Grand marshals of the parade include two founders of the Alaskans for Trans Youth organization, which is funded by the Alaska Children’s Trust.
The other grand marshal is former Rep. Mary Peltola.
“Lindsey and Earl Banning are passionate advocates for LGBTQ+ rights and co-founders of Alaskans for Trans Youth (AFTY), a grassroots volunteer group dedicated to empowering and protecting transgender and gender nonconforming youth in Alaska. Since relocating to Alaska in 2022 with their two children as part of an active-duty military family, Lindsey and Earl have continued the advocacy they began in Ohio—organizing pride celebrations, educating communities, and defending trans youth from harmful legislation. Motivated by Lindsey’s experience as a queer parent to a trans teen, both have worked tirelessly to create inclusive, intersectional spaces through testimony at legislative hearings, organizing statewide advocacy fly-ins, collaborating with national partners like Advocates for Trans Equality, and contributing thought pieces to national media. For Lindsey and Earl, this work is personal and transformative—a deeply human commitment to ensuring that all youth, especially trans youth, are safe, seen, and celebrated,” says the description at Alaskans Together Foundation.
Peltola, the group notes, “spent her time in Congress as a tireless advocate for LGBTQ+ rights in Alaska, fighting to keep all Alaskans safe, welcomed, and accepted. Mary is dedicated to building an Alaska where all families can stay in Alaska, raise their kids in Alaska, and watch their grandkids grow up in Alaska.”
The parade will include an entry from the Municipality of Anchorage, courtesy of Mayor Suzanne LaFrance.
The Celebrate Pride ‘25 Festival will run from 11 am to 5 pm, featuring over 130 vendors, including food trucks, craft booths, and nonprofit outreach tents, as well as two entertainment stages. Activities will include burlesque drag performances, musical acts, dancing competitions. Organizers emphasize the festival’s inclusive nature, welcoming allies, families, and the wider Anchorage community, but it may not be family friendly to many Alaskans.
Saturday evening, a ticketed drag show dance party will take place at Williwaw Social on F Street, starting at 8:30 pm. Notable performers include Irene the Alien from RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 10, Auntie Heroine and Frankie Doom from The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, and Ruby Fox. Local DJs Rachel Monae, Sunkat, and BADDBAUX will also perform.
While Anchorage Pride has historically drawn hundreds of attendees, this year’s turnout remains uncertain. National attention in recent days has been focused on international tensions following reported bombings at Iranian nuclear facilities and high-profile developments in immigration enforcement, which may affect local engagement. It remains to be seen whether the indulgence-oriented festival seems frivolous, considering world events.
Registration for new groups to join the 2025 parade has closed.
I’m sure the tourists will enjoy the depravity.
Don’t judge others because they sin differently than you do.
Gay fatigue.
Celebrating gender dysphoria, perversion, and depraved. fetishes is sick.
That’s all this behaviour is …
Gender mutilation much?
My body, my choice right – except when it came to BigPharma experimental gene therapy aka as Covid shots.
‘Pride…, narcissism…, burlesque drag performers…, and bold costumes… !’ How thrilling, especially for the trans kiddos and their parents! Plus, Mary Peltola is the honored grand marshal of the parade!
No. There will come a day of reckoning, when it will have been better for the shameful, gender-bending parents of impressionable children had they been thrown into the sea with a great millstone hung around their necks. This event is an abomination.
Sorry Mary, but the families that encourage or allow their kids to be groomed into trans “men” or “women” at school (often without parental notification), after the hormone intervention and/or surgeries…none of those children will be able to grow up and have children ( and thus, no grandchildren either)….so much for family values….
Drag Queen show?
That ought to keep the ASSembly busy for a night or two of “family fun”.
Dear Mary, “When you lay down with pigs, you get up smelling like them! You truly have sunk to a new low!”
The scary part about “Proud Mary” is the number of votes she received in the past selection with her campaign signs in a lot of yards in Anchorage as well as rural villages who haven’t a clue what the gender dysphoria bunch have planned for native youth.
Mary keeps picking losing causes. She has zero internal compass. Expect to hear from these pride marchers, as is heard now in so many of these events in the Lower 48, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” They don’t even hide it anymore.
Will she conclude the day by spontaneously becoming a man?
One cannot take or have pride in something that is (supposedly) just an accident of birth.
So somebody here, one of the radical leftist troll brigade, please explain to me how one can feel “gay pride”. In my mind, it would make as much sense as feeling “pride” in having blue eyes or brown hair.
A proud Alaskan ….. Irish pride.
Bonefest?
Many have wondered if there’s anything you’re good at. Now’s your opportunity to show us what you’ve got.
Choke that bad microphone down, Forrest.
Thank you for revealing these organizations–Alaskans Together Foundation, Alaskans for Trans Youth, and Advocates for Trans Equality that receive endorsements or taxpayer funding from Alaska Children’s Trust, Municipality of Anchorage, and one term Rep. Mary Peltola (D). I’m sure the local media will report the “family” appropriate event that can be recycled in future re-election campaign materials against current MOA mayor or representative. Visitors and residents stay away as you can’t take away the images of drag queens on parade.
These people can do mostly what they want; I don’t care about private conduct. Problems arise in two areas: When children are involved AND when folks start DEMANDING – even in the law – that I must behave in certain ways or indulge in fantasies. No person can compel me to say something I do not believe or force me to agree to nonsense. Freedom of thought and conscience is the essence of a free society. I will fight to the death to defend it.
I’m reminded of the book of Isaiah chapter 5:20.
Take a look at the sponsors. Use their competitors! If the sponsors receive any state funds they should have to be returned.
Rainbows … scantily clad men dressed as women … butch women trying to look like men … beads … elected personnel proclaiming how diverse they are … drag shows … trans kids. It’s becoming cliche. Yawn. Putting condoms on bananas and AIDS education is passé. So 1980s.
Gay trans fatigue.
Don’t worry, folks, Mary will be a no-show like her time in Congress…
The sad, emptiness of these people. God is calling, if you will listen.
“Who am I to judge?”
= Pope Francis
Correct the Pope does not judge, God does.
There is no such thing. You have been deceived.
Pope Francis – the most evil, demonic, luceferian Pope in the modern era.
That’s why the Cardinals, actually did the right thing and elected Pope Leo after the absolute shxx show “Francis the abominable” that we Catholics had to endure.
Please pull your head out of your arse.
Thx
The pederasts’ lifestyle has been touted and promoted by the woke and left across N. America for quite some time. For a while Public Media seemed to be preparing us for the next level which as they seemed to see as sex with animals. So far as I can see the push back following the Obama administration has stemmed arrival of this next level, permanently I hope.
I would have hoped that Alaska would be immune from all this, but with Republicans in the Legislature organizing with Democrats in order to isolate family-oriented elected Republicans I expect this battle will persist for some time. Huge amounts of outside money will continue to come in to support Democrats in Alaska elections and we should expect to see AFLCIO leadership, the Alaska Education Association, public employee unions, the Alaska Municipal League (funded by our property taxes), Planned Parenthood and other woke agencies supporting the woke agenda at every level.
Dang.
The truth.
Thank you
Just when I was thinking we could get through June without “pride” rammed down our throats by every company, business, and organization… here comes the LGBTQWERTY+ crowd.
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Seriously kids. We get it. You’re not heteronormal. We just do not care. Our apathy toward you is not hate, it is the opposite of hate, we just cannot possibly care less about who you choose to be, or have sex with. Just keep it out of our face. If a gay couple wants to hold hands in public, frankly I doubt I would even notice. But when that same gay couple points out they are holding hands in public, and tells the public they must be proud of them for doing so… well… that is a problem for the public at large.
Actually,CB, you seem to care quite a bit aboutLGBT.
I’m going to wear my “No child is born in the wrong body” T shirt…and My MAGA hat.
I’m going to film exactly how many seconds it takes before I get assaulted by the mob.
I am praying for their safety.
Sexual sin seems to be the hardest one to overcome these days, but “Willie was set free from a 15-year addiction to pornography. Bill found victory over his exhibitionism at the Cross. Sam overcame homosexuality and went on to live a normal Christian life.” -At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry by Steve Gallagher
Between this, No Kings, and the Nellie concert, downtown will be completely fuct