Since its humble beginning as a protest march for equal rights in 1974, San Diego Pride has grown into a vital nonprofit organization that functions as the education, advocacy, and arts and culture axis for Southern California’s LGBTQ community. We produce the annual San Diego Pride parade and festival – the largest civic event in the San Diego region – with activities that span a full week, engage over 350,000 individuals, and engage hundreds of LGBTQ performers, visual artists and musicians annually. Secondly, we provide arts and culture, advocacy, and education programs to support and develop the most marginalized sectors of San Diego’s LGBTQ community.San Diego Pride provides over 30 distinct programs and events annually to benefit LGBTQ San Diegans throughout the year including: the Youth Leadership Academy, Orgullo Sin Fronteras (Binational Conference) , She Fest, the #MeTooLGBT Summit, The Trans Day of Empowerment, Pride World Forum, Pride Youth Marching Band, Queer Youth Chorus and Pride Youth Art Show. Since March of 2020, we have transitioned all programming to virtual formats and have engaged over 700,000 LGBTQ community members. As the most philanthropic Pride organization in the world, San Diego Pride has successfully reinvested over $3 Million dollars from our annual festival revenue back into the community through our Pride Community Grant program to support LGBTQ-serving organizations locally, nationally and globally.