PHL Pride volunteers (from left) Maso Kibble, Ashley Coleman, Tyrell Brown, and Jeremy Williams. The principles include: keeping members of the LGBTQ+ community safe centering voices of color honoring the legacies of LGBTQ+ activists of color prioritizing local community businesses and Philly residents and being accessible to people with disabilities and those whose primary language is not English. PHL Pride Collective developed “Points of Unity,” a list of principles that have served as guiding stars while planning this year’s Pride events.
“We want stories focused on us and not on the past,” Carson said. Schroeckenthaler emphasized that changes to this year’s “PHL Pride 50” is not just a response to the issues of previous Philly Prides, but is an effort to better serve long-standing needs within the diverse LGBTQ+ community. Philly Pride Presents faced criticism after posting transphobic and factually incorrect and pro-police history of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in a Facebook post. PHL Pride Collective was created after the previous Pride organization, Philly Pride Presents, dissolved in 2021. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
