Iowa City Pride will celebrate its 50th Annual Iowa City Pride Festival, Iowa's longest-running LGBTQ Pride celebration, with a variety of different virtual events with in person events canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s theme is “Our Pride We Will Maintain”.

All of the below videos will be posted on Iowa City Pride's Facebook. 

  • 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 - Queer BIPOC Transgender Discussion - Where Do We Go From Here? 
  • 7 p.m. Thursday, June 18 - Dance Your Call-to-Action Off. 
  • 11 a.m. Saturday, June 20 - Virtual Parade.
  • 7 p.m. Thursday, June 25 - Your Word is Your Truth, Pride Solidarity.
  • Various times Saturday, June 27th - Broadcasting global Pride events via Facebook and Youtube.

Iowa City Pride has created yard signs to go with the virtual parade. Orders may be placed online. Each yard sign is $20. All proceeds from sales will support community endeavors. Other 50th Anniversary merchandise is available on Iowa City’s Pride online store.  A list of all events can be found on Iowa City Pride's Facebook page.

Date of publication

Monday, June 15, 2020