Twin Cities Pride

[3] Other Twin Cities Pride events include a festival in Loring Park and a block party spanning multiple days.

[6] In 1983, the two events reunified to form "Lesbian and Gay Pride" and was accompanied by the historic closure of a Minneapolis street for the Parade.

[6][8] Tensions also arose around the AIDS crisis, with a 1985 attempt to charge an entrance fee to the festival sparking public backlash.

[9] Events organized in June by Twin Cities Pride in the mid-2010s include family picnics, music concerts, a 5K run, and a festival featuring hundreds of exhibitors and vendors.

[11][12] Twin Cities Pride parades now attract almost 400,000 viewers in its route along Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis.

Organizers cancelled their virtual event and endorsed an alternate "Taking Back Pride" march centering Black transgender people and protesting police involvement.

Marchers going down Nicollet Mall holding signs. In front is a big banner saying GAY PRIDE
A 1973 march in Minneapolis for 'Gay Pride'
Gay Pride Day Poster, June 28, 1975