San Diego Pride announces plans for 2021 in light of continuing COVID-19 pandemic
The popular annual Pride Parade and Festival will be on a hiatus for another year, and San Diego Pride will host a virtual streaming Pride Live event and will also produce a number of smaller, COVID-19 compliant in-person events across the county.
After months of planning and consideration, San Diego Pride recognizes that in 2021 there is still no certain path to safely produce Pride events at the same immense scale we did prior to the pandemic. Instead, San Diego Pride will host a virtual streaming Pride Live event that can be viewed safely from home and will also produce a number of smaller, COVID-19 compliant, and scalable in-person satellite events across San Diego County to allow us the ability to adapt to the changing state of public health guidance while allowing our community to participate in the ways they feel most supported and safe.
For decades, San Diego Pride has brought together hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate, mourn, and protest while raising millions of dollars to support the LGBTQ community locally, nationally, and globally. In 2020, COVID-19 stripped away funding and completely changed the way San Diego Pride served our community. Our community could not meet in person, yet Pride virtually reached more than 700,000 people, more people than ever before.
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