Parade Entry

This is where you go to apply for an entry in the 2025 Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade. The Parade will begin at 10 AM on Palm and Olive. We strongly encourage anyone who is not driving one of the vehicles in the parade to park at Fresno City College in the morning and use the free bus transportation that we provide. This year for safety reasons, nothing may be thrown from your vehicle or float. 

This year the parade will again be broadcast live on local television, with color commentators, so make sure you smile for the cameras! 

Staging area: 

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The northeast corner of Olive & Palm Avenues.  Once there, check in with our staff in 2025 Pride t-shirts. You will receive an email prior to the parade letting you know what staging area you are in, where you need to go and where in the order of the parade you are. Our staff will give you the number to place on the driver’s side of your vehicle’s grill.  If you are marching the number needs to be visible to the right front of your entry. Please check in with our staff at Palm and Olive! make sure your number is affixed to the right side of your vehicle so that we can make sure we are announcing the correct entry. 

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Please do not park in the staging lot unless you have been directed to by OUR staff.

Olive Avenue will be closed to traffic early in the morning and the Parade starts at 10 am.  You can set up your entry as early as 7am, BUT MUST be checked in by 9 am.

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The Parade ends at Maroa Avenue, and you must turn left at Maroa Avenue to exit.  NOBODY MAY EXIT THE VEHICLE/FLOAT until it is at Fern & Maroa.  Please contact all of your Parade participants in your contingent and share this information.

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For safety reasons, the City has put into place that nothing may be shot or thrown out as part of your parade entry.  Littering citations will be given out.

Fresno Police Department requires that all decorated vehicles and floats MUST LEAVE the parade area immediately following their turn in the parade and not be parked in the neighborhood.

Due to increasing costs of insurance and road closure, we have made an adjustment to the fee schedule, this is our first price increase in 10 years, but we are still more affordable than most parades to participate in! We hope to see you all at the parade this year!