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The Grand Rapids Pride Festival (GRPF) returns for its 37th year! Join us on June 21st and 22nd, 2025, to celebrate the West Michigan 2-SLGBTQ+ community and support local businesses, organizations, and artists. Pride is a protest and space for radical interconnectedness. At our festival, you will find 150+ vendors, a beer garden (including non-alcoholic beverages), activities for all ages, food trucks, a sensory space, and local, statewide, and nationally recognized performers on our entertainment stage! This annual event takes place to gather 2-SLGBTQ+ folks and their allies in a safe, open, and inclusive environment, loud and proud.
Dates
Jun 21, 2025 · 12:00 PM - Jun 22, 2025 · 8:00 PM(GMT-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Parking instructions
Please utilize any metered parking or any paid city lot.
Health & safety
For the safety and comfort of all participants, we are highly recommending all attendees to observe the following precautions:
• Wear face masks, except when eating or drinking
• Maintain physical distance when possible
• Testing the day before coming to Pride Festival
Hand sanitizer stations and face masks will be available on-site.
If you are experiencing any cold/flu-like symptoms, have COVID-19, MPox or any other communicable disease or think you may have been exposed, please stay home.
Sponsors
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Gilead Sciences
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Grand Rapids Asian Pacific Foundation
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Justice 4 ALL
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Left of Center Productions
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Varnum LLP
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Grand Valley State University Division of People, Equity, and Culture
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Women's+ Health Collective and Grand Rapids Specialty Therapy
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Volunteers
Interested in applying:
18 active applications
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2025
Help us setup for pride festival! Which includes setting up tables and chairs for vendors, setting out and arranging patio furniture, moving kegs and setting up the beer garden, hanging up signage, setting up tables and chairs for the food court, putting up tents, unloading uhauls, etc.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
Dinner will be provided!
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SATURDAY-Volunteers in the beer garden may assist with selling beer/drink tickets, checking ID's, distributing wristbands for guests ages 21+, pouring beer from kegs, refilling ice coolers, making mixed drinks, making sure the beer tents and surrounding area are clean and free of trash, emptying trash cans in the beer garden as needed, etc.
Beer Garden Lead Volunteers must be TIPS certified.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SATURDAY.
Entertainment volunteers support the Emcee (DeeDee Chaunte) and Stage Managers (Cassidy Davis and Darius Colquitt) with various needs. This includes, but is not limited to, food & drink runs, entertainment check-ins, entertainment transportation (from green room to side-stage), stage and backstage clean up, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 1 on Michigan/Ottawa. Therapists at this location will also help tag team folks who may need services at the Sensory Area, right across from this table.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SATURDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 3 near Ottawa and Lyon
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SATURDAY! Help us keep the festival clean! Duties include picking up trash off the ground, clearing trash off any tables and chairs, overseeing the recycling area to ensure festival attendees are recycling properly, emptying recycling and garbage bins, help transport water and ice as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
Help us on Saturday evening start prep for Sunday morning. Some moving and cleaning, assisting vendors that are only vending Saturday, etc.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY ! Help us keep the festival clean! Duties include picking up trash off the ground, clearing trash off any tables and chairs, overseeing the recycling area to ensure festival attendees are recycling properly, emptying recycling and garbage bins, help transport water and ice as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY- Volunteers in the beer garden may assist with selling beer/drink tickets, checking ID's, distributing wristbands for guests ages 21+, pouring beer from kegs, refilling ice coolers, making mixed drinks, making sure the beer tents and surrounding area are clean and free of trash, emptying trash cans in the beer garden as needed, etc.
Beer Garden Lead Volunteers must be TIPS certified.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY.
Entertainment volunteers support the Emcee (DeeDee Chaunte) and Stage Managers (Cassidy Davis and Darius Colquitt) with various needs. This includes, but is not limited to, food & drink runs, entertainment check-ins, entertainment transportation (from green room to side-stage), stage and backstage clean up, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
Sunday morning. Help us check in vendors, guide them to their booth spaces, assist vendors with booth setup as needed, etc.
Deadline:
Jun 19, 2025
SUNDAY. Volunteers in the sensory area will oversee the area and help folks using the space get water, seating, etc. as well as cleaning the space after folks leave.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 1 on Michigan and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 2 in front of Calder Plaza.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY. The festival information volunteer will provide general festival info and accessibility info to festival guests. Volunteers will be stationed at the Info Tent 3 on the corner of Lyon and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
SUNDAY. Volunteer therapists will provide therapy services for folks as needed. Volunteers will be stationed at Info Tent 3 near Lyon and Ottawa.
Information about the festival, first aid supplies, and a therapist will all be accessible at this location.
Deadline:
Jun 20, 2025
Help us start tearing down tents, folding up tables and chairs, picking up trash, etc. as the event closes out on Sunday evening.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
Deadline:
Jun 22, 2025
Help us fold up tables and chairs, picking up trash, pack up all the left over event bins, etc. to finish cleaning the street up on Monday June, 23rd.
If you sign up AFTER June 1st, we cannot guarantee a volunteer shirt.
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Festival Map 2025 (Saturday)
Festival Map 2025 (Sunday)
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Hosted by Grand Rapids Pride Center
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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, United States 
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