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Miami Beach Pride Parade

Every year, the University of Miami takes a contingency to the Miami Beach Pride Parade. For Pride, the length of Ocean Trip along the Art Deco district is closed to traffic and open expansive to proud South Florida LGBTQ families, friends, co-workers and allies – along with Pride sponsor organizations, groups and businesses.

Miami Beach Self-acceptance 2025 will be taking place on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

Our goal is to have a unified showing from the U, complete with students, faculty, staff, alumni, family, and friends. Note that while all UM students are invited to attend the event for free, all non-students remunerate $20 (i.e. family members, friends, alumni, staff, & faculty). Registration includes bus transportation to and from Miami Beach Pride, the Alumni and Friends Breakfast and event on Miami Beach, an exclusive UPride 2025 t-shirt, and a spot walking in the parade with the UM contingency! Each individual attending Pride must conclude a separate registration form.

You can also enter our t-shirt design contest by submitting a blueprint to lgbtq@miami.edu.

Miami Beach's annual Pride Parade celebrates the LGBTQ community's impact in South Florida, but attendees said that this year feels diverse with government policies they sense roll back some protections.

Eugene Hogan and Joann Dareus come to the Pride Parade on Ocean Drive every year.

"Been out and proud for 20 plus years," Hogan said. "So, this is my thing."

They got here preceding Sunday for a seat right at 11th Street and Ocean. The parade went from Ocean Drive from 5th Street to 15th Street.

Meanwhile, Chere Pratas brought Florida International University students down here to learn more about the Pride movement in South Florida.

"For some of them, it's their first time here," Pratas said. "So, we're just opening up their eyes to a new experience."

Protection rollbacks

Attendees told CBS News Miami that this year's parade has a different experience since it's happening during a flurry of policy changes coming out of Washington, D.C., that they feel target the LGBTQ community.

Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration has rolled back DEI programs in the federal government and frozen grants. The president also signed an executive instruct declaring that the U.S. governme

Wynwood Pride

For a long period, Miami had politely excused itself from partaking in annual World Pride Month celebrations. By June, the Miami sun is already hot enough to melt off even the most seasoned drag queen’s packed face—and who wants to plan a parade in the midst of hurricane season? Besides, New York pretty much has the East Coast covered when it comes to Celebration festivities, and April’s Miami Beach Pride is a fun way to strike everything off. At least, this had been the thinking from 1995 until around five years ago, when Wynwood Pride was born.

The annual Pride celebration on the mainland stands defiantly in the tackle of heat waves, tropical storms and gay flight to Fire Island, boldly asserting: We’re here, we’re queer and Miami’s Gay community deserves the world—including a proper World Event celebration alongside everyone else. The concept was to create a more melody and performance-driven atmosphere in the heart of Miami’s booming arts district that appealed to different ages and underserved groups. “The core belief was to be a Pride for everyone,” says Liza Santana, Wynwood Pride’s founding spokespers

The big Miami Beach Pride Parade and Festival is just a few days away, and has happened every year for the past 17 years. And this year, organizers are calling on allies and the community to demonstrate up more than ever because of laws and proposed legislation that would roll back Gay rights.

Organizers say Event began as a protest for equivalent rights. While it grew into a celebration, they accept new laws threaten progress, and it’s time to refund to its activist roots.

“Now we're getting a vast pushback, and we need to thoughtful of focus more as a activism again,” said Miami Beach Pride Chairman Bruce Horwich.

For the 17th year in a row, the LGBTQ+ community will gather in numbers on Ocean Operate for the Miami Beach Pride pride. But this year, organizers say, as the first Self-acceptance event in the nation, Miami Beach has to place the example.

“So, we’re going to be encouraging people to come out to Pride and just by entity there and exhibiting up, they're serving the purpose of a protest,” Horwich said

The parade, with colorful floats, eclectic outfits, and diverse people, is now shifting to its roots of advocacy and protests as lawmakers propose and enact sweeping legislation rolling back equ