🌈 JUST ANNOUNCED! PRIDE ON THE PIER IS COMING! HAPPY PHILLY PRIDE!! 🌈✊🏿✊🏾
On Friday, June 5th, we bring you PRIDE ON THE PIER: A Celebration and Centering of Black and brown queer joy! This is the OFFICIAL and ONLY way to kick off Philly Pride weekend! 🌈
🖤 THREE stages, EIGHT djs, ONE massive party on the waterfront for the entire LGBTQ community 🤯
🤎 Hosted by @sazonpartyphl and @jacenbowman and @phillyblkpride 🥰
❤️ Multiple bars with food & drinks available all night!! 🍔
🧡 Plenty of room for the ENTIRE LGBTQ family 🙌🏾🙌🏾
💛Pop-up live performances 💃🏽
💚 Surprise DJs, hosts, and Pride activations 🌈
💙Over 1500 beautiful LGBTQ fam!
💜Views views views of the Philly waterfront! 🌊
This is the Pride party Philly deserves and we can’t wait to celebrate Black and brown queer joy overlooking the water. Happy Pride, Philly!
This event is 21+
🌈 BE OUT. BE PROUD. BE THERE. 🌈
#swayphilly #phillypride #wlw
My heart is so full !!!! I have no voice and that’s ok !!!
Grateful. Humbled. Proud.
As President of @phillyblkpride I just want to say thank you. To every volunteer, partner, sponsor, performer, vendor, and community member who showed up and poured into this week you made it unforgettable.
27 years of legacy, and we’re still building, still pushing, still creating space where Black queer folks can be fully seen, celebrated, and loved.
This is bigger than events. This is movement. This is family.
From my heart thank you for believing in Philly Black Pride and for continuing to rise with us.
With love,
Jacen Bowman
President, Philly Black Pride
Had the chance to sit down with Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor @austindavispa for a really honest and meaningful conversation on #AdJacenT centered around the pardon process, rehabilitation, and why second chances matter.
We talked about what it means to believe people are more than the worst mistake they’ve ever made and how creating pathways for redemption can truly change lives, families, and entire communities across the Commonwealth.
These conversations are important, especially at a time when so many people are trying to rebuild their lives and deserve the opportunity to move forward with dignity.
Catch the full interview now on my YouTube page. Make sure y’all like, share, comment, and subscribe. 💜
Get them tickets in my bio 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 FREE RSVP !!!
For the 3rd year in a row, @housesofluv , @phillyblkpride , and @rootspicnic are intentionally creating space for LGBTQ+ artists to not only be seen, but celebrated. In a time where so much of our community is being challenged, politicized, and pushed to the margins, creating platforms where queer talent can shine feels more important than ever.
Representation matters. Visibility matters. Opportunity matters.
To continue seeing Black queer artists, performers, creatives, and storytellers centered on stages this big means everything. Proud to see culture, community, and music continue to come together in such a powerful way.
Tickets on sell now !!
It’s that time of year, and you already KNOW how we’re coming❤️🔥 The Roots Picnic Pride Soiree is back for another year of Black, LGBTQ+ Celebration🌈✨Presented by @housesofluv .
If you came last year then you already know we’re about to have a TIME🪩 and if missed out… let’s not make that mistake this year! 🙂↕️❤️
MAY 28TH 2026 📍Warehouse on Watts
RSVP for FREE at ROOTSPICNIC.COM/PRIDE
Thank you to everyone who showed up and showed love at our City Hall flag raising. To stand in that space, together, in full visibility and pride it means everything.
Deep gratitude to @phillymayor for issuing the official proclamation declaring Philly Black Pride Week, and to Councilmember Rue Landau, Tito Valdés from the Office of LGBT Affairs, and the City Representatives Office for continuing to stand with and uplift our community.
And to every changemaker, leader, and community member in attendance this moment was because of you. Your presence, your work, your love continues to move us forward.
27 years strong, and we’re still rising.
This is our city. This is our pride.
The Road to Pride podcast created space for something deeper than conversation it centered truth, history, and lived experience. 🎙️🏳️🌈
Through storytelling from former board members Landis and Miss Deborah, the episode highlighted just how much of our past still echoes in the present. The same challenges, the same fights for visibility, respect, and sustainability still showing up today in different forms.
This is why documenting our stories matters. It connects generations, preserves legacy, and ensures that the lessons learned aren’t lost.
Philly Black Pride stands on decades of resilience, and conversations like this remind us that the work continues with intention, with awareness, and with community at the center.
Thank you @hunguppod and @keepinitabeanpod for coming together and keeping the conversation intentional and rooted in joy ❤️
Queerly Beloved was truly a moment. ✨
The energy, the art, the community everything came together under one roof in the most powerful way. This is what Pride feels like.
From the performances to the crowd, the love in that room was undeniable. And yes… if you were there, you already know 🔥 @arielj.music 🔥 did what needed to be DONE.
Alongside some of Philly’s dopest LGBTQ+ artists:
@chiefsayso@alahjidaquan@jayrenae__@dillyn.b@kameelahwaheed@princedevv@iamqveen@freshcupofjeaux@loveleetheepoet@jdefinitionofficial@imzookiebaby
Soundscapes by @ashthadj 🔥
Major love to @twolocals for opening your space and holding us down.
We’re already looking forward to running this back even bigger next year.
Queerly Beloved we gathered in art, in community, and in PRIDE. 🏳️🌈
The weekend ended exactly how it needed to—outside, in community, and full of energy. 🏳️🌈✨
The Block Party at @woodysphilly , hosted by @simplyphiladelphia@simply.philadelphia and @thephirmbiz , was the perfect close to Philly Black Pride. Music in the streets, love in every corner, and a reminder that our joy is power.
From start to finish, this weekend was about us—and ending it surrounded by community like that? Unmatched.
Thrive wasn’t just a summit it was a space to pour back into us
During Philly Black Pride, the Thrive Queer Empowerment Summit brought together community, conversation, and care in a way that felt intentional and necessary. From wellness to leadership, from healing to strategy, we created room for Black LGBTQ+ folks to be seen, supported, and strengthened.
This is what empowerment looks like. Not just showing up—but investing in each other, in our growth, and in our future.
The work continues… but so does the healing.
Rooted Wellness was more than a moment it was a reset. 🌿🏳️🌈
In the middle of all the celebration, we made space for our community to breathe, stretch, heal, and reconnect. From a sound bath to a healing circle to sports activations that got our bodies moving, every part of this experience was intentional.
We showed up for our physical health, our mental wellness, and each other.
That’s what Philly Black Pride is about too creating spaces where joy and care can exist at the same time.
Wellness is resistance. Community is medicine. And Rooted Wellness reminded us of both.
