2025 Phoenix Pride Rainbows Festival

The 2025 Phoenix Pride Rainbows Festival weekend is slated for Saturday and Sunday, April 5 to 6, 2025, at the Heritage Square Historic District in downtown Phoenix. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days. It will feature two stages of entertainment, exhibitors and the festival.

The Rainbows Festival is free, open to the public, family-friendly and pet friendly. It’s Arizona’s largest annual LGTBQ+ community street fair. Organizers say this year will feel different because of what is happening in the world.

Executive Director of Phoenix Pride Mike Fornelli said, “Our community is being targeted with hateful and harmful policies at a pace and on a scale we haven’t seen in decades.”

Jeremy Helfgot, of J.M. Helfgot Communications, joined “Arizona Horizon” to talk about the 2025 festival.

This event is “the second largest annual LGBTQ+ event in Arizona” Helfgot said.

They are expecting a crowd of more than 20,000 throughout the weekend. There will be a “couple of hundreds of exhibitors, community organizations, food, entertainment, wonderful time and an opportunity to gather as a community in a time that’s been incredibly difficult for some in our population,” said Helfgot.

“It certainly will be a celebration of community. This is a chance for people to come together and be in a place that’s accepting, that’s safe, welcoming. Folks in the community are striving, hungering for that right now. Obviously, the LGBTQ+ community has been under the harshest attack we’ve seen maybe in U.S. history in the last two months. Attempts to erase history, attempts to erase the transgender population from really legal and noted existence, and we’re going to be together, reminding everyone in the community that they’re not alone, that we’re continuing to fight, that we’re active, and we’re going to be seen this weekend, which is critical,” said Helfgot.