GET LOUD! A Trans Solidarity Protest & Pride Parade
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Join us as we GET LOUD this Pride Month, with a Trans Solidarity Protest & Pride Parade!
You're welcome to bring signs & flags of your own, but we have plenty available! (We just need hands to hold them!)
No "booming" noisemakers or snare drums.
Be colorful and bright and proud!
The plan:
✊10:30am - 11:30am
We are joining Protest for Progress at Monument Park (downtown GR) for an hour of public protest and visible support for the Trans & Queer community!
✊11:30am - 12:00pm
We will pack up and then march over to GR Pride Festival at Calder Plaza!
✊12:00pm - 12:15pm
Our parade will march through the Festival grounds (1.5 loops), ending at the Festival stage. As we march, we will encourage people to join us! There will be music, chants, pride, and joy.
✊12:20pm - 12:55pm
Once at the Festival stage at Calder Plaza, there will be speakers, chants, and performers, focusing on Trans resiliency and Trans joy.
✊12:55pm
Stay for GR Pride Center's Executive Director, Jazz McKinney, for Pride Festival 2026 Opening Remarks!
This event is cohosted by Protest for Progress, Grand Rapids Trans Foundation, and Grand Rapids Pride Center.
You're welcome to bring signs & flags of your own, but we have plenty available! (We just need hands to hold them!)
No "booming" noisemakers or snare drums.
Be colorful and bright and proud!
The plan:
✊10:30am - 11:30am
We are joining Protest for Progress at Monument Park (downtown GR) for an hour of public protest and visible support for the Trans & Queer community!
✊11:30am - 12:00pm
We will pack up and then march over to GR Pride Festival at Calder Plaza!
✊12:00pm - 12:15pm
Our parade will march through the Festival grounds (1.5 loops), ending at the Festival stage. As we march, we will encourage people to join us! There will be music, chants, pride, and joy.
✊12:20pm - 12:55pm
Once at the Festival stage at Calder Plaza, there will be speakers, chants, and performers, focusing on Trans resiliency and Trans joy.
✊12:55pm
Stay for GR Pride Center's Executive Director, Jazz McKinney, for Pride Festival 2026 Opening Remarks!
This event is cohosted by Protest for Progress, Grand Rapids Trans Foundation, and Grand Rapids Pride Center.
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Where is it happening?
Monument Park, 3 Fulton St E, Grand Rapids, MI 49503-32ND, United States
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Host or PublisherGrand Rapids Trans Foundation
