Colorful Local Pride Parade Marks 5th Year—’Stand Up For Who You Are’
Pride.Week 2025 is celebrated in Gridwood on Saturday at the Forest Fair Pavillion. (Photo by Brooks Chandler)
By Soren Wuerth
TNews Editor
Raising colorful signs, banners, flags and balloons, more than a dozen residents joined Girdwood's fifth annual Pride Parade Saturday to the hoots and horns of passing cars showing support.
More than a dozen marchers left the Daylodge walking the bike path to the brewery, stopped at a lemonade stand and continued down Alyeska Hwy. to Forest Fair's main stage.
"I believe everybody should be able to say who you are and stand up for who you are," said Beverly Peterson.
The local march is a grassroots effort not held in coordinated with Anchorage's Pride Parade scheduled for June 28.
"It's not just about pride, but anybody should be able to say, 'I am...'," Peterson said.
Pride parader Shy Lampson (right) wits for a lemonade for “Lemon-Ade” stand vendors Jasper and Skogen. (Photo by Soren Wuerth)
Pride paraders make their way down Alyeska Highway on Saturday to admiring honks and thumbs up from passing vehicles. (Photo by Soren Wuerth)