Eugene Pride

About this year’s Pride Festival - we received numerous complaints from attendees about two issues: the presence of protesters with large signage and amplified sound inside the festival perimeter and the mistreatment of festival-goers by the Cuthbert-provided parking lot security team. We hear you, and we want to make sure we get a complete picture of how the day went for the community.

If you have video, photos, or a personal account you would like to share about how you were treated by the security team in the parking lot, what you observed regarding the protesters, and/or the response (or lack thereof) from EPD, we would greatly appreciate your help in gathering information.

You can send us a message here or email us at [email protected]. Please know that by sending us this information you are consenting for us to use it in our response to these issues.

Thank you for your help!

We had an amazing day at Pride in the Park this year! Highlights included the overall positive energy of the community, standout performances like B DeVeaux, the activities in the Youth Zone, the significant presence and participation of veterans in our Veterans Village, the introduction of our scholarship recipients on the main stage, the beautiful new Pride flag we dedicated, and enhanced amenities like electric wheelchairs for attendees with mobility issues. We also had the most sponsor, vendor, and exhibitor booths and highest attendance we’ve ever seen!

It’s incredible to see our community come together through adversity. Despite the challenges we faced leading up to the festival and disruption to the event in the afternoon, we had a spectacular day with you all. Thank you for being a part of Pride and making this event so special!

We want to thank all of our sponsors for this year’s festival! This was an incredibly challenging year for the event, and the festival would not have been possible without your generous contributions and steadfast support. We were able to award $15,000 in scholarships to LGBTQ+ students – the most we’ve ever awarded!

Your support also enabled us to arrange shuttles for attendees to park offsite, advertise the available transportation options that we set up to overcome the parking challenges in Alton Baker Park, offer wheelchairs that we could loan out to festival-goers with mobility challenges, and add two additional hours of entertainment on our Community Stage.

In the face of adversity, our sponsors came through to support our community and make this event happen. We are especially grateful to OnPoint Community Credit Union for your many years of contributions to our community as Presenting Sponsor. Thank you all for your support of Pride!

People have asked us if we’re going to step up as a Q***r space now that Eugene has lost its beacon for the LGBTQ community, Spectrum.

The truth is, we could never hope to replace Spectrum, it was singular and beautiful, and burned like a bright flame warding off the darkness to our q***r community.

We also have always championed LGBTQ rights in our space- to the point of standing up to armed protestors as you very well know.

We never set out to be a Q***r bar. We wanted to be a Gothic Fantasy British Pub style dreamland where your disbelief would be suspended and your real world cares lifted, if only for a couple of hours.

We thought, foolishly, that we didn’t need to declare ourself a q***r space. We just were a place where homophobia and transphobia would not be allowed, and OF COURSE q***r people would be safe?? They’re our people, after all. They’re me.

Watching the events that have taken place politically in the last few years in our country, and seeing so many hateful comments about our q***r spaces, we realize we must declare ourselves once and for all a q***r safe space for our community.
We do consider ourselves a q***r bar, in all the fantastic meanings of the word.

The weird, the wonderful, the unaccepted, the downtrodden, the witchy, the wild, and the fringes of our society have always been welcome to gather at our tables, around our fires, and find refuge from the cruelty of the world.

We could never replace Spectrum and we’d never try. And we look forward to what Helen will do in their community to continue to champion Q***r rights. Rest assured they are a powerhouse for good and something special will be their next project.

We also can’t wait for the inevitable moment when someone else steps up and opens another fantastic Q***r space in Eugene.
It will happen, and it will be joyous and beautiful.
Eugene deserves multiple varieties of Gay friendly spaces.

Until then, please know.
We are here, as we ever have been, for almost a decade.
You are safe with us. You are celebrated. You are defended and exalted.

See you soon, friends.

-Emily

Photo of our house Queen Maliena, and I, at Pagan Pride. ❤️

Spectrum Bar, Eugene's only q***r bar, closes After a record breaking turnout of 12,000 people at Eugene Pride on Saturday, Eugene's only dedicated q***r bar officially closed on Sunday, August 11.

Are you a friend of Dorothy? Garland pride is this Saturday which will include a wizard of oz themed drag show!!! (2pm to 9pm)

Photos: Community gathers for annual Pride in the Park

12,000 people attend Pride in the Park Festival Eugene's Pride In the Park Festival returned to Alton Baker Park on Saturday, August 10th.It's a 30-year-old tradition celebrating the le***an, gay, bisexual, q

Wow -we are blown away! What an incredible day of community. Y’all showed up, and Pride this year was absolutely amazing. We will have a lot more to say in coming days and weeks, so stay tuned. For now, we are basking in the amazing vibes and positive energy OUR community brought to this year’s Festival. Thank you!

That’s a wrap for 2024 and Pride is packed away until next year. We appreciate your patience as our all-volunteer team responds to your inquiries, navigates a response to the challenges that we faced this year, and finds some time to recuperate. For now, gratitude.

Photo Credit: Jade Lazaris

How are you getting to Eugene Pride?

If you want to be able to park on site we ask that you grab your friends and carpool with at least 4 people. Be ware you’ll have to turn around and leave if you don’t have at least 4 people in the car.

Unless you have a disability then we welcome you to use the on-site parking.

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How are you getting to Eugene Pride this year?

This year we discourage driving to Pride due to limited parking options at Alton Baker; unless you’re a party of 4 or more, or possess a disabled person parking placard.

Don’t worry you can still arrive in style in one of our many party bus options! There are 6 parking lots you can choose from to park your car and take a bus to Pride.

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How are you getting to Eugene Pride?

What better way to arrive at the Eugene Pride Festival than on a bike? On Saturday, August 10, join Bob Rides and Raining and Old SLUG Queens for a fun, family-friendly bike ride to Eugene Pride Festival in Alton Baker Park!

When & Where: Meet at Monroe Park (Monroe Street & W 10th Avenue) at 11:15am, and kick off for the bike ride at 11:30am. The ride will meander comfortably through town, making a stop at the Farmers Market Pavilion to pick up our SLUG Queens, and then continue to Alton Baker Park for the Eugene Pride Festival! Riders are encouraged to dress up their bikes and themselves in their best Pride fashion.

Comment down below if you’re stoked to ride with the SLUG queens!!

🌈Just like our fore-folks did it, who’s marching with us this year? 🌈

We are incredibly excited to unveil and dedicate this beautiful New Pride Flag tomorrow at 10:30am on our Main Stage. Hand sewn in sewing circles around the state over the last year, we truly have stitched our community together through adversity after our cutting of the original Gilbert Baker Pride flag was stolen last year. Puerto Rican author and vegan activist Julia Feliz conceived the design, and Hayley Brown designed this version of the Pride flag to focus on transgender and q***r people of color.

Thank you to for donating the fabric for this effort, to .arts.council for hosting many of our sewing circles during ArtWalk to create this stunning, one-of-a-kind piece of community art, theater program for loaning us your theater, and to all of the community members who spent hundreds of hours in this labor of love; especially our incredibly talented and ever intrepid lead volunteer and Sober Circle Coordinator – JD Terrapin.

We are inspired and beyond grateful

Come visit OCT this Saturday at Eugene Pride! We'll be signing our friends and neighbors up for a ticket raffle, featuring THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG—visit the festival page for the latest parking and event info, and we'll see you there. 🏳️‍🌈
eugenepride.org

Eugene Pride shares updates on parking and public safety plans The organizers of this year’s Eugene Pride Festival say their earlier concerns about parking and public safety have mostly been resolved.

More Than a Festival – Eugene Weekly More Than a Festival Pride in the Park is a life-saving event for many and needs the support of community leaders Viewpoint by Guest ViewpointPosted on 08/08/2024Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in....

March and Party with Pride – Eugene Weekly Photo courtesy of Eugene Pride March and Party with Pride Culture by Dan BuckwalterPosted on 08/08/2024Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Eugene Prid...

ALL car parking onsite at Pride is reserved for people with disabilities, disabled people and those carpooling with 4 or more people in the vehicle.

Biking to Pride is fast and enjoyable – especially because there will be free valet bike parking once you get there. See this map for details on recommended bike routes from most neighborhoods.

You can also carpool, walk, bike, take the bus, or park and ride. Visit eugenepride.org/festival-24/transportation for a comprehensive guide on all your options!

Pride is renting out the Alton Baker Disc Golf Course for use throughout the day during the festival! Their booth will be open to rent out discs for free to event participants. It’s located near the parking area in the 4+ carpool lot. Never played disc golf? It’s a perfect opportunity to try it out!

Public parking at Alton Baker Park is reserved for people with disabilities and 4+ carpool. With the cancellation of the show at the Cuthbert Amphitheater, we will now be able to accommodate attendees with mobility challenges but who don't have an ADA placard, as well as offer expanded parking for 4+ carpools.

We have 11 parking lots held for Pride parking, and we are offering FREE shuttle service from 6 of those locations. There's also a FREE bike valet, and we will post a code from LTD so that you can take the bus for FREE to Pride, as well.

Visit our website to find the best transportation option for you!

https://www.eugenepride.org/festival-24/transportation

ColumbiaCare will be tabling this Saturday at Eugene Pride Check out www.eugenepride.org for more info. Hope to see you there!
Alton Baker Park, Eugene OR | 10 AM - 7 PM | 8/10/24

We have some incredible entertainment lined up for this year's Festival. From drag to DJs, comedy to poetry, singer/songwriters, dance troupes and more - we are excited to have the most entertainment ever at this year's Pride!

We are especially pleased to be have B DeVeaux on our Main Stage this year - a singer/songwriter, and musician from Oakland who has performed with the likes of Daveed Diggs, Patrice Rushen, Kehlani, and many more. They use their music to voice the issues that the Black community faces and to portray their experience in this world.

There is something for everyone on our stages this year, and we can't wait to hear from all of these incredible artists. Happy Pride!