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Join us for Pride 2025: Ho‘omau, a celebration of queer resilience, cohesion, and perseverance in the heart of Waikīkī.
Presented by the Hawai‘i LGBT Legacy Foundation, this year’s theme honors the enduring spirit of our LGBTQIA/MVPFAFF+ community and the leaders who’ve helped shape our journey.
Identity festival weekend is from October 16, 2025 - October 18, 2025
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Join us at Hawai‘i’s largest celebration of the gay community! This fabulous procession down Kalākaua Avenue celebrates businesses, non-profit organizations, and individuals who proudly stand with us.
Register TodayWhen the sun goes down, the celebration lights up! The 2025 Honolulu Event Festival features 70+ booths hosted by our community partners and a high-energy, four-hour entertainment lineup.
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Your Insider Guide to Honolulu Lgbtq+ fest Weekend 2024
Photo: Courtesy of Hawai‘i LGBT Legacy Foundation
October has been packed with celebrations of the MVPFAFF/LGBTQIA+ community in honor of Honolulu Pride Month. Now, the big finale weekend is upon us with the highly anticipated parade, festival and more. Look for all of your favorite vivid and bold moments, new additions and a few surprises.
This year, the parade and festival on Saturday, Oct. 19, have been moved later in the night, taking advantage of Waikīkī’s golden hour glow and cooler temperatures. Marina Summers, star of Drag Race Philippines and RuPaul’s Queenly Race UK vs the World, and Nymphia Wind, Taiwanese-American winner of the sixteenth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, will headline the festival.
Also new and noteworthy, the Pink Pony VIP Lounge Pass ($150) gets you VIP festival access, hosted cocktails, bright bites, comfortable seating in front of the main stage, festive cowboy hats and free admission to two additional VIP events during Pride Weekend.
Hosted by the Hawai‘i LGBT Legacy Foundation, the festivities shine a spotli
Honolulu Pride Parade: Waikiki’s Most Colorful Parade
Each year, Honolulu, the epicenter of Hawaii’s “Gathering Place” island of Oʻahu, gathers together all who represent and endorse LGBTQ rights and community for the annual Honolulu Identity festival festival and parade.
Created by the Hawaiʻi LGBT Legacy Foundation, the festivities obtain place yearly in mid-late October and represent the Aloha State’s largest dyke, gay, bisexual, trans person and queer group event.
Love, Friendship and Aloha
Last year’s 2016 gathering was a great success, bringing together the Islands’ richly diverse and thriving LGBTQ group alongside supporting friends, families and fans. What ensued was two nonstop weeks, filled to the gills with excellent times and wonderful vibes, centered on celebrating all things LGBTQ — specifically the bonds of love, friendship and absolute aloha that connects us all.
Over 3,000 Attendees
The apex of the event — the Honolulu Pride Parade — which first began in 1990 was attended by a plethora of locals and visitors alike, boasting more than 3,000 enthusiastic attendees cheering on a prismatic procession of 115 floats spanning every color of the rainbow, 60 parade entra
Honolulu Pride: LGBTQIA+ Events in June 2025
Photo: Tien Enga
The Golden Gays
Through July 6, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Inspired by The Golden Girls, the latest production from Kumu Kahua Theatre follows the fierce and free-spirited Aunty Maria Lani Tunta and her found family of queens. As the queens face their golden years, can they grasp at a second chance? Additional shows were just added for Saturday, July 5, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 6, at 2 p.m.
$8–$28, Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant St., Downtown, kumukahua.org, @kumukahua
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Queen’s Surf Beach Celebration
Wednesday, June 4, 4 to 6 p.m.
Join the community for the special unveiling of a new plaque commemorating Queen’s Surf Beach as a gathering place for Hawai‘i’s diverse LGBTQIA+ Māhū people. Following remarks by the mayor and special guests, you can enjoy a picnic on the lawn, make some new friends and watch the sunset.
Free, 2777 Kalākaua Ave., Waikīkī, queerhistoriesofhawaii.org