Twin Cities Pride 2026

Twin Cities Pride is one of the largest LGBTQ+ events in the United States, drawing over 400,000 participants to Loring Park in Minneapolis over the last full weekend of June. The event centres on Loring Park — the traditional heart of Minneapolis's LGBTQ+ community — with a festival stretching across the park's grounds, multiple stages of entertainment, hundreds of community and corporate exhibitors, food and drink vendors, and the full programme of activities associated with a pride celebration of this scale. The parade on Sunday is one of the longest-running pride parades in the Midwest, travelling through downtown Minneapolis to the park. Twin Cities Pride is operated by Twin Cities Pride, the non-profit organisation that has been producing the event since 1972. The late-June timing coincides with Minneapolis's finest weather: warm, long-daylight days with temperatures in the high 20s Celsius, a welcome contrast to the brutal winters that make the summer all the more cherished by Minneapolis residents. The attendance figure of 400,000+ relative to the Twin Cities metro's population makes this one of the proportionally largest pride events in the country.