PrideFest America

Mission Statement

The mission of PrideFest America is to host the nation's preeminent annual GLBT symposium and festival. Our goals are to state a high visibility forum that focuses on regional, national and international organizations and their issues; decrease external homophobia by generating understanding about our breadth, commonality, diversity and impact of homophobia on our lives; and diminish internal homophobia by addressing its causes and presenting individual and community role models. The Board of Directors believes that our civil rights movement needs an annual forum where individually and collectively we gather to consider where we've been, where we are now and what direction to set. We belive that PrideFest America is that forum and as such serves an important role in our emancipation.