The organization is a leader in the metro Phoenix LGBTQ+ community. Under the leadership of Phoenix Pride, there has been an annual march, festival, parade, or celebration in metro Phoenix for almost 40 years. The organization was created as an educational non-profit to continue to educate and promote issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community in metro Phoenix. helped establish the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization known today as Phoenix Pride.
This committee, best known at the time as the Phoenix Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, Inc. Nearly ten years later, a group of volunteers joined together to coordinate the annual Pride festival. It was a politically focused march to bring awareness to gay rights issues in Phoenix. In 1981, a group of gay & lesbian activists organized the first Pride march through the streets of downtown Phoenix to the state Capitol building.
