PHOENIX PRIDE INC

The 42nd annual 2-day phoenix pride festival continued to be a gathering created to educate the public about the existence and continuing civil rights battle of the metropolitan phoenix lgbtq community, as well as for the general public to celebrate the existence of its lgbtq community. The festival had over 34,000 attendees and presented over 235 exhibitors and over 200 entertainment performances on 7 stages. Participation by government officials, government services, private corporations and celebrities continued to make the general public aware of their support for a prosperous lgbtq community. Funding from the pride festival funded 64,950 in community grants awarded to 14 lgbtq nonprofit organizations and programs achieve their mission. In addition, 53,000 in program funding went to the phoenix pride scholarship fund, administered through the arizona community foundation, from which ten 10 5,000 college scholarships and three 3 1,000 athletic scholarships were awarded to local lgbtq college student applicants.