Hollywood Boulevard will be blanketed in rainbows this Sunday, June 8 at the 55th annual Los Angeles Pride Parade and Festival.

This year’s theme, “Pride Marches On,” will celebrate the “tenacity and resilience” of the LGBTQ+ community, organizers said.

The free LA Pride event has been put on by nonprofit Christopher Street West for over 50 years, and is the longest-running pride celebration in Southern California, organizers said.

“This year, LA Pride marks a pivotal moment for both the Los Angeles and LGBTQ+ communities,” said board president Gerald Garth. “Despite facing unimaginable challenges, our community has always emerged stronger.”

The theme, Garth said, symbolizes “the strength of our community.”

Over the past six months, a number of executive orders under the Trump administration have targeted members of the LGBTQ+ community, from taking down protections for transgender people, to limited health care access. President Trump also signed an order that recognizes only two genders, male and female.

Trump also threatened to withhold federal funding to California after transgender minor AB Hernandez competed — and won — in multiple events in the CIF State track and field championships on May 31. The U.S. Department of Justice announced its investigation to determine if a state law allowing transgender athletes to compete on female sports teams at California schools violates the Title IX civil rights law.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Trump has “no plans” to issue a proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month. The White House has also not put up a pride progress flag display, despite past years’ displays under the Biden administration. A ban on non-government flags at U.S. embassies was also enforced this year, which many activists say is a veiled way of banning pride flags.

The mile-long route, starting at the corner of Highland Ave. and Sunset Blvd., brings thousands of LGBTQ+ people and allies to the visible streets of Hollywood. Over 120 groups are set to show their colors.

“Pride is woven into the streets, skyline, culture and people of Los Angeles; leaders said, and “LA Pride 2025 will continue to march on toward a better future.”

This year’s Grand Marshals include Grammy-winning and Tony-nominated actor Andrew Rannells, social media influencers Trino Garcia and Adam Vasquez, known as TrinoxAdam, and spouses Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts, who made history in 2022 as the first same-sex couple to be on the cover of Essence magazine.

The all-day Pride Village, a free street fair along Hollywood Boulevard from Argyle Ave. to mid-Bronson Ave., near Hollywood and Vine, offers programming on two stages, with over 100 vendors and exhibitors, food and more. Headlining the event is LGBTQ+ icon Alaska, of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fame, with a special performance by Betts and Da Brat. Also set to perform are 76th Street, Laura Bryna, Julian King and ANG. East L.A.’s popular pop-up market, The Queer Mercado, will also be part of the village.

Celebrity guest Margaret Cho will be judging the crowd-favorite ballroom battle between the legendary houses of Ninja, Miyake Mugler, and Gorgeous Gucci.

As part of the LA Pride festival’s recurring art exhibit, “Trans Galleria,” a new gallery show, “Bring the T,” is dedicated to trans artists and expressions of transness. It will feature themes of discrimination, erasure, activism, determination and fearlessness, organizers said. The exhibit will include mixed media art forms exploring identity, race, intersectionality and gender.

Xochitl Quetzali Carranza, one of the artists featured, said that art became a way for her to escape reality, a “doorway” to process her trans identity before having the language for it.

“I often would draw self-portraits but wouldn’t recognize myself, as I always saw a woman,” she said. “It wasn’t until my teens. when I realized I was trans, that I realized I had been drawing the woman I truly was the entire time.”

Her piece, “The Abyss, is a visual representation of the isolation she said she feels as a trans woman of color.

This year’s L.A. Pride will also honor victims and first responders in the Palisades and Eaton fires that devastated communities in January.  The parade will include a tribute to L.A.’s first responders and aiding organizations.

“No matter the fire, hate or fear, Pride will always forge ahead,” said board president Garth.

Step-off for LA Pride begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The parade starts along Highland Ave. For more information: lapride.org.