Pride Sponsorships 2025

Tri-Cities Pride

In Pasco, Washington, the Tri-Cities Pride Festival is planned for June 22. Organizers there said that support for Pride has mostly stayed steady. They currently have 35 exhibitors signed up for the event, and while they had 54 in 2024, it’s not a cause for concern yet: Kenzie Budgie, the Communications Chair on the Tri-Cities Pride board said that last year many of their exhibitor sign-ups came in a last minute rush. 

“Something we have all noticed as a board and just as we organize this event is that you can definitely see a sense of excitement in the people that are signing up to participate from the businesses, the vendors, the exhibitors, the performers — there's this very unified front of excitement because this community knows that we need it right now,” Budgie said. They added that for folks looking to get involved, there’s still time to sign up to sponsor, exhibit, perform or volunteer at the event. 

“There is so much fear and anxiety and just unknown surrounding the political state of the world right now,” Budgie said. “ But I think that fear also inspires so much hope and so much resilience and so much push and drive to be like, ‘No, we are here and we are going to celebrate and we are going to be happy.’”

Read the full article here: Local Pride Organizers Remain ‘Cautiously Optimistic,’ as Corporate Sponsorships Drop