The Tucson Pride Archives®© preserves
the most comprehensive collections documenting
the actual early histories of how the Pride of being
Gay & Lesbian was first celebrated annually
each Spring in Tucson, Arizona

By 1978 later Tucson Gay-Lesbian organizations held their
own styles of annual Pride versions organized first into
'Gay Pride Picnics' aka Festivals along the lines of other states
and cities such as Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco,
San Diego, and New York City    

Tucson Pride Archives collections document
the many later successive organizations &
their events shaped as much by those
relocating to Tucson, Arizona as they were
by the changing times and events unfolding
in Tucson and around the United States


Enter Here
To Step Back Into 1990's Tucson's LGBTQ+ Pride

Documented and preserved are those very simple early beginnings
in Spring of the 1920s continuing comprehensively up to the era of
the 2020's as large scale costly organized more commercialized
and costly government purchased local permits affected annual
Gay Lesbian LGBTQ+ Pride events in Tucson, Arizona
since being changed in the 1990s annually
to the Fall of each year

The event was not able to be held due to early 2020
health related shutdowns - concerns during the COVID Pandemics
in the United States and Tucson, Arizona



In 2025 The Tucson Pride, LLC. Organization missed holding
the annual 2025 Tucson Pride Parade & Tucson Pride Festival.
This While Carrying A Large Debt Load Amid Many Other
Local Organizations Then In Tucson All Competing For
Parade & Event Locations And Permits Far In Advance
Of Their Events Being Held

  
Tucson Pride Archives®© comprises the most comprehensive
detailed archived historical collections of the many
different ways, the many people who were there,
the many events that came together,
and the time periods of different groups
organizing and producing LGBTQ+ Pride that
has been proudly celebrated in Tucson, Arizona
from the 1920s to 2020s