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2024–2025 Midwest LGBTQIA+ Pride Calendar – Pride Festivals in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and more

Andrew Collins

The Midwest and Plains States are home to some most exciting and well-attended Pride festivals in the country, from the huge parades in Chicago, St. Louis, and Columbus to smaller and more personable gathering—think Deadwood, South Dakota or Door County, Wisconsin—that give attendees a bit more of a chance to mix and mingle, and to get to know the community.

Pictured above, the Chicago lakefront, photo by Andrew Collins

For other parts of North America, also check out the following calendars:

Here’s a 2024-25 calendar of Midwest and Plains LGBTQIA+ Pride festivals, along with details on celebrations in the states extending from Ohio and Michigan west through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, and beyond to the Great Plains states of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The events below are listed in chronological order.

Note: We try to keep these calendars as current as possible, and we apologize if we’ve missed anything or we’ve fallen behind on the dates. My partner Fernando and I update these in our free time (it’s just something we do to support the community; we don’t receive any compensation, nor do we run ads on this site), so please bear with us. If you know of a Pride event that’s not on this calendar, or if you have updated information about an event, please email us at AndrewsTraveling@gmail.com.