Wenatchee Pride

🎵🎶Here is our official Entertainment lineup for our Pride Festival!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're so excited to have all have NCW Libraries join us to read Story Time at 11:15! Come for story time and then check out our Youth Zone which will be running from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM!

Then catch:
Icarus at 1:00 PM
Soulbaum at 2:00 PM
The Timely Tragedy at 3:00 PM
House of Pisces ♓️ at 4:00 PM
And then headliner Pizza Party (the band) at 4:30 PM!

📍: Lincoln Park
1410 S Mission Ave
Wenatchee, WA

11:00 AM to 6:00 PM

📣 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 📣

Come help us at Chelan Pride's 5th Annual Pride Festival, tomorrow, Saturday June 6th!!

Wenatchee Pride is what it is today, because of the support of our community and the relationships that we’ve built. Our friends and chosen family at have always been a huge part of that. Our organizations have leaned on, and supported each other, every Pride month (and beyond) and they need our help.

Chelan has a vibrant q***r community. Chelan Pride's flagship event is their annual Pride Festival and every year a lot of love, time, and hard work goes into making their Pride Fest an event that celebrates the 2SLGBTQIA+ people that call Chelan’s small corner of Greater North Central Washington their home. As a volunteer run organization, that is only possible with volunteers.

We’re asking you, our wonderful community here in the Wenatchee Valley, to help us make Chelan Pride the celebration that their community deserves. VOLUNTEER TODAY! Applications close tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM. There are lots of positions to fill! We're going to be there all day helping them out, and we want to see you there too. Let's show the community that we exist, we deserve joy, and we're not going anywhere; No Permission Needed.

You can apply using this link:https://www.eventeny.com/events/volunteer/?id=27429&type=public

or visit chelanpride.org

Happy Pride Month from Wenatchee Pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thank you to everyone who has shown us so much love support. It's been incredible to see our community come together.
We have so many things planned for this month and we hope that you can join us for all of them
🤍🩷💙🤎🖤 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

June 5th - Pride Kick-off @ Yonder East Taproom

June 6th - 5th Annual Chelan Pride Festival @ Riverwalk Park, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

June 10th- Pride Night with the Applesox @ Paul Thomas Sr. Field, with resources from Out NCW, CAFE and Wenatchee Pride

June 12th - Photo Pop-up with Casey Orr @ Artworx

June 19th- Out Loud Comedy Show (more details to come for this event!) @ Ground Control

June 20th - Wenatchee Pride Festival @ Lincoln Park from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM followed by Q***r Prom @ Ground Control

June 26th - Monthly Teen Night @ The Time Capsule

June 27th - Bowl with Pride @ Eastmont Lanes

June 28 - Methow Pride Protest and Festival @ Twisp Commons Park/ Twispworks

Thursday May 28th at 5:15 PM, join us at the Wenatchee City Council meeting for a reading of the City's Pride Month Proclamation!

Then head on over to at 6:30 PM to learn about Volunteer opportunities with us!

Friday June 12th, join us from 3:00 to 7:00 PM and come have your portrait taken by Casey Orr! This event is free and all ages are welcome!

During the photography session, Laura Gunnip of will facilitate an interactive letter writing and art workshop exploring participants’ stories of becoming.

📍: Artworx Studio
15 Yakima Street
Wenatchee, WA

We're so excited to be a part of this opportunity! Costumes will be available and there will be an option to have anonymous portraits taken.

We are disappointed in the City of Wenatchee and the City Council’s lack luster “round table”. There was no real discussion about the importance of banners and merely statements made about how the LGBTQIA2s+ community should “get over it” and that the Council plans to move to “city sponsored events” like East Wenatchee.

At the meeting a representative for Out NCW spoke and let the City Council know about our own experience with the banner applications and how the City went above and beyond to make the experience confusing, while expediting a favored applicant.

This is what happened:

On April 30th, Shayla Winter (Secretary/Treasurer) emailed Tammy McCord with the Wenatchee Clerk’s office asking when the earliest time they could submit an application for a banner was.

Tammy responded at 8:13am May 1st “banner applications can be submitted no more than 180 days in advance of the start date.”

At 10:02am May 1st, less than 2 hours later, the clerk’s office accepted and stamped "received" the Wenatchee Downtown Association’s banner application for November 1st - 30th.

That is 184 days before and in direct contradiction to what Out NCW was told by the Clerk’s office less than 2 hours prior.

At midnight May 5th, Out NCW submitted an application for November 1st via email and a representative stood outside the Clerk’s office at 7:45am in anticipation of the office opening at 8am. When the office opened, they were the first and only person to turn in a completed application on behalf of Out NCW, including artwork, with payment, at start of business 180 days before November 1st.

At that time the city employee who took the application did not stamp it, and told our representative it would likely be denied because the Veteran’s banners had already taken the spot.

At 9:44am May 5th, that same day, Tammy McCord emailed Shayla and told them the application was denied and payment would be returned.

Soon after the President of Out NCW called to speak with the Wenatchee Downtown Association to ask about their experience applying. They let us know that the clerk’s office told them that she could submit her application early. Something in direct contradiction to what Out NCW was told.

And to be clear: Out NCW appreciates the time and work of the WDA and the Veteran banner program, and those who work tirelessly for this community. The Veteran’s banners are very important and should continue to hang.

May 5th the City changed the dates on behalf of WDA to start on October 28th, which means it *now* matches the required 180 days on the application they submitted on May 1st. This shows that the clerk’s office can make autonomous changes based on intent and approve specific applications of their choosing. The city then completely suspended the banner program to all further applicants on May 5th to any applicants not already approved.

Effectively blocking Out NCW, and anyone else, from applying again for a different month going forward.

When NCW Equity Alliance previously applied for banners they were denied due to procedural issues about artwork, which was already on file from the previous year, and told that nothing could be done because the process is absolute.

Out NCW was told they could not apply more than 180 days in advance while a favored applicant was told they could apply early.

This lead to one banner being “approved” over another based solely on the City’s discretion, and then the City suspending permanently all banner applications that had not already been approved.

NCW Equity Alliance was denied based on procedure. Out NCW was denied because a favored applicant was allowed to apply early.

The contradictions show clear and distinct favoritism being applied by our city's government. And it can not be ignored that in both cases, the denied parties are those championing marginalized voices in our community.

We stand with our community. We see you. We love you. We are not done fighting.

It is not lost on us, that our organization turning in an application has been deemed divisive simply because we attempted to participate in a “fair” permit system.

📣📣We are now accepting Volunteer and Vendor applications!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We would like to thank everyone that has shown an interest in supporting us and the 2SLGBTQIA+ over the last few months. Part of what makes our annual Pride Festival great is community involvement and volunteers and vendors are a huge part of that! We would not be able to do what we do without them.

If you are interested in applying for either please use this link to apply!

https://www.eventeny.com/events/wenatchee-pride-fest-2026-27657/

Another special thanks to Danielle at Ground Control for the graphic!

Last night, we honored our transgender siblings lost to violence this year. We would like to thank everyone who came and showed their support. Your presence made this gathering impactful and we love and see you.

We were honored once again to hear the words of one of our board members, Zoe Jaspers. We've included them here and we hope that you find them as powerful as we do.