Come Out With Pride

Come Out With Pride, Inc., the nonprofit behind Orlando's LGBTQIA+ celebrations, gathers people at Lake Eola Park for celebration, connection, and empowerment. The gathering lands each October around National Coming Out Day, a date the organizers treat as the one day many guests can fully live as themselves. Drawing more than 230,000 people, it has grown into one of the largest Pride celebrations in the Southeast and the biggest single-day event in Central Florida. The Most Colorful Parade sends more than 250 organizations and businesses through the park, beside a Marketplace of local vendors, live sets from local talent and national stars, and a fireworks finale. A Trans Pride gathering hosted by the Trans and Non-Binary Task Force shares the Lake Eola grounds.

Our take: Stay through the parade and the Marketplace so you are still in the park for the fireworks finale.