2026
Indigenous Pride LA
“The Radiance of
Our Steps:
Pride Blooms Where We Dance!”
This year's theme honors the beauty, strength, and resilience of Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQPAI+ communities. It celebrates the ways our ancestors, relatives, and future generations are connected through movement, culture, and community.
The Radiance of Our Steps recognizes that every step we take carries stories, teachings, and traditions forward. Our dances are more than movement, they are expressions of identity, belonging, joy, and survival. Through gathering, celebrating, and standing together, we illuminate paths for one another and for those yet to come.
Pride Blooms Where We Dance speaks to the power of Indigenous queer and Two-Spirit presence. Wherever we come together, in celebration, ceremony, art, community, and love, we create spaces where pride can flourish. Like flowers blooming after a long season, our communities continue to grow, thrive, and shine with brilliance.
After years apart, this gathering is an opportunity to reconnect, honor our journeys, celebrate our cultures, and embrace the radiant futures we are creating together. With every step, every song, every dance, and every shared moment, we affirm that our joy is powerful, our identities are sacred, and our communities continue to bloom.
Pride blooms where we dance. Radiance follows where we step.
About 2026 Indigenous Pride LA
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Indigenous Pride LA is an annual, family-friendly intertribal festival held in the Greater Los Angeles area, typically on the Sunday before Indigenous Peoples Day. As the only Indigenous Pride celebration of its kind in the region, the festival honors and uplifts the cultures, histories, identities, and contributions of Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQPAI+ people.
Rooted in community, visibility, and cultural pride, Indigenous Pride LA brings together Indigenous peoples from diverse Tribal Nations and communities to celebrate who we are, where we come from, and the futures we are building together. The festival serves as both a joyful gathering and a powerful space for cultural preservation, community healing, education, advocacy, and connection.
Whether you identify as Indigenous, LGBTQPAI+, both, or neither, Indigenous Pride LA welcomes everyone who wants to learn, celebrate, and stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities.
Founded in 2018 with the launch of our annual fall festival at Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, Indigenous Pride LA began as an event organizer and has since evolved into a year-round community service provider. Today, we offer programs, resources, and cultural events that support and empower Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQPAI+ people throughout the Los Angeles area.
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Throughout the day, attendees can enjoy a vibrant lineup of traditional and contemporary performances that showcase the diversity and creativity of Indigenous cultures. These may include traditional dance, drumming, singing, storytelling, spoken word, drag performances, and contemporary Indigenous artists whose work reflects themes of resilience, joy, sovereignty, and self-expression.
The festival has also featured:
Panel discussions and educational presentations exploring Indigenous issues, history, culture, identity, and community leadership.
Health and wellness resources provided by organizations serving Indigenous and LGBTQPAI+ communities.
Indigenous food vendors offering traditional and contemporary Indigenous cuisine.
Artist, craft, and small business vendors featuring artwork, jewelry, fashion, cultural goods, and handmade items created by Indigenous, Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTQPAI+ makers.
Family-friendly activities designed to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for attendees of all ages.
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Indigenous Pride Los Angeles recognizes the need for a dedicated space where Indigenous people from all lands, waters, and nations can gather to celebrate our cultures, heritage, identities, and communities. For many Indigenous people, openly living and expressing our truths can be challenging due to the ongoing impacts of colonization, missionization, and the historical attempts to erase our traditional ways of being, knowing, and belonging.
For countless generations, Indigenous communities have carried forward rich cultural traditions, languages, and teachings despite these challenges. Indigenous Pride LA honors that resilience by creating a space where Indigenous people can celebrate who they are without compromise, reconnect with community, and embrace both their ancestral and contemporary identities.
Indigenous Pride LA also acknowledges that Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQPAI+ individuals are often underrepresented at mainstream Pride events and may have limited access to culturally relevant resources, support systems, and opportunities to celebrate the unique intersections of their Indigenous and LGBTQPAI+ identities. Our festival addresses this need by centering Indigenous voices, experiences, and traditions while providing access to community resources, educational opportunities, health and wellness services, and spaces for meaningful connection.
More than a festival, Indigenous Pride LA is a place for celebration, healing, cultural preservation, visibility, advocacy, and self-determination. It is a space where Indigenous people can gather in pride, where families and allies can learn and grow, and where the beauty, diversity, and strength of Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous LGBTQPAI+ communities are uplifted and honored.
At its heart, Indigenous Pride LA is a celebration of survival, joy, sovereignty, and the enduring strength of Indigenous peoples, past, present, and future.
Location of the event:
Exposition Park (South Lawn)
700 Exposition Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Behind the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.