Missed out on Pride Month activities earlier this month?
It’s not too late to support the LGBQT+ community with a host of events taking place this weekend (June 27-29) across Flagler and Volusia counties as a finale to Pride Month.
Vicky Haley is an action board member with Flagler 50501, a local grassroots group spun out of the national non-violent peace movement. She said the group has planned since the beginning of the year to organize a public gathering with participants holding handmade signs to show support for LGBQT+ rights sometime during June’s Pride Month.
“It’s peaceful sign-waving; we’re following the rules and following the laws and spreading joy and cheer is the message we’re trying to create,” Haley said in a phone interview with The News-Journal. “Some people feel unsafe and feel afraid in our community, and that’s why we’re doing these events.”
The idea was to invite Volusia County residents to join the Palm Coast sign-waving, but as word spread, folks in other communities began organizing similar local demonstrations.
“And these other events just kind of snowballed out of the one we were going to have this weekend,” Haley said.
Here’s a roundup of Pride Month events taking place this weekend across the area:
Friday, June 27
Celebrates Pride in Deltona with a sign-waving
Pride Month sign-waving, 5-7 p.m. Meet at 1700 N. Normandy Blvd. and bring your own handmade signs.
Saturday, June 28
Pride Month Dance Party in Palm Coast
Pride Month Dance Party Rally hosted by Flagler 50501, from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Bring your own handmade signs to the bridge at the Palm Coast Parkway 1-95 overpass and take part in the festivities. It is recommended participants park in the Island Walk Shopping Center, 100 Palm Coast Pkwy NE.
Bunnell Pride Fest
Bunnell Pride Fest, noon – 5 p.m., 2K Ranch at 6067 Tangerine Ave. Family-friendly fun with live music, food, vendors and a kids’ fun zone, as well as a dance party.
Bunnell Pride Bowling and Mixer 7 p.m. – 1 a.m., Palm Coast Lanes at 11 Old Kings Road, Palm Coast.
Support LBGTQ+ community with New Smyrna Beach sign-waving
Pride Month sign-waving, 10 a.m. – noon. Meet at the “four corners” at State Road 44 and Mission Drive/Wallace Road and bring your own handmade signs.
Pride Month sign-waving in Daytona Beach
Pride Month sign-waving, 10 a.m. – noon. Meet at 301 S. Ridgewood Ave. and bring your own handmade signs.
Celebrate Pride in DeLand
Pride Month sign-waving, 10 a.m. – noon. Meet at corners of Woodland Boulevard and New York Avenue and bring your own handmade signs.
Sign-waving in Orange City to support LGBTQ+ community
Pride Month sign-waving, 1 – 3 p.m. Meet at 97 Saxon Blvd. and bring your own handmade signs.
Sunday, June 29
Palm Coast
Flagler 50501 Pride Freedom Walk, 10 a.m.; park and meet at the St. Joe Walkway Trailhead, 31 Greenway Court. Follow the path and, if you want, bring a sign to display. The group will end the walk around 11 a.m. at the Farmers Market directly across from the European Village.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: As Pride Month 2025 winds down, here’s where to celebrate around Daytona, Palm Coast, NSB
Reporting by Colleen Michele Jones, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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