Boise Pride is back — and growing. It’s moving to Ann Morrison Park.

Boise Pride is back — and growing. It’s moving to Ann Morrison Park.

In this 2023 photo, the Boise Pride Parade weaves through downtown Boise. (Courtesy of Boise Pride)This weekend, the Boise Pride Festival will start with some change. Instead of being in the heart of downtown at Cecil D. Andrus Park, the festivities will be held at Ann Morrison Park — to accommodate the growing crowds that turn out each year.  As fewer companies sponsored the event, organizers shifted to community fundraising but are still plann…

Amid rising economic uncertainty, anti-LGBTQ policies, fewer sponsors show up for Boise Pride

(Zelda Gardner / Getty Images)The 2025 Boise Pride is adjusting to fewer sponsors backing the event this year.Boise Pride Director Donald Williamson said sponsorships had fallen somewhere between $200,000 and $250,000 short of what the event has been able to fundraise in previous years.Williamson said he suspected the rise of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policies is part of why some sponsors have pulled out but added that was not the whole picture.“T…