Community has always been at the heart of Albany Pride as an organisation, and our annual Pride Festival has always had the community at its heart, as a time of celebration and connection for both our local community and our visitors from elsewhere. Following on from 2024’s theme of “We are Family”, “CommUnity” once again reiterates the importance of unity and unified perseverance within our community as political forces and ideologies continue to tarnish and vilify our community as a platform.
“The theme is about highlighting the unity we have in our community, and just how important that is,” says Festival Coordinator Millie Reid, “When visitors come to Albany for the Pride Festival, one of the most common bits of feedback we get is that there’s a real and strong sense of community down here in Albany.
Over the past year, we’ve really seen our community and our allies come together as a unified force against some ugly rhetoric and adversity, so we wanted to honour and celebrate that. We can’t wait to bring the rainbows to the Rainbow Coast again this year!”
“Once we really dug into the heart of what both community and unity means, and what that means to us as a community specifically, the inspiration for the design and aesthetic came instantly,” says Tiger Bird, Albany Pride’s media coordinator and artistic director for Pride Festival 2025, “A patchwork of different bold, bright colours, interlinked and unified together to create something bolder, brighter, more colourful, more unashamedly loud and fun.
That’s been the driving force and spirit behind Queer Liberation and Pride Festivals since the beginning: when people attempt to shove us back into the closet and silence us, we bring out our rainbows and kick down that closet door, brighter, bolder, louder, and more in-your-face. Not just for ourselves, but for those in our community that are unable to do so because they’re trapped into suffering in silence.”
Albany Pride Festival 2025 will take place between the 20th February to the 3rd March, with the lineup being announced on the 15th December.
