Official Statement on Behalf of the President of the Pride Association of Dodge City:

At the start of 2025, I was involved in a terrible weather related accident when a semi-truck hit myself and my brother in law on Jan 4th. I was hospitalized and rushed into emergency surgery where I nearly lost my life, and lost the life of my brother in law. Along with that, we were overwhelmed with personal issues amongst the board in each of our personal lives so we decided to do what was best in our opinion and reach out to New Frontiers to collaborate on multiple pride events, including our big festival we have made possible for the past years.

We apologize for any inconveniences the cancellation of our event on 6/14 has caused. We have been struggling to find volunteers and local sponsors throughout this past year that would make an event like we’ve had in the past possible.

To us, it felt better to cancel an event we could not guarantee would be worthwhile to attend.

That’s why we’re partnering with New Frontiers this year to co-host events throughout the summer. Moving forward, we’ll be more diligent about cancelling further in advance.

We’re truly sorry, we picked the best outcome available to us. In the meantime, please support our future collaboration with New Frontiers, we want to provide the best quality Pride events for Dodge City and Southwest Kansas as a whole. It certainly takes a village to create a festival to grow, thank you for being apart of our community that is passionate to grow each event every year!

Stay Golden and in the words of Dolly Parton, “You’ll never do a whole lot unless your brave enough to try.”

Please reach out to become involved with future event planning committees and becoming apart of our Pride Board so that we can grow together.

One love to all. Thank you for supporting your local Pride Association.