Capital City Pride

Capital City Pride Fearlessly Creating Community The annual Pride Festival celebration, held the second weekend in June every summer.

Our mission is to promote acceptance, tolerance, and understanding of the gay, le***an, bisexual, and transgender community through education, programming, and visibility. We accomplish this by promoting a healthy community image and awareness, creating a positive public education and discourse, and developing an effective community collaboration in which our collective resources can be utilized.

Pride weekend would not be possible if it weren't for the support of the Des Moines metro area community and dedicated volunteers who give their time and energy in making sure that each year’s event is something for everyone to enjoy! Disclaimer
*Capital City Pride reserves the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit user submissions and posts at any time and for any or no reason at our sole discretion*

Bring the whole family to the Rainbow Scavenger Hunt this Explore the Rose Garden and hunt for colorful paper butterflie...
08/28/2026

Bring the whole family to the Rainbow Scavenger Hunt this Explore the Rose Garden and hunt for colorful paper butterflies — each one is actually a wildflower seed pod, so today's prize becomes tomorrow's garden.

Free thanks to our sponsors — just RSVP so we can plan ahead.

📅 September 12
🕥 10:30am–12:00pm, come any time
📍 Rose Garden, Des Moines Art Center

Pride Book Club September This month we're reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — a quiet, hopeful story...
08/27/2026

Pride Book Club September

This month we're reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — a quiet, hopeful story about robots, tea monks, and the question of what people actually need.

Join us September 9, 6–7pm, to talk it through together.

Bonus: Storyhouse Bookpub and DMPA are hosting Becky Chambers in Des Moines this October — get ahead of it and read along with us now.

Your fall reading list, sorted. 🍂📚Pride Book Club is back for the season — here's what we're reading together:🍵 Septembe...
08/27/2026

Your fall reading list, sorted. 🍂📚

Pride Book Club is back for the season — here's what we're reading together:
🍵 September: A Psalm for the Wild-Built — Becky Chambers
🕯️ October: Someone You Can Build a Nest In — John Wiswell
🦁 November: Chosen Family — Madeleine Gray
🌿 December: All the Things We Don't Talk About — Amy Feltman

Grab a book, join the conversation, meet some new people. All are welcome.

We're proud to sponsor the 2026 LGBTQ Legacy Leader Awards! This September 10, join us at the Krause Gateway Center with...
08/26/2026

We're proud to sponsor the 2026 LGBTQ Legacy Leader Awards! This September 10, join us at the Krause Gateway Center with Magazine to celebrate six honorees doing real work to strengthen our community - LGBTQ leaders, emerging voices, and allies alike.

Tickets in the link below. Hope to see you there. 🏳️‍🌈

https://buff.ly/DHumUBW

Twice a year, Capital City Pride hosts an evening of true stories from local LGBTQ+ residents. A beautiful mix of humor ...
08/25/2026

Twice a year, Capital City Pride hosts an evening of true stories from local LGBTQ+ residents. A beautiful mix of humor and heartbreak. And we're looking for storytellers now.

Whether it's a story of love, resilience, or self-discovery, we want to hear it.

📖 Submissions open now through Sept. 15 (~1,000 words / 8 min spoken)
📅 Event: Thursday, Oct. 15, 6:30pm at the Temple Theater

Email your story to [email protected].
Details: https://capitalcitypride.org/event/submissions-open-pride-storytellers/

Applications to join Capital City Pride’s volunteer leadership team close Friday.If you’ve been thinking about getting i...
07/29/2026

Applications to join Capital City Pride’s volunteer leadership team close Friday.

If you’ve been thinking about getting involved, we’d love to hear from you. Whether your strengths are in marketing, design, finance, programming, organizing, or simply bringing people together, your perspective matters.

Help shape the future of Capital City Pride.

🔗 Apply now:
https://buff.ly/O0Tsqs4

Capital City Pride isn’t built in one weekend. It’s built by people who choose to show up all year long.We’re looking fo...
07/23/2026

Capital City Pride isn’t built in one weekend. It’s built by people who choose to show up all year long.

We’re looking for volunteers to help lead the next chapter of our organization through Board and Deputy Director roles beginning this fall.

Whether you’re a marketer, designer, planner, finance professional, advocate, organizer, or simply someone who believes in creating spaces where LGBTQ+ people belong, we’d love to hear from you.

Applications are open through July 31.

Learn more about the available roles and apply:
https://buff.ly/O0Tsqs4

Fearlessly creating community starts with people willing to help build it.

Pool party? Count us in. ☀️🌈Join One Iowa, Capital City Pride, and the Pride Sports League for a Q***r Joy Pool Party at...
07/03/2026

Pool party? Count us in. ☀️🌈

Join One Iowa, Capital City Pride, and the Pride Sports League for a Q***r Joy Pool Party at Birdland Pool on July 18.

The event is free, registration required for staffing:
https://buff.ly/LYWqAVm

Applications are now open to join the Capital City Pride Board of Directors and leadership team.If you’ve been looking f...
07/02/2026

Applications are now open to join the Capital City Pride Board of Directors and leadership team.

If you’ve been looking for a way to help shape the future of LGBTQ+ community, education, wellness, family programming, and celebration in Central Iowa, this is your opportunity to get involved.

We’re currently seeking volunteers for several Board and Deputy Director positions.

Applications are open through July 31.

Apply and learn more about each position:

https://buff.ly/9Y9XK4R

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Des Moines, IA
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