Park City Pride Month - 02 June 2026
Above: Park City, UT celebrants of Pride Month, June 2026.
Here is a link from Park City radio station, KPCW, announcing Park City's celebration of Pride Month, June 2026.
Following is a link to a 02 June 2026 Jeff Childers piece on Pride Month's diminishing support from former advocates in the United States.
Park City's historic, robust support for Pride Month is a good excuse for me to get out of town. I expect to be spending most of the month of June doing an adventure cruise along the Kimberly (NW coast of Oz).
Pride Month has evolved into a broad cultural phenomenon tied to LGBTQ+ identity politics. Park City's celebration of Pride Month advances a controversial, to many prospective visitors, cultural message:
1. Pride has become a major marketing vehicle. Pride Month has evolved into a broad cultural phenomenon tied to LGBTQ+ identity politics. Why do Park City leaders, whose primary job is to keep "roads and commodes" working, enter into political advocacy for one ideology, controversial to a significant number of potential visitors... particularly, as is pointed out in the Childers piece above, when so many other former promoters of Pride Month are backing away from it?
2. Many Pride public activities include overt displays of kink, nudity, or simulated sex acts. Family-oriented branding clashes with content unsuitable for children, yet events market to all ages. Is this the message that Park City wants to convey to its prospective visitors? Why not show neutrality on social and cultural issues in a country where a multiplicity of lifestyles is rightfully constitutionally guaranteed?
3. Pride-linked school programs, Drag Queen Story Hour, and gender ideology are promoted despite growing pushback in Europe and the US. A municipality eager to attract all demographics should shy away from active advocacy of controversial social programs.
4. Pride frames society through oppressor/oppressed lenses, elevating group identity over individual merit or shared values. This is the message that Park City wishes to convey to a global audience of prospective visitors? How about promoting Park City as the best place for a world class ski vacation in lieu?
For fifteen years I loved to attend Park City's July 4 celebrations. There was a wonderful, patriotic parade. The family atmosphere of the celebration was ubiquitous. Then, circa 2018, Pride Month advocates walked the parade line passing out rainbow flags to kids. To me, it was wrong using the Park City 4th of July celebration as an LBGTQ+ advocacy effort. Since then, I have hopped on my motorcycle and ridden from Park City to Utah County to witness the Provo, UT 4th of July Parade where the promotional atmosphere is solely oriented towards the celebration of American independence.
There are many good reasons to love Park City. I have been a regular skier of her two mountains for twenty-five years. Park City is a polyglot of high achievers and active people. Parkites are charitable supporting a myriad of nonprofits. The city has done a great job in providing beautiful parks, walkways, open space, and residential supporting infrastructure. IMHO Park City has a better chance of thriving if it sticks to those tasks and avoids being a vocal advocate for Pride Month, or any other ideology, particularly when national trends show diminishing support for same amongst government and corporate entities.