‘Deviant revelry’: Pridefests facing uncertain future as corporate cash collapses
Those “Pride” events held all across America periodically to promote the alternative sexual lifestyle choices of the LGBT agenda are looking less and less like the excesses of yesteryear when public nudity was common and featured was “deviant revelry,” before the agenda “inserted itself into grade schools.”
A plunge in corporate funding is impacting their outlooks, in a major way.
That’s happening as DEI, those “diversity, equity and inclusion” ideologies, are losing their attractiveness for companies facing White House opposition, public exposure and stockholder and customer criticism.
A commentary at PJMedia pointed out, “In 2025, it’s all trending in the right direction. New York City and Seattle’s Pride organizations each say they’re suffering a $350k deficit this year. Pride St. Louis is short $150k. Twin Cities Pride is about $200k short for its June Pride bacchanalia. So is the infamous San Francisco festival.”
The report even noted that San Francisco Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford noted, “Will we be able to keep the doors open? You know, that’s what I’m most concerned about now.”
The plunge in funding for the ideology has been documented by Bloomberg, which pointed out in a report organizers of those events “are scrambling to make up hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost corporate sponsorships.”
It noted the entitlement that the leftist event promoters feel, as Andi Otto, of Twin Cities Pride, said, “We spend our money as a community in these corporations and I want them to give back. They should give back.”
The report documented a survey of dozens of corporate executives confirming 40% are scaling back their “Pride” month involvements.
“That includes both internal engagement like promoting workplace equity and public-facing participation like sponsoring or appearing in Pride events,” the report said.
“Conservative scrutiny is really the top driver of change,” Luke Hartig, of Gravity Research, told Bloomberg.
“Six in ten companies cite pressure from the Trump administration — which has pushed policies targeting transgender and nonbinary people, while also cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI — as a key reason for their change. Nearly 40% of all companies point to the threat of backlash from conservative activists and consumers, including more than three-quarters of consumer brands,” the report noted.
In fact, the report noted some of those companies already had started pulling back as early as 2023.
LGBT activists described the plunge in support as unprecedented, the report said.
“Among the largest of the events is World Pride, a weeks-long celebration that was expected to draw at least 2 million domestic and international visitors to Washington, D.C., beginning May 17. In February, after shutting down its DEI department, the federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton withdrew its sponsorship from the event. Comcast, Darcars Automotive Group and Deloitte have also decided not to commit any funding, according to Ryan Bos, Executive Director of the Capital Pride Alliance, which is organizing the event,” the report said.
Dollar General and Nissan both have dropped their sponsorships of events set for Nashville, the report said.
PJMedia, calling the circumstances the “Best pride month ever!” explained, “OF COURSE, corporations shouldn’t be funding exotic sexuality extravaganzas (especially for children and youth, for the love of God!) Imagine if they spent this much money and effort promoting wholesome, healthy families. Or go wild and imagine if they spent this kind of time and treasure evangelizing the word of Christ — the greatest faith in history, with a tangible record of bringing emotional health and overall wellbeing to its practitioners, be they gay, straight, black, white, Asian, Hispanic, American or foreign, old or young.”