Pride Without Police - 2023

What is Pride Without Police?

Date: June 10th, 2pm-10pm

Location: Fairmont Park - Main Pavilion

Pride Without Police celebrates our queer identity! There will be live music, free food, queer artists, and speakers from local community organizations!

This year's Pride Without Police is a collaborative event organized by Salt Lake Community Mutual Aid, Armed Queers SLC, and Wasatch Tenants United. We oppose assimilation and call for queer liberation. We consider the Utah Pride Center's inclusion of police, real estate investors, petroleum refineries, and military contractors as directly inviting the very entities that drive our oppression. Instead, PWP is entirely community driven. All the groups involved with PWP are directly involved in local efforts to organize for a better world. Our goal for PWP is to provide an opportunity for people to take actual pride in who they are without the barriers imposed by the Pride Center.

Points of Unity

The intention of Pride Without Police is to put on an event for and by queer folks that centers the need for queer liberation. To that extent, the organizers of the event have recognized the following points of unity:

• Agitation – Pride Without Police should draw on the history of resistance to oppression by revolutionary queer and especially trans, black, and brown groups. It should highlight that our liberation is part of a larger international movement against capitalism and imperialism. Rainbow Capitalism and nonprofits cannot free us.

• Intersectionality – In honor of the poor, disabled, trans, black and brown people who have led queer liberation struggles, the event organizers commit themselves to making this event and their groups more accessible to people with those identities, specifically those who are working class or live on the West Side, who are not included in Corporate Pride.

• Solidarity - Pride Without Police should extend to those outside of organizers’ immediate circles, in order to establish solidarity between liberation struggles. Through this, we may best learn how to build our organizations into more effective resources to all queer people.

• A Local Movement– Participants should leave with a better understanding of local organizing efforts and clear ways to be involved.

• Community Building – Pride Without Police should be part of a sustained effort to foster personal connections with others and to empower folks to join or start their own actions.

Accessibility Information

One of our priorities for this event is to make it accessible for anyone, regardless of ability. We plan to have the following accommodations at Pride Without Police:

• Masks are required unless you have an exemption

• ASL interpreters will be present for speakers

• There will be a low-stimulation tent with misters and seating

• There will be public restrooms

• The event is wheelchair accessible

If you have any additional requests, please email us at pridewithoutpolice@slcmutualaid.com

Vendor Information

Are you a queer and independent artist and would like to set up a table at Pride Without Police? We’d love to have you there! Doing so is completely free and we just ask that you fill out this form for us: https://tiny.cc/PWP-Vendors

Any feedback or questions?

If you have any feedback or questions about the event, please email us at pridewithoutpolice@slcmutualaid.com