It is the goal of this organization to continue developing community programs to benefit the LGBTQ+ community and to continue to raise public awareness about the LGBTQ+ community in hopes to eliminate homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination still very much prevalent over 40 years later. Since 2008, the organization has been able to make significant contributions to other LGBTQ+ focused non-profit organizations and has awarded scholarships to LGBTQ+ individuals and allies continuing their education totaling over a million dollars. The organization is a leader in the metro Phoenix LGBTQ+ community. Under the leadership of Phoenix Pride, there has been an annual march, festival, parade, or celebration in metro Phoenix for almost 40 years. The organization was created as an educational non-profit to continue to educate and promote issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community in metro Phoenix. helped establish the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization known today as Phoenix Pride. This committee, best known at the time as the Phoenix Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, Inc. Nearly ten years later, a group of volunteers joined together to coordinate the annual Pride festival. It was a politically focused march to bring awareness to gay rights issues in Phoenix. In 1981, a group of gay & lesbian activists organized the first Pride march through the streets of downtown Phoenix to the state Capitol building.
