AURORA | Live and in person, and open to all, Aurora Pride 2024 hits Aurora’s best beach Aug. 3.
The seventh annual event offers a day of sun, beers, sand, water fun, bands, booths, food and more, providing what planners say is a Colorado pride event with something for everyone and every age.
“Every year we raise money to produce our event series and to support scholarships for LGBTQIA students at higher education institutions in Aurora,” Aurora Pride creator Jerry Cunningham said last year.
The pride celebration has grown to become one of the region’s premier LGBTQIA-support events, this one catering to the entire family.
The price to get in? Nothing — until the day of the event.
Advance admission is free, but a ticket, available online, is required. The pride celebration offers a bevy of packages that include parking and beer passes. Paddleboards and aquatic rentals are extra. But the fun, bands and entertainment are all free.
The celebration moved from Aurora city hall to the Aurora Reservoir complex in 2019 and was an immediate success, said event organizer Zander Oklar.
The festival is for everyone in the metro area, organizers say.
IF YOU GO:
Noon to 7 p.m. Aug. 3
Free online tickets for admission, $10 admission the day of the event an at the gates. Online early access tickets are available to Aurora Reservoir as early as 9 a.m.
Aurora Reservoir 5800 S. Powhaton Road
Tickets and details: AuroraPride.com
This one-day event on city property seemed it had plenty of city money and even more city leader’s attention to promote a full throttle beach party. Okay, it must be high level city priority then. The same city Aurora Reservoir that everyday provides 400,000 people in Aurora with their drinking water. At the capital this week discussions of the Aurora reservoir and its risk critical to remain as to have human consumption as a reliable drinking source remains unanswered. The integrity of a clean water supply source like the reservoir something we spend a tremendous about of money and time to continue to find more of is the real deal. The setbacks from fracking wells digging under and around this water source will it hold? No one truly knows what underground fracking creep will look like. Those underground streams run in all different networks. We lose this water supply to gasoline contamination, and it is surrounded by the smell of gas, Aurora Pride will turn their nose up, free or not and won’t want to even come close. Awe well shucks – another superfund site.
So the City suspended its prohibition against music and alcohol for this event as well as extending its weekend night hours.
Actually, Charlie, thos prohibitions were relaxed after the 4th of July weekend.