Hello, Fierce Fam.

There is no easy way to say this, and it is with a heavier-than-imaginable heart that I must announce that MORR Pride Fest 2025 is cancelled and will no longer be taking place on September 6th.

There is not adequate support to keep our event, participants, and attendees safe, which must remain the top priority when organizing any event, but especially one where our community is actively under attack all around us. We cannot and will not have an unsafe event. You and your loved ones, Mama MORR, our sponsors, vendors, entertainers, donors, the few volunteers who were able to help out, our attendees, and all of our Fierce Fam deserve to be celebrated, supported, loved, and above all, kept safe.

We deserve to be ourselves without fear, and we deserve to be secure in our hometown without our neighbors threatening our lives and feeling good about it. It’s okay to be scared, and it’s okay to have nothing left to give right now; just try not to give up—we have so much to keep fighting for. We aren’t going anywhere. We’ll be sure all the hate-filled hearts never forget we are here and in more numbers than they can imagine.

Hopefully, the next time we can bring Pride Fest to Marshall, more folks will be able to jump in and get involved. 

Until then.

Yours gratefully,

MORR Pride Fest