📢 We’re excited to announce that applications for the 2026 Heartland Pride Scholarship Program are now open!🚨 Learn more about our available scholarships at heartlandpride.org/scholarship/ —$2,500 each! Submit your application today at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...!

📢 We are excited to announce that applications to perform at the 2026 Heartland Pride Festival are open! 💃🎤 If you would like to perform a number at this year's Festival, please fill out the following form. forms.gle/ZWU3myibHS5B... This year's event will be Saturday, July 18! 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

🌈 SAVE THE DATE! 🌈 
Heartland Pride returns July 17–18, 2026. 
📍 Youth Pride, Local Entertainment Stage, Interactive Activities & Vendor Fair: Holland/Tenaska Center 
📍 Evening Show with Local & National Entertainers: Steelhouse Omaha 
More details coming soon! ✨🏳️‍🌈

⏳We’re only two days away from the 2025 Heartland Pride Royalty Victory Show! 👑 Grab your friends and join us this Friday at FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar!

🗓️ Only 10 ten more days until the Heartland Pride Royalty Victory Show on November 14 at FLIXX Lounge! It’s going to be an evening where glamour meets greatness. 💃 Show starts at 10 PM — you won’t want to miss this royal celebration! 👑 #HeartlandPride #RoyaltyVictoryShow #FlixxLounge

👑 The crowns are polished and the spotlights are ready! Join us for the Heartland Pride Royalty Victory Show on November 14 at Flixx Lounge — where glamour meets greatness. 💃 Show starts at 10 PM — you won’t want to miss this royal celebration! #HeartlandPride #RoyaltyVictoryShow #FlixxLounge

✨👑 Join us for a Heartland Pride Royalty Meet & Greet on Saturday, October 11! 👑✨ 20% of every dollar spent will be donated to Heartland Pride 🌈💖 📍 Don & Millie’s at 4430 Farnam St 🗓 Meet & Greet from 1-3 PM 💡Tell your cashier you’re with Heartland Pride before you order so your purchase counts!🌟

Join us this Sunday for an afternoon of fun, friendly competition, and… Labubus! Grab your friends and come down to FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar for Drag Queen Bingo. 📍 Flixx Lounge 📅 Sunday, August 31 Don’t miss your chance to BINGO your way to a Labubu!!

👑✨ Join us for a night of legacy, love, and lewks! ✨👑 🌈 The Heartland Pride Royalty Stepdown Show is your chance to celebrate the unforgettable reign of our royalty before we crown a new era in just a few weeks! 📅 August 15 - doors open at 9! 📍 FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar

🎉Join us for Drag Queen Bingo at FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar this afternoon!🌈 🚪Doors open at 1 and games begin at 2.🎊

Just a couple of pictures of @ketv7.bsky.social at the @heartlandpride.bsky.social Parade! It was a great time!

🚨Heartland Pride Royalty Pageant 🌈 This year’s Heartland Pride Royalty Pageant is Saturday, August 30 at FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar! If you have questions, please contact [email protected].

It truly was a beautiful day for @heartlandpride.bsky.social, a day of hope, love & community, where we were joined by candidates, Mayor Ewing, @nebraskadems.bsky.social, @nebraskastonewall.bsky.social, Sarpy County Dems & Cass County Dems. Live freely. Love freely. 🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍⚧️ End/

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️What a great 2025 Heartland Pride Parade & Festival! 🌈🎉 We want to thank our sponsors for all their support in hosting this year's celebration. AND a huge thanks to our amazing performers, volunteers, and everyone who attended! 🌈We are Free To Be loud and PROUD!🌈 See you next year!🎊

Good morning & happy Saturday! The forecast today is fantastic! Perfect for everyone heading out to the @heartlandpride.bsky.social parade this morning. Look for KETV in the parade! 🏳️‍🌈

🚨Now Avaliable for Download 🚨 This year’s Pride Guide is now available! Visit heartlandpride.org/wp-content/u... to view: 👉The Parade Route 👉Festival Maps 👉Schedule of Events 👉Sponsors and more!✨ Download it today to make sure you don’t miss anything this weekend! 🌈🎉

Who is ready for Heartland Pride this weekend? @unionomaha.bsky.social will be showing out in the Pride Parade, along with many Proud Owls! If you want to march along with us, reach out - we'd love extra support! Parade starts Saturday at 9:30 am at 16th and Capitol! @heartlandpride.bsky.social

Hey you! Are you going to the @heartlandpride.bsky.social Parade on the 12th? Well, we are! Come on downtown on Saturday morning and join us in celebrating Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #OneMeansAll

🌈✨ Visit the Evodia Fragrances booth at the Pride Festival to get a LIMITED EDITION PRIDE SCENT! ✨🌈 These custom air fresheners are as bold, bright & beautiful as YOU are! 🎓 PLUS a percentage of all proceeds go directly to our scholarship fund. 📍 Visit them at Booth 52 all weekend long!

🌈🎉 The wait is almost over… the Heartland Pride Parade & Festival are tomorrow! 🎉🌈 Get ready to celebrate loud, proud, and full of love with us - and don’t miss your chance to celebrate with Saucy Santana! ✨🎤 🎟️ Tickets are going fast! 👉 www.ticketmaster.com/heartland-pr... See you there! 💖

🌈🏳️‍🌈Pride Weekend is Here!🏳️‍⚧️🌈 We’re excited to bring the community together to celebrate and want to make sure everyone knows a few things about entering the festival to ensure it’s a great day! 🚨Review about CHI’s clear bag policy by visiting chihealthcenteromaha.com/arena/safety.... Happy Pride!💖

🌈🎉 The countdown is ON… Heartland Pride is just days away! 🎉🌈 Get ready to celebrate loud, proud, and full of love with us - and don’t miss your chance to celebrate with the one and only Nina West! 💃✨ 🎟️ Snag your tickets today! 👉 www.ticketmaster.com/heartland-pr... See you there! 💖

🎉 BIG NEWS: This Friday is Youth Pride & Family Night - and this year, the vendor fair is free & open to everyone on Friday night! 🌈✨ 🎊 Upstairs: Youth Pride takes over the ballroom! 🎟️ Main Hall: Home to our vendor fair & free to attend on Friday evening! 📍CHI Health Center Omaha 🕐 5:00 - 10:00pm

🌈🎉 We are less than a week away from this year’s Heartland Pride Parade & Festival! Our team can’t wait to celebrate Pride with Brooklyn-based comedian, writer, and actor, Nico Carney! ✨ See the full schedule & lineup at heartlandpride.org/2025-heartla.... We hope to see you all next Saturday! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🌈Thank you FLIXX Lounge for being the 2025 Grand Ballroom Sponsor at the Heartland Pride Festival! 🌈 We appreciate your dedication to creating an environment that helps foster and develop local performers and your commitment to being an inclusive space for the community to gather. Thank you!🙏

🌈Thank you Millwork Commons for sponsoring the VIP Lounge at this year’s Heartland Pride Festival! Your partnership shows your dedication to eliminating barriers and creating opportunities to help achieve a more equitable future for people in our community. 🌈 We hope to see you all there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️We’re only 11 days away from celebrating Pride with Nico Carney, Nina West, and Saucy Santana at the CHI Health Center Omaha! 🎉🌈 We hope to see you all there too! Get all the details about this year’s Heartland Pride Festival at heartlandpride.org/2025-heartla....

🌈Thank you Elite Tactical for helping us ensure the 2025 Heartland Pride Parade is a safe and fun event for the community! We are thrilled to continue our partnership with you and appreciate your dedication to the LGBTQ+ community. 🌈 Learn more at heartlandpride.org! We hope to see you there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🌈 We’re proud to announce our official sponsor for this year’s Pride Parade: Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine! 🎉 Their support helps us celebrate love, equality & the vibrant diversity of our community louder & prouder than ever. 💖 Get ready for a day filled with color, joy, and unity. 🌟

🌈 We are thrilled to announce the Grand Marshal of this year’s Heartland Pride Parade: Jessie McGrath! Jessie embodies the spirit of pride and resilience that defines our community. Join us in celebrating her leadership and voice as she leads the way on parade day! 🗓️July 12 📍The Capitol District

🎉The 2025 Heartland Pride Merch Store is officially open! 🎊🎉 Check out past and present t-shirt designs, buttons, pins, and more at heartlandpride.org/product-cate...! 🌈All proceeds from merchandise sales fund our scholarship and community grant programs as well as next year’s Pride celebration.

🚨Royalty Pageant Registration Now Open! 🌈 This year’s Heartland Pride Royalty Pageant is Saturday, August 30 at FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar! Learn more and register today at docs.google.com/document/d/1...! If you have questions, please contact [email protected].

Reminder: If you are suffering because of current events, PLEASE reach out for help. Crisis Intervention/Suicide Prevention The Trevor Project: (866) 488-7386 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255 (online chat available) Crisis Text Line: Text START to 741-741 WE LOVE YOU.

🚨Heartland Pride Tickets🚨 We are excited to announce that ticket sales for this year’s Pride Festival are officially open! Visit www.ticketmaster.com/heartland-pr... to get yours today! Tickets can be purchased in-person at the CHI Box Office for $25 to avoid Ticketmaster fees.

We are so excited to celebrate Pride this year with Nico Carney, Nina West, and Saucy Santana! Stay tuned - ticket sales open soon! Happy Pride!! 🌈🏳️‍🌈

Last chance to book your room at Hilton Downtown Omaha with our exclusive Heartland Pride discount - rooms as low as $119! Book your room at book.passkey.com/e/51040986 to have the discount automatically applied. This special rate expires on Friday!

Friendly reminder as we start Pride Month to pledge for this year’s Prideraiser if you haven’t already! In partnership with our friends at @proudowlsoma.bsky.social we’re supporting Rainbow Parents of Nebraska - learn more and pledge here: www.prideraiser.org/campaigns/om...

We want to thank everyone who applied for a 2025 Heartland Pride Scholarship. We had a record number of applicants this year! The 2025 scholarship recipients will be notified by email in June. If you did not receive an award this year, we hope you will apply again next spring!

Still need a room for Heartland Pride weekend? We’ve partnered with Hilton Downtown Omaha to offer discounted rooms - as low as $119! Book your room at book.passkey.com/e/51040986 to have the discount automatically applied! Rooms must be booked before June 6 to receive the special rate.

Woke up this morning so excited and proud to be @unionomaha.bsky.social fans. This was posted on FB in response to a comment on the day against homophobia post - in response to a "stick to soccer" response asking where the hate is. Thank you, Adminho, you don't know how much it means.

Need a room for Heartland Pride? We’ve partnered with the downtown Omaha Hilton to offer discounted rooms - as low as $119! Book through book.passkey.com/e/51040986 to have the discount automatically applied. Rooms must be booked by June 6 to receive the discount.

We are so excited to be partnering with @pattiegonia for their environmental drag show SAVE HER! coming to Omaha next Wednesday, April 23, at The Admiral. We hope to see you there! Get your tickets at www.etix.com/ticket/p/947...!

Grab your friends and join us on Saturday, May 10 at FLIXX Lounge & Cabaret Show Bar to see your favorite local performers battle for the opportunity to perform on the main stage at this year’s Heartland Pride Festival! The doors open at 9 pm and the show begins at 10. We hope to see you there!

Join us for an amazing Drag Brunch on May 4 at Sips on 10th and be the first to hear about our star-studded entertainment lineup for this year’s Heartland Pride Festival! Learn more and purchase your tickets at www.sipson10th.com/event-detail...!

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Recent polling shows that visibility and representation are the biggest tools we have to combat anti-trans hate and policies. We thank all of our trans family who are visible and represent. We also look forward to a world where it's not such a big deal.

Mark your calendars and start assembling your teams! This year’s Bump, Set, Slay! volleyball tournament is set for May 3. All proceeds help fund Heartland Pride’s scholarship program. Registration is open now! Visit heartlandpride.org/event/bump-s... to learn more and register.

We are thrilled to announce that vendor and parade entry applications are now open for the 2025 Heartland Pride Parade & Festival! Your participation will help fund the celebration, scholarships & community initiatives throughout the year. Visit heartlandpride.org to submit your application today!

Applications for the Star City Pride Events scholarship are now open! Please visit starcityprideevents.org/2025-star-ci... to learn more and apply.

🚨Deadline Alert🚨 Applications to perform at this year’s Pride festival are due March 17! 🌈 Submit your application at forms.gle/Vsdo3d7RnPXr... today! Questions? Contact [email protected].

Special Pride Night Offer - make sure to use code PRIDENIGHT25!