Broomfield’s fifth annual Pride event commemorates a month dedicated to “joy, visibility and connection.”

When Broomfield Pride began in 2021, with nine local organizations on board, it was assembled in just six short weeks of planning. Five years later, the event has grown to include over 50 sponsors and partners that will be on site, a DJ throwing a big dance party, multiple food trucks, kids’ activities, like face painting and games, and more entertainment.

An organizer of Broomfield Pride, Sasha Davis, said that the local LGBTQ community doesn’t really have gathering places, or opportunities to find each other.

“We’re trying to use Pride as an avenue to build that, and be able to know that we’re not as alone as it can feel sometimes,” Sasha Davis said.

Davis started the nonprofit Rainbow Broomfield that puts on the event. She said that even though surrounding communities have pride celebrations people can travel to, it’s important for Broomfielders to have their celebration.

“Broomfield was very conservative for a very long time, and a lot of (our community) ended up closeted, more or less, by accident,” Davis said. “All of our communities deserve to have our moment of pride … and Broomfielders being able to find each other and have a day of so much joy is so important.”

On Monday, Mayor Guyleen Castriotta spoke at the annual Pride flag-raising ceremony, and at the Broomfield City Council meeting on Tuesday, declared June 2025 as LGBTQIA Pride Month in the county.

“Pride is a time of joy, visibility, and connection — but it’s also a time of reflection,” Castriotta said. “We honor the pioneers of the LGBTQ rights movement, those who stood up and spoke out in the face of injustice so that future generations could live with more freedom, dignity and pride. We’ve come a long way, but we also recognize there is still work to do. Pride is not just a celebration — it’s a commitment. A commitment to justice, to equity and to standing up for one another.”

Davis said that with a husband and children, people can’t always tell she’s queer. Using Pride as a way to organize and build up the LGBTQ community in Broomfield has been a way for her to reconnect with her community, she said.

“One day I looked around and realized all my friends were straight — and that creep into heteronormativity was an accident,” she said. “It gets tiring to come out over and over again in conversations, but the more people I find and connections I make, the more I’m really committed to it.”

Broomfield Pride takes place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Community Park, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, with festivities set up south of Des Combes Drive and west of the Broomfield Amphitheater. Find the map and more information at rainbowbroomfield.org.