Find Your People: Pride of Southern Utah's 2026 Theme
This year, our theme is simple: Find Your People.
It's an invitation. It's a promise. And honestly, it's the story of how this entire organization came to be.
There's a moment that almost every LGBTQ+ person in Southern Utah knows.
You're at a family dinner, or in a church pew, or in a high school hallway, and you look around and think: Does anyone here actually see me? Is there anyone else like me out here?
For a lot of us, that question went unanswered for a long time. Maybe years. Maybe decades.
The search for community and belonging can feel difficult and lonely. But it doesn’t have to be.
We started Pride of Southern Utah because we refused to accept that loneliness. We decided to create a place where every LGBTQ+ person can feel safe, seen and supported all year round.
What "Find Your People" Means to Us
This year, our theme is simple: Find Your People.
It's an invitation. It's a promise. And honestly, it's the story of how this entire organization came to be.
Because every person who has ever walked into a POSU event — nervous, curious, maybe a little unsure of what they'd find — has walked out knowing at least one more person who gets it. Who sees them. Who is genuinely glad they showed up.
That is not a small thing. In a region where LGBTQ+ community infrastructure is sometimes hidden and where it’s a delicate dance of being your full self and fitting in, finding your people can feel like finding water in the desert.
Welcome to your own personal oasis of community.
Who Are "Your People"?
Here's what we've learned after years of building community in Southern Utah: your people aren't always who you expect.
Your people might be the 60-year-old woman who came to her first POSU coffee meetup six months after her daughter came out, trying to figure out how to be the mom her kid needed.
Your people might be the college student from Cedar City who drove 45 minutes to a Dragalicious show on a whim and ended up finding a chosen family in the parking lot afterward.
Your people might be the straight business owner in St. George who quietly puts a Pride sticker in their window every June and has been waiting for a way to do more.
Your people might be someone you haven't met yet. Someone who right now is doing exactly what you did — searching, wondering, hoping there's something out there for them.
There is. And we're building it together.
What We're Building This Year
"Find Your People" isn't just a theme — it's the organizing principle behind everything POSU is doing in 2026.
It means more events designed for first-timers, where showing up solo is completely normal and you'll leave with a few names in your phone.
It means monthly coffee meetups, yoga classes, lake days, and park days — low-key, low-pressure ways to keep coming back and go deeper with the community you've found.
It means Dragalicious, our flagship drag show, returning this spring and fall — because there is nothing quite like being in a room full of people who are all, in their own way, completely, joyfully, themselves.
It means our September Pride Festival: the biggest, loudest, most joyful declaration we make all year that LGBTQ+ people are here, we belong here, and we're not going anywhere.
And it means we're actively working to make sure that if someone in St. George, Washington, Hurricane, Cedar City, or anywhere across the region is looking for a community — they can find us.
An Invitation
If you've been on the edge of getting involved — this is your year.
Come to one event. Just one. Bring a friend, or don't. Stay for an hour.
We think you'll find that Southern Utah's LGBTQ+ community is bigger than you expected, and more full of remarkable people than you can imagine.
Your people are out here. Let's find each other.
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