October’s celebration honored and reclaimed a history once nearly erased.

For visitors, it might come as a surprise that Hawaiʻi celebrates Pride in October, not June. Locals, however, expect the traffic and the parade rolling through Waikīkī as Halloween decorations appear.

This timing was intentional: organizers chose October to coincide with other LGBTQIA+ awareness events such as National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) and LGBTQIA+ History Month, as well as to take advantage of Hawaiʻi’s milder autumn weather for the parade.

Around the globe , Pride celebrates a new way of loving: to grow and live beyond traditional ideas of gender, sexuality, and identity. In Hawaiʻi, it does that and something more. Our Pride is a revitalization of the māhū spirit, which has been sacred in Hawaiian c

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