Rehoboth Beach Pride 2026 takes place July 15-19. The festival takes place Saturday July 18th, 2026. Are you interested in volunteering to help plan Rehoboth Beach Pride? Then join this google group or email info@sussexpride.org.
Sign up to be a sponsor here. (we are no longer accepting new vendors or additions to the vendor waiting list).
Friday Events (in formation)
- 6:00 PM Rehoboth Beach Pride Interfaith Service: a gathering for healing and reconciliation. This event takes place at MCC Rehoboth: more about this event | facebook event.
- 8:00 PM Pride Celebration and Dine and Donate with the Rehoboth Beach Bears. This event takes place at the Pines.
Saturday Events (in formation)
Rehoboth Beach Pride Festival The Festival takes place from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center. If you are coming from out of town, we recommend you take the Park & Ride. We will have live performances, workshops, and meetups. A raffle at Rehoboth Beach Pride will raise money to support unhoused LGBTQ+ Youth.
Rehoboth Pride Festival Workshops (All workshops are Saturday July 18th in the Convention Center. List is in development)
- 9:20 AM: Story Time with Kadet Kelly: Families and their kiddos are invited to kick-off the festival with Kadet Kelly and some awesome books for kiddos.
more about this event - 10:30 AM: Brianna Hill: Supporting Unhoused LGBTQ+ Youth in Delaware. Briana Hill, a reporter with Spotlight Delaware who recently completed a series of articles around housing in Delaware, will moderate a panel discussion on supporting our unhoused LGBTQ+ Youth.
more about this event | facebook event - 12:50 PM: Nico Lang: Trans and Nonbinary Youth in Delaware. Nico author of American Teenager, How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era, will moderate panel discussion about the needs of trans and nonbinary youth in Delaware featuring local youth and parents, and provide insights from their book. more about this event | facebook event
- 2:00 PM: Kevin Naff: Stem the Surge: End the Epidemic. Kevin Naff, editor of the Washington Blade, will moderate a panel discussion addressing the increase in HIV/AIDS and STI’s in the past few years while funding for HIV prevention has been dramatically cut back. Join us for an important community conversation about how we move forward.
more about this event | facebook event
Meetups at Rehoboth Beach Pride
Meetups are informal, peer-facilitated discussions so that folks with the same lived experience have the opportunity to connect and talk about whatever is on their mind. Meetups will gather in the reception area.
- 9:20 AM: Bi & Pan Meetup. An opportunity for the bisexual and pansexual community to connect. more about this event
- 11:40 AM: LGBTQ+ Youth Meetup. LGBTQ+ Youth are invited to join us for an ice cream social. more about this event
Rehoboth Beach Pride Evening Show: Gay Women of Rehoboth present comedian Karen Mills and musician Kristen Merlin at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center. Doors open at 6:00 PM, Show starts at 7:00 PM. Get your tickets now! more about this event
Sunday Events (in formation)
- Steve Gellman Book Signing (Sunday July 19th, 1:30 PM, Browseabout Books) Browseabout books will host Steven Gellman for a book signing for his new book Somewhere in Nowhere.
more about this event
See pictures from Rehoboth Beach Pride 2025, 2024 & 2023
