Before the scheduled entertainment graced the newly built stage of Lock 3 for the 2025 Akron Pride Festival, thousands of community members gathered to walk together down Main Street for the Akron Equity March on Saturday.
The theme for this year’s event was “United As One.”
“Standing together as a community and lifting each other up by becoming active in other marginalized community issues is how we achieve change,” organizers said in the description of the event…