Pride is coming to the Island this weekend.

The fourth annual pride parade begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 14 at the Oak Bluffs roundabout and will end at Ocean Park.

Sofie Green, the parade organizer, said that the event is an important opportunity for the LGBTQ+ community to come together and feel accepted.

“On the Island, it means visibility, it means community,” Ms. Green said. “I remember the first year,,,I had a former high schooler pull me aside and say ‘I never thought this would happen and I’m just so grateful.’ The more I hear that, the more I feel we should come out.”

After the parade, there will be a resource tent at Ocean Park with informational booths for a variety of Island and off-Island organizations.

Scott Mullin, the organizer behind the resource tent, said that it has grown in the three years since it started.

“We ended up not being able to take everyone this year because we weren’t anticipating the number of people who wanted to come,” he said. “It’s really exciting that people want to come.”

New organizations at the tent include Fenway Health, an LGBTQ+ focused healthcare organization, and gay-straight alliances from Island schools.

Weekend celebrations begin at The Ritz on Friday. The Circuit avenue bar threw a pride party in 2021, which inspired Ms. Green to start the first pride parade the following year, she said.

On Sunday, Red Cat Kitchen will host a drag queen brunch. Other businesses will be celebrating throughout the weekend.

Ms. Green said that LGBTQ+ visibility was particularly important given the current political climate.

“If we want our Islanders to be seen, we have to come out and do this, especially in a time like this,” she said.