The mission of Bloomington Pride is to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people of all ages by creating safe and inclusive spaces, challenging stereotypes, celebrating LGBTQ+ arts, and enriching south central Indiana/s community and culture through events and services.
Bloomington PRIDE works to achieve its mission in a number of ways—both visible and behind the scenes.
The Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival explores the lives and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community through feature-length and short films and live performances that advocate community-wide attitudes of awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of diversity.
The PRIDE Film Festival was founded in 2003 by two Indiana University Arts Administration graduate students through a partnership with Bloomington's historic Buskirk-Chumley Theater. It was an instant success, drawing an audience from around the country. The BCT kept the festival running as an annual event for a decade until it was incorporated into a freestanding organization.
The Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival continues to explore a wide variety of issues and situations involving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities through live performance, lecture, public participation events, and films that express a wide range of viewpoints and feature many different personality types and situations, advocating community-wide attitudes of awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of diversity.
The College of Arts