"A group of people marching during the People's Pride Coalition event in Ybor City. A person in the foreground carries a large blue, pink, and white Transgender Pride flag. The marchers are positioned in front of the historic, white-pillared Italian Club building under a clear, sunny sky. — People’s Pride Coalition march in Ybor City, Florida on March 14, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Seventh Avenue has a reputation for being the backdrop for radical political activity, from the 1937 Antifascist Women’s March, to a recent re-enactment of it, and of course last Saturday’s People’s Pride Coalition march.

Organized in part by the Tampa chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the Tampa Immigrant RIghts Committee, the action started and ended at Centennial Park in Ybor City.

Meant to acknowledge the hiatus that Tampa’s big Pride parade is on, a press release said the march also hoped “to raise awareness of pinkwashing that is often put onto the LGBT community to justify imperialism, and to also show that pride can happen in Tampa without corporate sponsorships.”