Celebrate pride.
Build community.
Spark joy.
Help us celebrate our Executive Director’s 13th year by giving to Our Lucky 13 Accessible Joy Fund.
Our Mission
Disability Pride Pennsylvania (DPP) exists to celebrate disability, build community, and advance disability justice by centering disabled leadership and lived experience across Pennsylvania.
Who We Serve:
Disabled people across the Commonwealth, with a focus on creating inclusive spaces where disabled voices, leadership, and culture are visible, valued, and empowered.
Building Community & Culture
DPP’s goals are to center disabled leadership in all programs and decisions, build inclusive and accessible community spaces, amplify disabled voices in civic and cultural life, reduce barriers to participation through education and advocacy, and strengthen partnerships that advance disability justice statewide.
This video was taken at the 3rd Annual Disability Pride Pittsburgh celebration on August 24, 2024. The event brought together community, music, comedy, poetry, and games at Schenley Plaza.
Empowerment
Disability Pride Pennsylvania inspires individuals with disabilities to lead the movement for equity and inclusion while actively working toward systemic change in every aspect of life. Through collaboration and partnerships, the organization builds collective power and momentum toward a world where everyone, regardless of ability, has equal access, opportunities, and representation.
In the video, State Representative Joe Hohenstein speaks about our Capitol Crawl in Harrisburg!
Disability Pride Merch
Wear your pride! Our new shop offers tees, tanks, hoodies, and more in S- 5XL(in select sizes) sizes. New merch coming soon!
Claiming Space
“Disability culture must arise out of the spontaneous desire of disabled people to share our feelings, experiences and desires, our loves and hates, our pleasures as well as our sufferings, amongst ourselves. In other words, we have to make the choice that we want to identify ourselves as disabled people. We have to be willing to express our separate identity. There can be no disability culture without this freely made choice.” —Vic Finklestein, co-founder of the Disability Arts and Disability Rights Movements
