The amended complaint seeks a permanent injunction preventing the city from restricting Naples Pride's Pridefest permits; that Steele declare that the city's restrictions and permitting violated the ...

Naples Pride filed an amended complaint challenging the high security fees and restrictions imposed on their 2025 Pridefest drag show. The lawsuit claims that the city's actions violated the First ...

Consequently, Naples Pride was forced to hold its 2023-2024 drag performances in a small indoor venue that, according to them, “accommodated only a fraction of the performance’s typical audience.

On July 29, which marked the deadline set by District Judge John Steele, Naples Pride filed an amended complaint. Pridefest carried on with its drag show held indoors on June 7 where people ...