9th Anniversary Pulse Memorial Events in Orlando 2025

As we approach the 9th Anniversary of the Pulse tragedy, Orlando remembers the 49 beautiful angels that were sadly taken from our community.

Pride Month in Orlando features a multitude of events and celebrations, but June has a poignant significance to the local community here in Orlando, as thoughts turn to the anniversary of the tragic events that unfolded on June 12, 2016, a night that evil visited Orlando in the form of a gunman who entered Pulse Nightclub and killed 49 innocent angels and wounded 53 more in what was at the time, the countries worst ever mass shooting.

The Pulse Nightclub shooting is a horrific event that Orlando will never forget, an event that both devastated and brought our community together

This year is the ninth anniversary of the Pulse tragedy, and there is several community-wide remembrance events to remember the 49 angels and uplift survivors, victims’ families and our entire community.

Pulse Remembrance Events 2025

Annual CommUNITY Rainbow Run 2025

June 8

The annual CommUNITY Rainbow Run is a celebration of how following the Pulse tragedy, our community came together in love and how we continue to be Orlando United. At the CommUNITY Rainbow Run we unite to honor the 49 angels, their families, the survivors, first responders and all those impacted. 

Join the city for the 9th Annual CommUNITY Rainbow Run, presented by Orlando Health. More than a race, this is a celebration of our community's enduring resilience and love.

This year, we run with renewed hope as the Pulse Memorial continues to move forward now that a conceptual design is complete, and an opening is expected in late 2027.

Net proceeds from the event will go towards the Orlando United Pulse Memorial, a project within Strengthen Orlando, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with the goal to construct a permanent memorial at the Pulse site.

Prayer Ribbons Memorial Exhibition

June 9 - 13

Following the Pulse tragedy, Prayer Ribbons from Provincetown, Massachusetts, featuring the names of the 49 victims written in gold on black ribbons and messages of hope on colorful ribbons, were on display at Harry P. Leu Gardens and Orlando City Hall Plaza to remind our community that cities around the country were supporting Orlando after its darkest day.

The ribbons were introduced in Cape Cod in the 1990s via a philanthropic organization, Provincetown Community Compact, featuring messages for loved ones who lost their battle with AIDS. These ribbons are a testament to their loving memory and resilience. Like communities across the country, Provincetown, Massachusetts was shocked and outraged by the tragedy at Pulse. In response, the Provincetown Community Compact has continually sent to our Orlando community these colorful ribbons to memorialize the 49 victims.

Through this memorial strand of Prayers Ribbons, the city of Provincetown, Massachusetts honors the strength and resilience of our Orlando community.

The Prayer Ribbons Memorial Exhibition will be displayed at Orlando City Hall Plaza from June 9-16, 2025.

Pulse Remembrance Ceremony

June 12

Join the City of Orlando for the annual Pulse Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, June 12, 2025, at First United Methodist Church in Downtown Orlando to honor and remember the 49 angels taken, their families, the survivors, first responders, trauma teams and all those impacted by the tragedy.  

The ceremony will include the reading of the names of the 49 angels, the tolling of 49 bells, remarks from family members and survivors, as well as musical and cultural performances 

Doors will open at 5 p.m. with the program beginning at 5:30 p.m. 

If you are unable to attend in person, the ceremony will be streamed live.

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