Atlanta gay pride events

While Atlanta doesn’t host its official Pride festival and parade until October, queer Atlantans don’t hold to wait to celebrate. Pride organizations across Georgia are celebrating this month with festivals, parades, parties, and more.

Facing challenges enjoy a lack of funding and harassment, smaller Pride organizations are fighting to provide safe and celebratory spaces for vulnerable LGBTQ+ Southerners – and supporting them is more important than ever.

Columbus Pride

ColGay Pride will host their 12th annual Pride festival at Woodruff Riverfront Park on June 6 and 7. The festivities kick off with the Mr/Miss/Mx Columbus Georgia Pride Pageant on June 6 from 7 to 10 p.m. before a entire day of festivities on June 7.

Despite facing more challenges than in years past, this year’s Pride celebration will be bigger than ever before, with a bigger venue, a brand-new entertainment stage, three different drag shows throughout the day, and the first-ever bi-city Pride parade with Phenix City, AL.

With federally funded sponsors pulling their support due to anti-LGBTQ+ pressures fr

Atlanta Pride Parade and Festival

Atlanta Pride Parade and Festival

Each year, LGBT Life hosts a pre-parade breakfast for the Emory community before heading to our annual spot in the Atlanta Pride Parade. Transportation to the parade starting verb is provided. Any member of the Emory community is welcome to participate.

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In cities around the country, June is the designated month to honor the LGBTQ+ experience. But Atlanta — considered widely to be the Black gay mecca — moves to its own beat.

Up until , Atlanta’s annual celebration of queer identity and rights took place every June, a nod to the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. In , a stretch of protests and riots in response to police discrimination and persecution of queer people helped propel America’s gay liberation movement, inspiring former President Bill Clinton to designate June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month on Stonewall’s year anniversary. (Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden broadened the designation to include bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex identities.)

But the tradition changed in , when the city of Atlanta temporarily prohibited large events at Piedmont Park due to a drought, causing organizers to postpone festivities until October, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The timing stuck. For the past 17 years, Atlanta Pride — anchored by a weeklong festival best known for its extrava

Date and Time for this Past Event

  • Sunday, Oct 13,   12pm - 4pm

Location

Traditionally stepping off from the Atlanta Civic Center MARTA Station at noon on Sunday and continuing down Peachtree Street, the parade will turn right onto 10th Street and end a block from the Charles Allen Gates to Piedmont Park.

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The Atlanta Pride Parade is the biggest event of the Festival. Join us for the city's largest parade, which draws over , people along the streets of Midtown Atlanta!
Pride Parade Kickoff
Sunday, October 13th 9AM - PM SHARP.
Assembly begins at AM on the streets near the Civic Center MARTA Station.
Route:
Traditionally stepping off from the Atlanta Civic Center MARTA Station at noon on Sunday and continuing down Peachtree Street, the parade will change right onto 10th Street and end a block from the Charles Allen Gates to Piedmont Park.
Security:
The Atlanta Police Department enforces all applicable state laws and local ordinances during Pride events. Such statutes may include but are not limited to, general decency, alcohol, controlled sub