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Know before you go: Hot weather, road closures and entertainment at Nashville Pride

  • Nashville Pride kicks off Saturday morning with the annual Pride Parade
  • Roads around the festival grounds will be closed throughout the week
  • Tickets are free online and at the main festival gates

Pack the sunscreen, carpool with friends, and check out the free parade at Tennessee's largest pride festival this weekend in Nashville.

Here's everything to know about Nashville Pride  

Parade starts the fun

The parade kicks off the festivities for the weekend at 10 a.m. Saturday on the corner of Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The parade will march down Lower Broadway to Second Avenue. It is free to attend. 

The parade grand marshals are TJ Osborn, Leslie Jordan, Greg Cason and Alberta Hardison. The parade will take place across one mile and is expected to last two and a half hours. It will feature entries and over 18, participants. 

How to get to the fest

Festival organizers recommend using rideshare or biking to the festival to ease the strain on downtown parking and traffic volumes. 

IN PHOTOS: Nashville Pride

On June 25, , Nashville hosted its annual Pride Festival at Bicentennial Capitol Mall. I, along with some other Vanderbilt students, bore the heat and star to celebrate alongside Nashville residents. 

The festival served as a way for attendees to express every facet of their identity. People showed up in full rainbow attire, draped in pride flag capes or in everyday street clothes. Festival goers of all ages bonded through the shared experience of being seen (some for the first time).

The thing I love most about Pride is the amount of personal expression displayed at the events. Performers take the stage and talk about their struggles, experiences and the weight of the celebrations to them. Nicholas Petricca, Walk the Moon frontman, shared at Nashville Pride this year that it was the first Pride he has attended since coming out. Many times throughout the festival, we were reminded that there is an ongoing fight for equality despite being able to celebrate that day. With the Supreme Court overturningRoe v. Wade () the day prior, artists and festiva

WPLN&#;s Pride Guide: Dozens of LGBTQ events planned in Nashville this week

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It&#;s nearing the end of Pride Month, but this weekend in Nashville, there&#;s the annual parade and music festival, plus dozens of other shows and events across the city.

More:Celebrating Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community, past and present

These celebrations come, though, as tensions rise over being LGBTQ+ and proud in conservative-led states love Tennessee.

In modern times, Pride has become a happy time of rainbows and glitter and dancing and drinking, but the history that led to the celebration is dark. And shadows still linger for the queer community. As NPR recently reported, far right groups are shifting attention to LGBTQ events nationwide and, here in Tennessee, legislation has increasinglytargetedmembersofthecommunity.

You can catch glimpses of that in between the lines of the many Pride parties happening this week in Nashville. In the descriptions, you&#;ll witness proceeds benefitting groups like the Trevor Project, PFLAG Nashville, Just Us at the Oasis Center, the Tennessee Equality Projec

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (Bridgestone), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, a global leader in tires and sustainable mobility solutions, will serve as the presenting sponsor of the annual Nashville Pride Festival for the ninth consecutive year. The effort is a continuation of Bridgestone’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) within the company and community.

Although Bridgestone has supported the Nashville Pride Festival for more than a decade, this year’s festival coincides with a significant milestone in the company’s DE&I history. Recently, Bridgestone launched its expanded DE&I Center of Excellence (COE) and its “Free to Be” initiative that emphasizes the strength in diversity and encourages teammates to bring their whole selves to work. The expansion is part of Bridgestone’s transformation into a sustainable solutions company and aligns with its global E8 Commitment, an effort that focuses on Bridgestone’s greatest challenges and opportunities relating to equity and inclusion, sustainable mobility, environmental preservation and mo