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Sunday, Oct 13, 2024 10am - 10pm
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Get ready to unite and ignite! In 2024, Atlanta Pride is rallying under our theme, “United With Pride.” With challenges to our rights on the rise, it’s crucial for the LGBTQ+ community to come together, united in our pursuit of equality and justice. Join us at the Atlanta Event Festival and Parade this October to celebrate our diversity, strength, and resilience. Let's demonstrate unity in action and show the world what it means to be “United With Pride!”
Join us at this year’s Atlanta Pride Festival in Piedmont Park on October 12-13, 2024.
Upgrade your Atlanta Pride Weekend with access to our luxurious Premium Lounge, where you'll enjoy covered seating, premium bathroom trailers, private bars, delicious snacks, phone charging stations, video monitors, and exclusive access to meet-and-greet experiences with our main stage headliners! Two (2) drink tickets per date are included, valid only in the Premium Lounge.
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Atlanta Pride Celebration and Festival
Each year, LGBT Existence hosts a pre-parade breakfast for the Emory community before heading to our annual spot in the Atlanta Self-acceptance Parade. Transportation to the parade starting point is provided. Any member of the Emory people is welcome to participate.
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 2007, Atlanta’s annual celebration of queer identity and rights took place every June, a nod to the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. In 1969, a stretch of protests and riots in response to police discrimination and persecution of homosexual people helped propel America’s homosexual liberation movement, inspiring former President Bill Clinton to designate June as Gay and Lesbian Lgbtq+ fest Month on Stonewall’s 30-year anniversary. (Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden broadened the designation to include bisexual, transgender, lgbtq+, and intersex identities.)
But the tradition changed in 2008, 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 Celebration — anchored by a weeklong festival best known for its extravagant parade — has been centered in the early days of autumn, which is fitting for its
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023 - Sun, Oct 15, 2023 10am - 10pm
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Since Atlanta’s first Pride Celebration in 1970 on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Atlanta’s Parade—and subsequently, its Festival—has galvanized the LGBTQIA+ group in Georgia and across the South to show up for each other and to production out with acts of protest, protest, education, and celebration. Fifty-three years later, the Atlanta Self-acceptance Committee remains pledged to this vision and encourages our neighbors to Display UP AND Reveal OUT for the fullest spectrum of the region’s LGBTQIA+ community at this year’s Atlanta Event Festival on October 14-15, 2023 in Piedmont Park.
In this time of increased political turmoil, vicious attacks on the transgender community, especially our trans siblings of color, attempts to silence gender nonconforming and gender-expansive youth, and unprecedented threats and legislation aimed at drag performers and queer secure spaces, we summon on Georgia's LGBTQIA+ community to Display UP AND Business OUT like never before!