Gay pride weekend atlanta
Date and Time for this Past Event
Sunday, Oct 13, 2024 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 Lgbtq+ fest Parade is the biggest event of the Festival. Join us for the city's largest parade, which draws over 100,000 people along the streets of Midtown Atlanta!
Pride Parade Kickoff
Sunday, October 13th 9AM - 12:00PM SHARP.
Assembly begins at 9:30AM 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 Lane, the parade will twist right onto 10th Lane 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, widespread decency, alcohol, controlled substances, public safety, and accepted vehicle insurance requirements.
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Atlanta Pride Parade and Festival
Atlanta Identity festival 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 show is provided. Any member of the Emory collective is welcome to participate.
Date and Time for this Past Event
Sat, Oct 14, 2023 - Sun, Oct 15, 2023 10am - 10pm
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Since Atlanta’s first Self-acceptance Parade in 1970 on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Atlanta’s Parade—and subsequently, its Festival—has galvanized the LGBTQIA+ community in Georgia and across the South to show up for each other and to show out with acts of protest, advocacy, education, and celebration. Fifty-three years later, the Atlanta Pride Committee remains pledged to this vision and encourages our neighbors to SHOW UP AND Exhibit OUT for the fullest spectrum of the region’s LGBTQIA+ community at this year’s Atlanta Pride Festival on October 14-15, 2023 in Piedmont Park.
In this time of increased political turmoil, violent attacks on the transgender community, especially our trans siblings of color, efforts to silence transgender and gender-expansive youth, and unprecedented threats and legislation aimed at kingly performers and queer reliable spaces, we call on Georgia's LGBTQIA+ community to SHOW UP AND Exhibit OUT like never before!
Pride
Organized by Georgia’s Gay Liberation Front, Atlanta’s first Celebration march took place on June 27, 1971.
“We tried to get a authorize from the ACLU. They turned us down flat: we weren’t a minority, they said, and they couldn’t help us. And the city also refused a permit. So we had to have our march down the sidewalks and stop at every light, unless we had the green light, of course. We had, by actual count, 125 people. And I do understand that because I was the marshal and counted them myself – twice!”
Berl Boykin, From Stonewall to the Millennium Panel, June 2000
“There was a bunch of us just running downtown. Maria Dolan was in a wheelchair for some reason, and we were all dressed as aliens. And we said, “We deserve our rights.” (laughter) It was so stupid, but we had so much fun. We’re pushing a wheelchair, and she’s going, “Faster! Faster!” Yeah, I loved those early marches. Now they’re like corporate, corporate, corporate.”
Stephanie Miller, December 11, 2015
Pride Expands
In 1983, the first Dyke March was held during Pride weekend. Today, Pride celebrations
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