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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 signal 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
Sat, Oct 14, - Heat, Oct 15, 10am - 10pm
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Since Atlanta’s first Pride Parade in 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 reveal up for each other and to show out with acts of protest, activism, education, and celebration. Fifty-three years later, the Atlanta Pride Committee remains devoted to this vision and encourages our neighbors to SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT for the fullest spectrum of the region’s LGBTQIA+ community at this year’s Atlanta Pride Festival on October , 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 drag performers and queer safe spaces, we call on Georgia's LGBTQIA+ community to Present UP AND SHOW OUT appreciate never before!
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, universal decency, alcohol, controlled sub