Atlanta Black Pride

Atlanta Black Pride Weekend (ABPW) started in 1996 and is one of two officially recognized festivals for the African American LGBT community. It is held in Atlanta each year at the end of August and beginning of September (week of Labor Day holiday).[1] It is the largest black gay pride festivals in the country [2] with approximately 100,000 people in attendance annually, the festival bills itself as the largest official black pride celebration in the world. The event plays a major part in the annual $65 million economic impact on Atlanta's economy during Labor Day weekend.[3][4]

The 2017 Pure Heat Community Festival in Piedmont Park

The city of Atlanta is widely noted for being a "Black Gay Mecca" due to its highly visible black LGBT community, plethora of pro-LGBT initiatives, and vibrant urban LGBT nightlife.[5] Atlanta also has the largest community of black same-sex couples in the South.[6]

See ATLBlackPride.com for a list of some annual events.

Winter Pride

January's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend is when Atlanta's first major pride event of the year is held. During this unofficial pride weekend, there are several special black gay events and celebrations for locals and visitors.[7]

King's wife and Atlanta resident, Coretta Scott King, was a well-known proud supporter of the black gay community. In 1998, Mrs. King publicly stated at the 25th Lambda Legal anniversary reception that she believes her late husband would have also been a supporter of LGBT rights'.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "DETOURS: Black Pride parties and rallies", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 30, 2007
  2. ↑ "Celebrating Black Gay Pride", National Public Radio, 2005
  3. ↑ "Big events to bring 600,000 people to Atlanta this weekend". Wsbtv.com. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "2017 Atlanta Black Gay Pride By The Numbers". Georgia Voice - Gay & LGBT Atlanta News. 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  5. ↑ "Atlanta the new mecca for black gays". Advocate.com. 16 August 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Jarvie, Jenny (2006-05-08). "Voice of Atlanta's Black Gays Is Emerging". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
  7. ↑ "LGBT Atlanta calls MLK Weekend 'Winter Pride'". Projectq.us. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Remember the words of Coretta Scott King, speaking of gay civil rights - AMERICAblog News". Americablog.com. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2017.


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