Roanoke LGBTQ Pride – Early April 2023, dates TBA Mobile Gay Pride/Southern Alabama Gay Pride – Early April 2023, dates TBA Miami Beach LGBTQ Pride/Miami LGBTQ Pride – Early April 2023, dates TBA Tampa LGBTQ Pride – Late March 2023, dates TBAĬhapel Hill LGBTQ Pride/Carolina Pride Week in Chapel Hill - Early April 2023, dates TBAĮureka Springs Spring Diversity Weekend/Eureka Springs LGBTQ Pride – Early April 2023, dates TBA Palm Beach LGBTQ Pride/Lake Worth LGBTQ Pride - Late March 2023, dates TBA Pride Cape Coral/Fort Myers LGBTQ Pride – early March 2023, dates TBA 10-12, 2023īradenton LGBTQ Pride/Manatee Pride – early March 2023, dates TBA Pride of the Americas Fort Lauderdale/Fort Lauderdale LGBTQ Pride – Feb. National African American MSM Leadership Conference on Social Justice and Health Disparities – Mid-January 2023 (organization based in Atlanta conference held in Los Angeles in 2022, but dates and location for 2023 TBA) Also included on this last are a handful of LGBTQ Pride events that take place in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico and Curaçao. Pete, Nashville, Charlotte, New Orleans, Louisville, Richmond, Miami, Savannah, Charleston, Orlando, Eureka Springs, and many more.
Here’s a 20 calendar of Florida and Southern States Festivals festivals, including dates and links to official Pride sites for events in Atlanta, St.
Pictured above, Nashville LGBTQ Pride, photo by Andrew Collinsįor other parts of North America, also check out the following calendars:Ģ022 California and West Coast LGBTQ Pride CalendarĢ022 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic LGBTQ Pride CalendarĢ022 Plains and Midwest LGBTQ Pride CalendarĢ022 Rockies and Southwest LGBTQ Pride Calendar Events in this part of the world begin around February and continue throughout the year until October or November. And even going beyond some of these destinations with famous Pride events, a number of smaller Southern communities hold well-attended, fun, and spirited Pride events, from Charlottesville to Athens to Lexington. She told families to expect to see "cross-dressing men parading public displays of perversion" during their visit.With some of the largest and most dynamic LGBTQ communities in the country, Florida and the states that make up the South-Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky-are also home to many of the largest LGBTQ Pride festivals in the country. She encouraged families to re-think visiting Walt Disney World.
Janet Porter, president of the Christian organization "Faith 2 Action", is highly critical of the event. The Florida Family Association flew banner planes one year warning families of gay events at Disney that weekend, citing emails from people nationwide who unknowingly booked their vacation during Gay Days. The Southern Baptist Convention boycotted Disney for eight years. While Disney does not sanction Gay Days (and officially tells employees to treat it as any other summer day), conservative Christian groups accuse Disney of not doing anything to stop the event. Gay Days have attracted criticism from religious groups. Ī local Doubletree resort has dubbed itself the "official" hotel for the event, with convention space rented to various businesses (bathroom remodelers, gourmet cooking suppliers, sex toys, etc.) and organizations (free health tests, vaccinations, etc.) pitching to attendees. Growth in attendance also reflects the growing number of LGBT families with children as well as increasing number of LGBT marriages, since Disney World is also a top honeymoon destination. The popularity of the event is seen by some attendees as a way of "reclaiming" normal joys of childhood lost to homophobia in their earlier years. As of 2010 approximately 150,000 LGBT people, their families, friends and supporters attended the six-day gathering (including various pool parties, conventions, festivals, a business expo, activities for kids, etc.) with 20,000 to 30,000 going to Disney on the final day. By 1995, the event had grown to 10,000 gays and lesbians traveling for the gay day at Disney. The first documented event, in June 1991, had 3,000 LGBTQ+ people from central Florida going to area theme parks on one day wearing red shirts to make their presence more visible.