Since the birth of DC Black Pride, more than thirty other Black Pride celebrations now take place throughout the world, many using DC Black Pride as the model.Ĭlick image below to learn more about previous Prides. The tradition continues- bigger and bolder than ever-in-person May 27–30, 2022.įor more than 30 years, DC Black Pride has been a place for the Black LGBTQIA+ community to gather and celebrate each other.ĭC Black Pride was the catalyst for what is now referred to as the Black Pride Movement. New Orleans Pride Weekend is officially set for June 9-12, with the Pride Parade on June 11, but you can find events all month long, including Black Pride. Stonewall Columbus Pride Community Festival & Resource Fair Goodale Park (4pm 10pm) June 18. Stonewall Columbus Pride Brunch (fundraiser) Columbus Athenaeum (11am 1pm) June 17. While much progress has been made across the globe since 1991, there remains a need to educate the community about HIV/AIDS and stand against homophobia inspired violence and bigotry that remains prevalent throughout society. City Hall Pride Illumination at dusk (7:30pm) June 5. Los Angeles was the first city in the world to host a permitted gay pride parade, and you can see history in action with the 52nd annual event on June 1012. Since 1991, more than 900,000 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of African descent and their allies have come to Washington, DC during Memorial Day Weekend in the spirit of Black Pride to celebrate the beauty of the LGBTQ+ community and raise awareness and funding for HIV/AIDS. The first DC Black Pride drew 800 people to Banneker Field, and centered around a theme of “Let’s All Come Together”.
The Royal Mint marks 50 years of Pride UK with first LGBTQ+ coin. Auditions for Prides Got Talent 2022 are now open. Then, from 2009 to 2016, Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. The effort they initiated to educate the community 30 years ago, has led to a movement that has impacted the lives of millions of Black LGBTQ+ individuals around the world. Pride in London 2022 parade returns to its historic route.
No matter how you choose to celebrate Pride this year, please remember those who fought for equal rights before you, and take part in carrying forward this work as one of those who still does.In 1991, Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland and Ernest Hopkins saw a need to rally the Washington, DC community around what was happening with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Annual Pride events such as parades, concerts, workshops, and exhibitions enable LGBTQ+ people and allies to celebrate their genders and sexualities and advocate for further change.
Gay Pride Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark: August 15 - 21. Antwerp Gay Pride 2022 takes place from August 10th-14th, with the Parade on Saturday, followed by the free, open-air WAVE street festival, dance parties, and many more LGBT events and activities. Pride is now an annual global event which celebrates the lives, history, and culture of the LGBTQ+ community and the diverse, vibrant people who enrich and sustain it. Antwerp Gay Pride, Antwerp, Belgium: August 10 - 14.
These riots sparked equal rights movements for the LGBTQ+ community, which further supported the “Gay Liberation” movement, and led to a global designation of June as Pride Month. The uprising of the Stonewall Inn was related to a long history of discrimination and mistreatment of LGBTQ+ people in New York, and globally. On the early morning of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Riots began in New York City in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in Greenwich Village. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, or just Pride Month for short, is an holiday that is celebrated each year in the month of June.