PFLAG Atlanta will march in the Atlanta Pride 2011 Parade!
We march!
It’s October again and time for the 41st Annual Atlanta PRIDE Festival! This year too, PFLAG Atlanta will be marching in the Pride parade at 1pm on Sunday Oct 9th as well as have a booth in the Pride Festival Market on both Oct 8th and 9th from 11am to 5pm.
March with Us!
If you are marching with us this year at the Pride Parade, make sure you are present near the PFLAG Atlanta truck outside the MARTA Civic Center Station latest by 12.30pm. Please note that there is NO parking near the station, so please utilize public transport/MARTA to get there. The parade itself steps off at 1pm and the parade route is a slow walk of about 2 miles from the Civic Center station to Piedmont Park.
Where: PFLAG Atlanta float/truck outside MARTA Civic Center station
When: Latest by 12.30pm (Sunday Oct 9th, 2011)
Our theme this year is “Welcome Home” .
If this is your first Atlanta Pride festival, nothing you have experienced so far can quite prepare you for the amazing experience that is Pride weekend. Atlanta and all of Georgia and the Southeast comes together to show our love and support for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning friends and family. We are proud of how far we’ve come but mindful, also, of how far we yet have to go for full equality and acceptance of our LGBTQ dads, moms, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters. If you’ve ever been puzzled about why it’s called ‘Pride’, you need to be there in person to witness the thousands strong crowd cheer deafeningly for our PFLAG contingent as it marches down Peachtree and 10th Street. People run onto the street to tearfully hug our parents and thank us for the work PFLAG does for the community.
