Atlanta Pride 2011
2011 Atlanta Pride Festival
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.
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.
If you sign up or renew your membership this September, you will receive a free t-shirt that you can wear as you march with the PFLAG Atlanta contingent in the Atlanta PRIDE parade on Sunday Oct 9th at 1pm. Offer valid till Oct 1st 2011
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” . Special PFLAG Atlanta Pride 2011 T-shirts are available here.
Visit Us!
On Saturday Oct 8th and Sunday Oct 9th, we will be in the Pride Festival Market at the PFLAG Atlanta booth from 11am to 5pm. Come by and see us! We have new brochures this year so be sure to take home a couple and place it at work, school or your place of worship.
We’re still looking for a couple of volunteers to help us at the booth. If you feel like you can help by sharing your PFLAG experiences or just by giving someone a hug, email us!
If you’d like to see some of the other events happening around Atlanta Pride, take a look at the Official Atlanta Pride website
Support Us!
If you cannot attend Atlanta Pride in person, remember PFLAG Atlanta still needs your support for all the important work we continue to do to support our LGBTQ friends and family, educate the public and advocate for equality. PFLAG has touched each of our lives in deeply personal ways - support PFLAG with a donation, no matter how small, to show how much you care.
To donate online, visit www.pflagatl.org/support
Or, mail us a check supporting PFLAG ATLANTA to 1295 Home Place Dr., Lawrenceville GA 30043
Remember, we want Atlanta’s LGBTQ community to know that they will ALWAYS have a home in PFLAG! PFLAG pays back in hugs and good karma!
Thanks so much for your love and support over the years,
Would you like to march with us? Email [email protected] and use “Atlanta Pride 2011″ in the subject line.
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