Black gay pride atlanta

In cities around the country, June is the designated month to honor the LGBTQ+ experience. But Atlanta — considered widely to be the Black gay mecca — moves to its own beat.

Up until 2007, Atlanta’s annual celebration of homosexual identity and rights took place every June, a nod to the Stonewall Uprising in Fresh York City. In 1969, a stretch of protests and riots in response to police discrimination and persecution of queer people helped propel America’s queer liberation movement, inspiring former President Bill Clinton to designate June as Same-sex attracted and Lesbian Identity Month on Stonewall’s 30-year anniversary. (Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden broadened the designation to include double attraction, transgender, queer, and intersex identities.)

But the tradition changed in 2008, when the city of Atlanta temporarily prohibited immense events at Piedmont Park due to a drought, causing organizers to postpone festivities until October, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The timing stuck. For the past 17 years, Atlanta Pride — anchored by a weeklong festival best acknowledged for its extravagant parade — has been centered in the early days of autumn, which is fitting for its