Gay pride charlotte nc 2022
If you own or labor with a for-profit retail or commercial company, we invite you to submit an application for vendor/exhibition space at this year’s Charlotte Pride Festival, to be held on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17, . Our retail/commercial/for-profit vendor fee structure is as follows:
Retail/Commercial/For Profit ($/space)
NOTE: Corporate partners are invited to join us as sponsors and may not verb using this application. Sponsor packages often include a Festival Zone Vendor Space and/or Parade entry. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please reach out to our managing director at meredith@ for more information.
Vendors will be notified according to the schedule below.
Notification Deadlines and Dates:
Submission by February 5 - Notice by February 19
Submission by February 26 - Notice by March 12
Submission by April 2 – Notice by April 16
Submission by May 7 – Notice by May 21
Submission by June 11 (Final Deadline) – Notice by June 25
Please do not email requesting status updates before your submission notice date. If you have not been
Charlotte PRIDE Events, Festival, and Parade are Happening In Person This Month
It&#;s hour to celebrate PRIDE in Charlotte!
After two years of a pandemic hiatus, Charlotte’s largest street festival and parade returns to Uptown with the Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade on Aug. ,
From their roots 50 years ago, when early gay rights leaders first attempted organizing in Charlotte, to the first Gay Pride Daytime in , to the founding of Charlotte Pride and their first event in — Charlotte Pride will celebrate in-person this year all the ways this community has grown and triumphed. From 2, attendees in to more than , at the last in-person event in , the Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade makes its grand repay to the streets of Uptown Charlotte to celebrate 20 years of Charlotte Pride and more than 40 years of Pride legacy in the Queen City.
Charlotte Pride’s two-day cultural festival includes a variety of national, regional, and local entertainers, musicians, bands, and hundreds of participating vendor booths, including art exhibits, local nonpr
Charlotte Pride draws thousands to uptown
Thousands packed into the streets of uptown Charlotte on Saturday in a burst of rainbows and color for the annual Charlotte Pride festival — the first since the COVID pandemic limited large public gatherings in and
Many festival-goers said they were eager for the annual celebration to return in person after organizers held virtual pride events the last two years.
“After two years, I’m just glad everybody showed up,” said Kevin Brown, who drove from High Point in a rainbow cape and headband to attend Saturday’s festival with family. He said he hoped the festival would break previous attendance records.
Many in the crowd wore their pride foremost — rainbow tutus, crocheted bikinis, pride headbands, beads and stickers.
While the atmosphere was celebratory, the event came at a moment of political uncertainty for LGBTQ rights in the United States. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade and the federal right to privacy, raising fears that the right to same-sex marriage might similarly be in peril.
Transgender rights and g
Here's what to verb at this weekend's Charlotte Pride
More than , people are expected in uptown this weekend for the Charlotte Pride parade and street festival. The local celebration of LGBTQ visibility has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings at UNC Charlotte back in
Liz Schob, a spokesperson for Charlotte Pride, joined WFAE's Nick de la Canal to converse about what attendees can expect from the parade and festival this year.
Nick de la Canal: Let's start off with a really basic question: Why is Charlotte Pride in August when so many cities hold their celebrations in June, and in fact, Pride Month is June in the U.S.?
Liz Schob: Great question, and it's one that we actually get a lot. And there are two answers to that. The first one is Pride is year-round. Pride is days a year. But we do things a little bit differently here in Charlotte. As you mentioned, we have National Pride Month in June. July we have Charlotte Black Pride Month, and in August we include Charlotte Pride. So, we get to celebrate it all summer long, which is really exciting.
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