Nashville Pride

Nashville Pride is a non-profit based in Nashville, Tennessee that produces a yearly LGBT Pride Festival. Nashville Pride's mission is to educate and maintain a sense of pride, community, and awareness of, about, and for LGBT people and culture in Middle Tennessee. It is the largest LGBT event based in Tennessee.

History

The first pride parade took place in 1988.[1]

National attention was garnered by the festival in 2010 when headlining entertainer, Vanessa Carlton, came out to the attendees. She began her set by saying "I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman."[2][3]

The 2013 festival was held at Riverfront Park on Saturday, June 15.[4]

The 2015 festival drew an estimated 15,000-20,000 people, making it the largest gathering since the event began.[5] Records continued to be shattered in subsequent years and the 2018 Nashville Pride festival boasted 35,000 attendees over a two-day period, with nearly 8,000 marching in the Equality Walk.[6]

The 2019 festival drew a record crowd of over 75,000 people for two-days of planned events.[7]

See also

References
  1. Leslie, J.: "Celebrating 20 years of Nashville Pride", Out and About Newspaper
  2. "Vanessa Carlton: I'm Bisexual and Proud", Huffington Post
  3. Leslie, J.: "New Nashville Pride Officers to Take Seat November 1st", Out and About Newspaper
  4. http://www.nashvillepride.org/entertainment.html
  5. Staff (June 27, 2015). "Nashville Pride 2015 Draws Jubilant Crowds". Out & About Nashville. Archived from the original on July 5, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
  6. Joseph Brant (July 4, 2018). "Attendance at the Nashville Pride festival exploded 20% over last year". Out & About Nashville. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  7. https://www.wsmv.com/news/nashville-pride-festival-breaks-attendance-record-with-over-attending/article_3918da20-9902-11e9-aa56-53755fa74ebb.html
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