Celebrate Atlanta Black Pride with events, parties, and entertainment

Since the 1980s, Black queer Atlantans have gathered during Labor Day Weekend to celebrate their own Pride. What started as pop-up picnics hosted at alternative spaces to the white-dominated Pride celebrations has since grown into a blowout weekend attracting Black LGBTQ+ people from around the world.

Last year, Atlanta served as the host city for Global Black Pride, and this year, while the global celebration travels to Paris, Atlanta Black Pride will build on the momentum of last year’s success with new events and returning favorites from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1.

“As we stand looking at the scope of what legislation is doing to us, Atlanta Black Pride has always been an opportunity to reflect on queer existence from the Black and African-American perspective, because it’s really different,”