Black LGBTQ+ Prides
We promote and support the official Black LGBTQA+ Pride Celebrations, simply Black Prides, around the world.
Beginning in 1991, with DC Black Pride, the Black Gay Pride movement began as a way to provide Black LGBTQ+ people an alternative to the largely white mainstream LGBTQ+ movement.
The movement serves as a way for Black LGBTQ+ people to discuss specific issues that are more unique to the Black LGBTQ+ community and celebrate the progress of the Black LGBTQ+ community.
While the mainstream gay pride movement, often perceived as overwhelmingly white, has focused much of its energy on same-sex marriage, the Black Gay Pride movement has focused on issues such as racism, homophobia, and lack of proper health and mental care in black communities.
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Black Pride is the gateway to the greater LGBT community experience for many Black LGBTQ+ people. Rather than encouraging separation, Black Prides encourage awareness of self and community, respect, dignity and many attendees of Black Pride events have returned to their homes to come out to friends, family and their communities. Attending events and seeing people who look like oneself with many of the same shared experiences, contributes to building stronger, healthier LGBT communities and is an effective way to combat homophobia and stigma in the Black community and racism in the greater LGBT community along with overcoming the cultural, communal and institutional barriers created by isms and phobias. All are welcome to attend Black Prides.
Black Prides are planned and managed by the organizations dedicated to: building solidarity; health and wellness; promoting unity; and ensuring the development of education, economic empowerment, and individual and collective work, responsibility and self-determination.
Find a Black Pride Near You
A complete listing of the Pride Celebrations is below map
Official Black Pride Celebrations
Sorted alphabetically by Pride Name. Click Pride Name to visit their website.
Atlanta Black Pride Weekend
Atlanta, Georgia
Austin Black Pride
Austin, Texas
Baltimore Black Pride
Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Black Pride (BHAM Pride)
Birmingham, Alabama
Black & Latin@ Gay Pride
Albany, New York
Black Pride RVA
Richmond, Virginia
Black Pride St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Black Pride Vegas๏ปฟ
Las Vegas, Nevada
BLAQOUT
Kansas City, Missouri
Boston Urban Pride
Boston, Massachusetts
Charleston Black Pride
Charleston, South Carolina
Charlotte Black Pride
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chicago Black Pride (Windy City Black Pride)
Chicago, Illinois
Cincy Black Pride (Cincinnati Black Pride)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cold as Hell
Detroit, Michigan
Dallas Southern Pride
Dallas, Texas
DC Black Pride
Washington, District of Columbia
Fayetteville Black Pride
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Harlem Pride
New York, New York
Historic Selma Black Pride
Selma, Alabama
Hotter Than July
Detroit, Michigan
Houston Splash
Houston, Texas
Indiana Pride of Color
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jackson Black Pride
Jackson, Mississippi
Jacksonville Florida Black Pride
Jacksonville, Florida
Kentucky Black Pride
Lexington, Kentucky
Kingston Pride
Kingston, Jamaica
Los Angeles Black Pride
Los Angeles, California
Little Rock Black Pride
Little Rock, Arkansas
Milwaukee BLAQ Pride
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minnesota People of Color Pride Festival
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Montego Bay Pride
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Nashville Black Pride
Nashville, Tennessee
New Haven Black Pride
New Haven, Connecticut
New Orleans Black Pride Weekend
New Orleans, Louisiana
NYC Black Pride
New York, New York
Pacific Northwest Black Pride
Seattle, Washington
Parada Preta
Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil
Paris Black Pride
Paris, France
Philadelphia Black Pride
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Black Pride Week
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pride in Lagos/GLOW UP PRIDE
Lagos, Nigeria
Pride Month Suriname
Paramaribo, Suriname
Rochester Black Pride
Rochester, New York
San Diego Black Pride
San Diego, California
Soul of Pride
San Francisco, California
South Carolina Black Pride
Columbia, South Carolina
South Florida Afro Pride Parade & Music Festival
Miami, Florida
St. Pete Black Pride
St. Petersburg, Florida
Trans Resistance
Boston, Massachusetts
Tri-State Black Pride
Memphis, Tennessee
West Virginia Black Pride
Charleston, West Virginia
UK Black Pride
London, England
Upstate Black Pride
Greenville, South Carolina
