Press Releases & Media Statements

Reel Out Charlotte, the Queen City's Annual LGBTQ Film Festival, will celebrate a decade of LGBTQ art and film this year on May 16-20, at Camp North End (1824 Statesville Ave., Charlotte, NC 28206). The 10th annual event features 10 acclaimed films and several special events with film directors, actors and documentary cast members.

Charlotte Pride is estimating an historic attendance for this past weekend's annual festival and parade in Uptown Charlotte, celebrates parade as largest annual parade in City of Charlotte.

Charlotte Pride will hold its annual Interfaith Service on Sunday, August 20, 4 p.m., at Temple Beth El in Shalom Park, 5101 Providence Rd., Charlotte, N.C.

Charlotte Pride, a local non-profit LGBTQ community organization, has chosen a transgender military veteran and the creator of the Transgender Pride Flag, along with a state senator, to be grand marshals of this year's Bank of America Charlotte Pride Parade.

Charlotte Pride, will hold its annual Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade in Uptown Charlotte on Saturday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Aug. 27, featuring headliner Deborah Cox and other local and national entertainers.

Charlotte Pride announced the creation of its new scholarship for LGBTQ students. Online applications are open today.

Charlotte Pride presented its annual Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade on Aug. 20-21, 2016, in Uptown Charlotte and has estimated a total of 130,000 visitors over the course of the weekend event, a nearly 10 percent increase over 2015 attendance.

Celebrating a successful year, organizers are still working to determine a final attendance estimate.

A transgender speaker, educator and advocate who met with Gov. Pat McCrory this year to ask him to repeal HB2 will keynote a special event this evening highlighting the transgender community's response to and perspectives on the anti-LGBTQ legislation.

Charlotte Pride today kicks off its annual celebrations with its Charlotte Pride Week, with special community events Aug. 12-21, 2016.