Contact a sales representative today to request a free sample of any promotional gay pride product. Display the logo of your upcoming event on our promotional rainbow giveaways such as pens, highlighters, slap bracelets, sunglasses and jump ropes. In August 2013, Charlotte Pride hosted its largest and most successful event yet, also hosting the Bank of America Charlotte Pride Parade, the first LGBTQ Pride Parade in Charlotte since 1994.Ĭharlotte Pride’s organizing committee is formed from an all-volunteer committee which presented successful “Pride Charlotte” festivals with The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte from 2006-2012 and other volunteers who worked to present local Pride festivities from 2001 to 2005. We offer an entire line of imprinted rainbow products that are perfect for any gay pride event. In January 2013, longtime volunteers from 2006-2012 reactivated the dormant Charlotte Pride, Inc., in order to more successfully focus on the organization’s core mission. In 2012, the event attracted more than 45,000 people to Uptown Charlotte for a two-day festival just one week before the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The parade is marching through central Stockholm Saturday. Gay Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots, which began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, after police raided the Stonewall Inn bar in New York Citys. Designed by Gilbert Baker The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements in use since the 1970s. First automaker to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Offered same-sex domestic partner benefits for more than a decade, and extended same. It is a joyful and colorful manifestation of love for equal human rights and a demonstration for everybody’s equal right to love and be who they want to be. Rainbow LGBT Pride flag Name LGBT Pride flag Use Symbol of the LGBT community Proportion 2:3 Adopted 1978 Design Six colored striped flag (from top to bottom): red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Similar Pride activities flew under the banner of “Pride Charlotte” from 2006-2012. The Stockholm Pride Parade is the largest Pride parade in all of Scandinavia with around 50 000 participants in the audience. The annual festival is the largest LGBTQ Pride event in the Carolinas and the largest between Atlanta and Washington, D.C.įounded in 2001, Charlotte Pride, Inc., presented the city’s annual Pride events from 2001-2005. Charlotte Pride presents the annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer (LGBTQ) Pride festival and other events in the Queen City.