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Sunday is pretty much the same as Saturday except compressed into fewer hours. So... no. I'd say it's even more crazy especially as the parade ends and the throngs descend into the festival. Right at 3 the parade ends and the main stage will fire back up, as well as the karaoke bar right at Trade street. (Incidentally that's our highest need for volunteers, too.)

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Y'all.   

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SCOTUS has voted that it is illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people.  This is STUNNING news.  NC state law goes out the window.  i am almost speechless.  Never thought I would see this in my life

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Yay!!!  So happy and gay here too! ❤️

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I'll be out at the festival Saturday and Sunday too.  I'm hosting out-of-town friends but would volunteer otherwise.  In my opinion, Charlotte Pride is one of best festivals in Charlotte every year, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a gay man.  It's an amazing celebration of diversity and inclusion in Charlotte (and an overall fun time for attendees), and our Pride has started to rival those of much larger cities.  Over 100,000 people attended over two days last year, and it keeps growing.  A far cry from a few years ago when there was no parade, no big-name entertainment, and no official recognition from our mayor or city council (which now has two openly-LGBT members - and possibly a third if former interim council member Billy Maddalon is elected to an at-large seat), and the festival was confined to private property to keep protesters (now almost non-existent) from harassing attendees.

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I joined Pride in 2012, it's first two-day event and second year in Uptown and joined the committee in 2013 when it disassociated from the community center. We have several folks on the committee that have been with Pride since it's Gateway days, (not sure if anyone goes back to marshall park days). Hearing them talk about how far the festival has come in just a few years usually leads to tear-jerking and hugs.

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115-120,000 is the official estimate. No one on our end has figured out where the Observer came up with the number they published. (We do not ever announce "expected" attendance ahead of time.) So basically it was around15% higher than last year despite a pretty bad rainstorm right in the middle of Saturday evening peak. Also for comparison: in 2012, one week prior to the Democratic National Convention, the same two-day festival drew 45,000. 

http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/news/local/Charlotte-Pride-Releases-Estimated-Attendance-Numbers-322076782.html

 

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I'm still in shock that such a large, successful Pride event happens in Charlotte.

It's a pleasant shock, of course.

So happy that I lived to see it, because when I blew out of here nearly 30 years ago vowing never to return, I would have bet my last dollar that Charlotte would never, ever embrace the gay.

Now look!

I did return and Charlotte has embraced the gay in a very public, out and loud kinda way. :P

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Just wanted to drop a quick message to say that I had no clue it was the gay pride in Charlotte.
Most of what I remember from Charlotte were my trips from 1998, 2004 and 2008, that's all (plus what I read here and there on the forum).

I went with my father to have a walk around downtown on Saturday and, Holy Cow, it's the gay pride!
And, Holy Cow again, it looks huge!
Granted, that was my first gay pride ever, but I always pictured the gay pride in Charlotte as small gathering of some folks, at a park or someplace in town. Well, I was dead wrong, I wouldn't have believed the gay pride would be such a big event in "the Deep South/Red State". And I didn't see many protesters (even if they were hard to notice).
Give yourselves a pat in the back, because that was awesome! :)

My father even commented "wow, between the gay pride and all the local artists...Charlotte looks like an artistic town, in some way. It wasn't like that 40 years ago when my family moved in...Maybe it has an artistic culture, could it be the New York of the South? You know, artistically speaking?". Well, to be fair, I have no clue of how important the artistic scene in Charlotte is (I know you have NoDa, but I've never been there). I guess you clearly can't compete with New Orleans, but maybe you could be closer to Austin (another fun city to be, from what I hear). But when a foreigner arrives to your city and compares it to New York in a good way, well, that certainly means something! :)

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In just a few years, the modern rendition of the Charlotte Pride festival has grown to 150,000 in attendance, and in five years the parade has become the largest in Charlotte. http://charlottepride.org/7213/charlotte-pride-releases-attendance-estimates-for-historic-festival-and-parade/

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https://mynorthwest.com/1027150/thousands-to-pack-seattle-streets-for-annual-pride-parade/

I was in Seattle for their parade and fest in June and my hotel was in the middle of the parade route. The report above says expecting 300,000 for that day. I was disappointed that in my window of  parade watching  their were no dogs in costume. I was promised dogs in costume. In the contract

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2 minutes ago, tarhoosier said:

https://mynorthwest.com/1027150/thousands-to-pack-seattle-streets-for-annual-pride-parade/

I was in Seattle for their parade and fest in June and my hotel was in the middle of the parade route. The report above says expecting 300,000 for that day. I was disappointed that in my window of  parade watching  their were no dogs in costume. I was promised dogs in costume. In the contract

There were a lot of dogs in costumes yesterday.  My favorite was in a  "Gay Service Dog" vest.  My dog was dressed as an overly hot dog and I kept the bottled water guy in business.   LOL.   

I think the 200k numbers they are reporting would be pretty accurate.  I took my daughter and got there around 1:45 and was shocked at how crowded it was (equally shocked that I didn't see one jackass heckler). Even the Jesus Saves guy was super nice and polite.  I was nervous about letting my young  teenage daughter attend without parent supervision but was totally fine (not that I would allow it in the near future) so I tagged along and was impressed with what the city displayed.

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SCOTUS has voted that it is illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people.  This is STUNNING news.  NC state law goes out the window.  i am almost speechless.  Never thought I would see this in my life.  Things are changing at a rapid pace. And it makes me so happy and gay.

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3 hours ago, nashbill said:

SCOTUS has voted that it is illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people.  This is STUNNING news.  NC state law goes out the window.  i am almost speechless.  Never thought I would see this in my life.  Things are changing at a rapid pace. And it makes me so happy and gay.

Yay!!!  So happy and gay here too! ❤️

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The other thing that makes this even more pleasing is Gorsuch (Trump nominee) wrote the majority opinion on this.  I do not follow Trumps tweets, but I am thinking it didn't make him happy.

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changed appointee to nominee
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