Community Pride will not be for police or corporate organizations. We are committed to Community Pride being inclusive and safe for everyone.
#COLUMBUS GAY PRIDE 2021 FREE#
Community Pride will culminate in the Columbus Community Pride Festival on Saturday, October 9th which will include performance and visual artists, arts & crafts, a community resource fair, workshops, vendors, free water and a specific child care area! We are raising money so that every Community Pride event, including the Festival, will be FREE to attend. With celebratory and educational events ranging from documentary showings with fabulous panelists to Queer Skate Night to sexual health workships, we hope to highlight the vibrant lives of QTIPOC and communities at other intersections of oppression.
We will have safe in person events and virtual events in June and the actual in person festival on October 9th, 2021. So, Community Pride 2021 FTP is here!!!Ĭolumbus Community Pride 2021: FTP will take place in June 2021 and October 2021. For listed reasons above and many many more, we believe our community deserves a space free of police, state violence, and rainbow capitalism. Stonewall rotates Black face after Black face within their Executive Director role only to gaslight and negotiate harm for the Black Pride 4 and QTIPOC, especially within community conversations and failed accountability processes. Years later, in 2021 after all we’ve been through, things have not changed much. They have become known as the #BlackPride4.ĭespite hosting the parade at which this altercation occurred and claiming to be an advocacy organization “for all” LGBTQIA+ people in Central Ohio, Stonewall Columbus not only failed to aid the #BlackPride4 after their arrest, they refused communication with them and their supporters, resisted public calls for change and resignations, and, finally, testified for the prosecution in the #BlackPride4 trials of Wriply, Kendall, and Ashley. During this altercation, four folks––All Black and mostly Black trans and queer individuals––were arrested. Within one minute of leaving the curb, the group was accosted by aggressive CPD officers, who assaulted them with bikes, pepper spray, and sheer force. Story Donate to Community Pride 2021 so we can provide an entirely FREE alternative Pride festival!įall festival at Mayme Moore Park Saturday, October 9th, with events all June long for Pride month!Īt Stonewall Columbus’ 2017 Pride parade, several community members stepped out into the street with the intent of bringing public attention to the lack of safe spaces for Black and brown LGBTQIA+ folks within the larger LGBTQIA+ community.