14th Annual Savannah Pride Festival

A Pride celebration is for everyone. An opportunity to celebrate who we are, and the joy of our differences. This weekend we will be celebrating the true nature of ourselves, all of us, whoever we are, whatever our heritage, gender, or sexual identity, at the Savannah Pride festival in Forsyth Park. And a celebration it will be! In celebration of years past the atmosphere during the day has been one of joy, the air was filled with music and laughter. This year will be like years past with even more to celebrate regarding achieving equality among us.

Savannah Pride festival is different from others in the nation, because as president of Savannah Pride Mark Hill has said “ We don’t sequester ourselves away. It is a community picnic where we see friends and make some new ones.” There will be plenty going on during the day at this park-wide picnic. Dozens of vendors and lots of local talent. Stop by our tent (Don Callahan Real Estate Group) for a chance to win an iPad mini! We hope to see you there.

Here is the schedule for Saturday: 

11:30 a.m.: Welcome and opening ceremony
Noon: Dylan Michael
12:45 p.m.: Dale Worley Band
1:45 p.m.: Jeremiah Clark
2:30 p.m.: Stephen Neil
3 p.m.: Welcome from Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson
3:15 p.m.: Christy Alan Band
4:15 p.m.: Lindsey Hinkle
5 p.m.: She and She
5:45 p.m.: Dance party
6:15 p.m.: Kristina Foxx and the Club One Cabaret
7:30 p.m.: Roxxxy Andrews
8 p.m.: Cusses
9 p.m.: Closing ceremony 

Did you Know?

• Approximately 70% of people on Facebook in the U.S. are connected to a friend who has expressly identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual on their timeline. #PrideConnectsUs
• The federal government recently provided access to the full range of benefits that are offered to opposite-sex married military couples to same-sex couples.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg came out in support of gay marriage by officiating at marriage of a two close male friends of hers. Ginsburg said equality has always been central to the Constitution, even if society has only applied it to minorities – be they women, blacks or gays – over time.
• The U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor declared Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional on June 26, 2013, “as a deprivation of the equal liberty of persons that is protected by the Fifth Amendment.”