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De la Canal: What about the presence of police officers at Pride? We have our mainstage, we have our VIP area, youth and family. As you mentioned, we have National Pride Month in June. Here’s a list of events for Charlotte Price Festival and parade, including LGBTQ celebration, Drag Pageant and live performances.

It's going to be really fun. This has been a debate in many cities, especially following the Black Lives Matter protests of And that year, Charlotte Pride banned law enforcement groups from marching in the parade. And anyone who is a member of CMPD that wants to march in the parade is welcome to march with the city of Charlotte.

More thanpeople are expected in uptown this weekend for the Charlotte Pride parade and street festival. But we do things a little bit differently here in Charlotte. And there are two answers to that. Pride is days a year. We have over 40 hours of entertainment across five stages.

Putting it in August allows us all enough time to plan and to get everyone in order, because it's just such a big event. What's the status this year? One of them is brand new this year. So, we get to celebrate it all summer long, which is really exciting.

The less exciting but, like, real reason that we do it this way is because frankly, our celebration is so massive and it's such a logistically complex event.

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Charlotte Black Pride will have a stage at the festival for the very first time this year. They have a stage, a community stage which will transform into the parade stage on Sunday. Read more about what Charlotte Pride has going on in August.

So, yeah, you will see some CMPD officers there. The first one is Pride is year-round. Schob: People can expect a lot of exciting things. Charlotte Pride Week, which includes a variety of celebratory Pride events all around the city, hosted by local businesses and organizations, runs Friday, Aug.

8 – Friday, Aug. Pride Journeys is proud to present the LGBTQ Pride Guide, a comprehensive and ongoing list of events celebrating the LGBTQ community. We work very closely with CMPD to make sure everyone is safe.

We have the Charlotte Gaymers Network. We've got all sorts of exciting things planned. Liz Schob: Great question, and it's one that we actually get a lot. De la Canal: So, what can people expect this year, and is there anything new that you're excited about?