Atlanta Pride 2026
Atlanta Pride programme
All-levels yoga class at Piedmont Park; participants should bring a mat.
Supportive gathering in Piedmont Park.
Starts inside the Charles Allen and 10th Street gate.
Starts inside the Charles Allen and 10th Street gate.
Starts inside the Charles Allen and 10th Street gate.
The main parade takes place on Sunday.
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About Atlanta Pride
About Atlanta
Atlanta Pride is the city's main Pride weekend. It takes place every October on the second full weekend of the month, close to National Coming Out Day. It is organized by the Atlanta Pride Committee, a nonprofit that describes itself as Georgia's oldest nonprofit organization serving the LGBTQ+ community. The event moved to October because of park scheduling restrictions during a drought.
The festival is held in Piedmont Park in Midtown, and admission is free. Inside the park you will find stages with live music, booths run by community groups and nonprofits, vendors and food stalls. The organizer publishes a Pride Guide with a site map and runs its own mobile app, which helps if you want to plan your route around the grounds.
Saturday is the day of the community marches. Atlanta Pride produces three of them: the Trans March, the Bi/Pan March and the Dyke March, which brings together women, femmes and allies and is explicitly trans-inclusive. Each march leaves from the park, loops through the nearby Midtown streets and returns. On Sunday the Atlanta Pride Parade follows, the largest parade in the city. It traditionally steps off at the Civic Center MARTA station, heads up Peachtree Street into Midtown and finishes a short walk from the entrance to Piedmont Park.
Each year the committee names Grand Marshals to lead the parade, and its website keeps a list of past honorees. The organization also awards community grants to local groups and relies on a large volunteer team for the weekend. Groups that want their own entry in the parade can apply in spring. Much of the organizer's site is also available in Spanish.
Many Midtown bars host their own parties around Pride weekend. The Atlanta Eagle, for example, has a dedicated Pride weekend program and another for Atlanta Leather Pride. The organizer's website also has a Where to Stay page with accommodation tips near the park.
Atlanta Pride – frequently asked questions
The parade starts at the Civic Center MARTA station, runs north across Peachtree Street, turns east onto 10th Street, and ends at the Charles Allen Gate of Piedmont Park, across from Midtown High School.
Travelling by MARTA is highly recommended, as parking spaces around Piedmont Park are scarce during the festival. The Civic Center (at the parade starting point), Midtown (10th Street exit), and Arts Center (a few blocks to the park entrance) stations are all close to the route.
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