Over a Dozen KY Communities to Host LGBTQ Pride Events

Most Pride Events in KY History

(Louisville, KY) More of Kentucky will be celebrating LGBTQ Pride this year than ever before. More than a dozen communities across the commonwealth are set to host LGBTQ Pride Festivals and events, beginning this weekend as the Pride Month of June commences, and running through October with the first-ever Bowing Green Pride and Capital Pride in Frankfort.

The Fairness Campaign will have booths at most Pride Festivals across the state and region, and will once again march in the Kentuckiana Pride Parade Friday, June 16 with a volunteer "Human Balloon Float." This year, Fairness Campaign marchers will don all-black balloon backpacks and march under the theme, "Resist. Persist."

Many Kentucky Pride events this year are being held in cities and counties that still don't protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations, including Bowling Green, Georgetown, Madisonville, Muhlenburg County, Owensboro, and Webster County. Eight Kentucky cities have passed local Fairness Ordinances prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination, including Covington, Danville, Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, Midway, Morehead, and the Appalachian town of Vicco.

Webster Pride Picnic
WHEN: Saturday, June 3, Noon-4 p.m. CT
WHERE: Sebree Springs Park
Sebree, Kentucky 42455

Georgetown Fairness Ice Cream Social 
WHEN: Saturday, June 3, 1-3 p.m. ET
WHERE: Royal Spring Park 
104 South Water Street
Georgetown, Kentucky 40324

Woodford County Pride Picnic 
WHEN: Sunday, June 4, 2-5 p.m. ET 
WHERE: Walter Bradley Park 
399 Dudley Street
Midway, Kentucky 40347 

Jeffersonville Pride Festival
WHEN: Saturday, June 10, 4-10 p.m. ET  
WHERE: Warder Park
109 E Court Avenue 
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130 

Northern Kentucky Pride Parade
WHEN: Sunday, June 11, kick off at 1 p.m. ET
WHERE: Kick off at Covington Landing in Roebling Point 
Madison Avenue
Covington, Kentucky 41011

Northern Kentucky PrideFest 
WHEN: Sunday, June 11, 2-5 p.m. ET (directly after NKY Pride Parade) 
WHERE: Goebel Park
Philadelphia Street
Covington, Kentucky 41011

Owensboro Pride Picnic 
WHEN: Sunday, June 11, Noon-7 p.m. CT
WHERE: English Park 
2 Woodford Avenue 
Owensboro, Kentucky 42301

Kentuckiana Pride Parade 
WHEN: Friday, June 16, 7-9 p.m. ET
WHERE: Heads down Main Street, from Floyd to 5th
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

Kentuckiana Pride Festival 
WHEN: Saturday, June 17, Noon-11 p.m. ET
WHERE: The Belvedere
141 North 6th Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

Fort Knox Pride Observance
WHEN: Friday, June 23, 11:30 a.m. ET
WHERE: Saber & Quill
1118 E Chaffee Ave, Fort Knox, Kentucky 40121

Lexington Pride Festival 
WHEN: Saturday, June 24, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. ET
WHERE: 389 Waller Avenue Suite 100
Lexington, Kentucky

Cincinnati Pride Festival 
WHEN: Saturday, June 24, Noon-9 p.m. ET
WHERE: Sawyer Point and Yeatman's Cove
705 East Pete Rose Way
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Muhlenburg Pride Picnic 
WHEN: Sunday, July 16, Noon-4 p.m. CT
WHERE: Paradise Park 
2011 W Everly Brothers Boulevard
Powderly, Kentucky 42367

Madisonville Pride Festival 
WHEN: Saturday, August 12, Noon-10 p.m. CT
WHERE: TBA

Louisville Black LGBT Pride 
WHEN: Sunday, August 20, Noon-11 p.m. ET
WHERE: TBA

Kentucky Black Pride Weekend 
WHEN: Thursday, September 14-Sunday, September 17 
WHERE: Ramada Conference Center
2143 N Broadway
Lexington, Kentucky 40505

Louisville Pride Festival
WHEN: Saturday, September 16, Noon-11 p.m.
WHERE: Bardstown Road
Louisville, Kentucky 40205

Morehead Pride Festival 
WHEN: Saturday, October 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. ET
WHERE: Moonlight Stage 
East First Street 
Morehead, Kentucky 40351 

Georgetown Pride
WHEN: Saturday, October 7, Time TBA
WHERE: TBA

Capital Pride Festival
WHEN: Saturday, October 14, Time TBA
WHERE: Old Capitol Lawn
300 W. Broadway
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Bowling Green Pride Festival
WHEN: Saturday, October 21, Time TBA
WHERE: Circus Square Park
601 State St 
Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101

Founded in 1991, the Fairness Campaign is Kentucky's broad-based community effort dedicated to equal rights for lesbian gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Its primary goal is comprehensive civil rights legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and to dismantle systemic racism.