New orleans gay pride parade 2024
Southern Decadence to celebrate 52 years of LGBTQ identity in New Orleans
The annual Southern Decadence party began in the 1970s as a minor, end-of-summer party between friends. But it’s since grown into one of the country’s largest LGBTQ celebrations with a showstopping parade the Sunday before Labor Day.
This year marks the event’s 52nd iteration. Organizers look forward to tens of thousands of tourists to flock to the many gay bars in the French Quarter and nearby neighborhoods beginning Thursday.
More than 250 events are advertised throughout the weekend on gaynola.com, the city’s central calendar for queer-friendly activities. Highlights include a production by actor Billy Porter at Bourbon Pub, pop-up sway parties at the Joy Theater and The Fillmore and female-focused events Grrlspot and Her Haus.
Three volunteer grand marshals will oversee a large parade through the French Quarter on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. They include local performers Vanessa Carr Kennedy, Jeffrey Mayeaux and Paribe Meyer.
More than 1,800 people are expected to march in this year’s procession. This year’s theme is “Birds of a Feather.” But attendees will see a wide range of scantily-clad ma
Below are events for Pride weekend and beyond. Also test neworleanspride.org and calendar.gambit.com for more events.
PrideFest
The Phoenix bar hosts its annual Identity festival celebration featuring performances by Big Freedia, Dusky Waters, and Mike Delacerda and Wild Blues. Festivities are hosted by Eureeka Starfish and Monique Michaels-Alexander and also include Disco Amigos, DJs, the Big Easy Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and more. At Elysian Fields Way and North Rampart Street from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Visit nolapridefest.org for details.
New Orleans Black Pride Collective Festival
Saucy Santana performs at the free New Orleans Shadowy Pride Community Festival, featuring BJ SoCole, Motha Nola, Warren and more. At 1-8 p.m. Saturday, June 8, in Louis Armstrong Park. Visit blackpridenola.com for details.
NOLA Pride Parade
The New Orleans Celebration Parade starts close PrideFest on Elysian Fields Avenue and circles through the French Quarter, passes by New Orleans Black Pride Group Festival and ends on Bourbon Highway near St. Ann St. at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Visit neworleanspride.org for details.
Longue Vue Family Equality Day
The family-friendly pride
Expect glitter, outrageous costumes, rainbow flags and an outpouring of support for the LGBTQ+ community as the 2025 Pride parade rolls through the French Quarter on Saturday, June 14.
Featuring 17 floats, dance troupes and thousands of marchers, the procession commemorates the June 1969 Stonewall riots in New York Municipality, the flashpoint of the modern gay rights movement.
According to a map on the New Orleans Event website, the parade will follow a different way than in past years.
The procession is expected to set out at 5 p.m. from the corner of North Rampart and Toulouse streets. It follows North Rampart to Esplanade Avenue, where it turns right, then right again on Decatur Street, right on St. Louis Lane, right on Burgundy Highway, right on St. Ann Street and left on Bourbon Street, disbanding by 8 p.m. near the corner of Dumaine Street.
The new route may construct it more convenient to attend two other major events that take place on June 14.
Near the start of the parade, the New Orleans Community Festival, presented by the New Orleans Black Pride organization, takes place in Armstrong Park. The free, family-friendly fest includes live music, diet an
Welcome to Southern Decadence 2024
SDGMs XLVII Vanessa Carr Kennedy, Jeffrey Mayeaux and Paribe Meyer would favor to thank the following businesses and individuals for being Official Sponsors of the 2022 Southern Decadence Parade:
Presenting: Skyy Vodka, NOLA Hotel Group, Blush
Platinum: Hookers Ball, Golden Lantern, Crown Royal, Ambush, Hard Rock Cafe New Orleans
Gold: NOLA Living Reality, X-Crossing, Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop, Bourbon Pub & Parade, Jennifer Solms & Cory Seaton, Allways Lounge & Cabaret, The Obituary, Bourbon Lgbtq+ fest, SIPPs, Gulf Coast LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Navy, Courtyard Marriot, Up & Adam, Oz New Orleans, Phoenix, GrandPre’s, Rawhide, Good Friends Bar, Gennifer Flowers Kelsto Club, PowerMark Properties
Silver: Corner Pocket, Judy Peck
Bronze: Coldwell Banker Smith Homes
Pearl: Phantasmagorically-Hip, Jorge Yero, Nina Quinn, Miss Gay Lagniappe America