SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK PRIDE 2015

SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK PRIDE – Celebrating 10 years of South Carolina Black Pride. This year’s theme is ‘Primetime 4 Black Pride – 10 years of Standing in our Truth.’ Columbia, SC.

The 2015 South Carolina Black Pride, marks our 10th Pride celebration and offers a wonderful opportunity for your organization or business to target and to market to a growing and vibrant LGBT community, who despite its buying-power, influence and impact upon the larger society, its potential has gone untapped.

SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK PRIDE 2015

Force report, South Carolina is among the top eight Southern states with a metropolitan area where African-American same-sex households rivaled or unequaled the total percentage of same-sex households. The 2010 census reveals the same trends. African-Americans comprised 54% of same-sex households in Sumter, SC in 2000 — 47 miles to the east of Columbia, SC. And overall South Carolina is third in the nation of the number of Black same-sex households headed by women. These Black same-sex households are more likely than their White counterparts to be raising children and almost as likely to be raising children as their Black straight couple counterparts. These families have many unmet needs for goods and services.

A BRIEF HISTORY & 2015 EXPECTED ATTENDANCE

We fully expect our 2015 South Carolina Black Pride will have the best attendance of all of our Prides! This is the 10th Annual Celebration. It first began in 2006 as the “Black/Latino Gay Pride” with guidance from the Carolinas Black Pride Movement and Palmetto Umoja (Columbia, SC). Its Community Expo was held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center and roughly 300 persons attended all official Pride events. For the 2008 Pride, a new local organizing committee was formed with Dr. Todd Shaw as its first chair. This committee became the principal organizer of the Pride.

In 2013, Roughly 700 persons attended official Pride events. But the International Federation of Black Prides (now the Center for Black Equity) calculated that some 4,000 persons attended all events (official and independent parties, picnics, clubs events, etc.) during the Pride weekend. In 2012, we had at least 3,000, which had strong business-multiplier-effect in this sagging economy. According to our survey of Pride attendees and their zip codes, at least 20% of last year’s Pride attendees lived outside of South Carolina and roughly the same percentages of vendors were outside of the Columbia area; 15% were outside the state.

The mission of the South Carolina Black Pride (SCBP), Inc. is to unify and celebrate the diversity, creativity, and beauty of the South Carolina Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) communities and our supporters, in order to empower and promote the human rights of all families and communities.

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