Atlanta Pride has released its 2025 Impact Report, documenting the growth and investments made during the organization’s 55th year.
2025 Atlanta Pride continued to be the largest free Pride festival in the U.S. with over 350,000 attendees and the largest parade in Atlanta with more than 100,000 spectators. The weekend culminated in the Starlight Cabaret, the largest outdoor drag event in the country, and the festival hosted the largest Family Fun Zone and Artist Market to date.
“Our 2025 Atlanta Pride festival and parade reaffirmed that choosing Pride is not a neutral act,” Atlanta Pride Executive Director Chris McCain said. “Choosing Pride is a declaration that we will not be erased, a commitment to not retreat, and a promise to move forward – together.”
The organization also saw an increase in financial support, despite a nationwide decline in corporate Pride sponsorships. Atlanta Pride welcomed 10 new sponsors and more than doubled its total number of individual donors through the launch of the 70 CLUB, the organization’s monthly donor community.
The report also highlighted the other year-round events the organization hosted in 2025, including the United States Association of Pride National Conference, a Halfway to Pride fundraiser, and the Reel Resistance summit.
Atlanta Pride’s impact expanded beyond the city. Through its Pride Across the Peach State initiative, the organization has awarded $90,000 in grants. Ten organizations across Georgia received support from Atlanta Pride in 2025.
“For 55 years, Atlanta Pride has existed because our community refuses to be erased,” McCain said. “At a time when LGBTQ+ people, especially trans and gender-expansive communities, are facing renewed political attacks, our 2025 Impact Report makes clear that visibility, community investment, and joy are powerful acts of resistance.”
McCain told Rough Draft that, as the organization contemplates the work done in 2026, he is feeling both concerned about attacks on LGBTQ+ rights throughout Georgia and hopeful for Atlanta Pride’s impact.
“As we begin this new year, I feel both great hope and deep concern,” he said. “I am hopeful as Atlanta Pride looks to the incredible Pride efforts we are supporting in metro Atlanta and across Georgia through our philanthropic partnerships, and as we continue to grow our reach and impact statewide. At the same time, I am concerned as we monitor the increasing attacks our community is facing across the country. That reality makes our work more urgent than ever. Fortunately, we know our community is strongest when we support and stand up for one another — when we choose Pride.”
Read the full 2025 Atlanta Pride Impact Report here.
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