Nashville Celebrates Pride 2022

By John Partipilo and Tennessee Lookout staff

Members of Middle Tennessee’s LGBTQ community, friends and supporters gathered Saturday and Sunday in Nashville to celebrate Pride Nashville.

The event came just a day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 law legalizing abortion at the federal level, and has raised concerns the court could overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. Obergefell was the June 2015 ruling that legalized same sex marriage across the country.

But for the weekend, thousands turned out for a parade down Nashville’s Lower Broadway entertainment district and for a two-day festival at Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall.

Click here for a photo gallery from the event.

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