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Previous Blount Pride Festival 2025 Pride in Community was held Sept 6, at Springbrook Park, Alcoa TN
Feb 2, 2026, Waiting for the 2026 date for Blount Pride 2026 of Maryville TN to be announced as other Pride organizations release their dates. You will know as soon as I know. Beau Knowles LGBT Knoxville LGBTQ Friendly Business Directory
January 20, 2026, Beau Knowles Knoxville LGBTQ Friendly Business Directory
Blount Pride Festival began in as a small pride festival held at the Bird and the Book Pub in Maryville TN. Previous locations have included private businesses, community parks both in Maryville and Alcoa TN, plus Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville College, Maryville, TN where the Christian Singer and Drag Queen Flamy Grant performed. The event has grown in size to where it needs a bigger space. The 2025 Blount Pride Festival was held at a park in Alcoa TN on Sept 6, 2025 there as a heavy rain for half of the day. I attended and found the vendors in good spirits. I received many hugs from friends and new acquaintances. I say a pride festival is basically a family reunion.
Maryville TN is a small town in East TN with a population of 27,974 according to City-Data website. The town is anchored by two large entities a Liberal Arts College, Maryville College. The college has a Pride Club and is considered a LGBTQ supportive higher learning center and Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, DENSO has a diversity statement on their website, which states "DENSO is working to realize an organizational environment and culture that embraces all individuals, regardless of personal attributes such as age, nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, career history or value systems thereby allowing a diverse groups of employees to work with enthusiasm and energy.
There are other supportive businesses in the town such as the Southland Books & Cafe, The Bird and the Book Pub, The Dungeon Vintage Movie and Music store and St Andrews Episcopal Church which are all listed in the Knoxville LGBTQ Friendly Business Directory.
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Map to location
Waiting for the location for 2026 Blount Pride Festival
Website
Website
Blount Pride Website https://blountpride.org/
Past Blount Pride Festivals
Past Blount Pride Festivals
Rainbow Connections Resources Fair and Drag Event Brought to you by Blount Pride
BLOUNT PRIDE PRESENTS RAINBOW CONNECTIONS -RESOURCES FAIR & DRAG EVENT: Saturday September 7 2024 11 am to 3pm SkyView at Broadway Social, 101 E. Broadway Ave, Maryville TN. SkyView at Broadway Social is a new event center in near the center of Maryville TN. The venues website says, "
From Blount Pride "Blount Pride brings you Rainbow Connections: A Community Resources Fair & Drag Event, 11a-3p Saturday, Sept. 7, at SkyView at Broadway Social. This all-ages event will connect the LGBTQ+ community with affirming resources, nonprofits and organizations in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. We're featuring: Youth activities & Rainbow Storytime, Free tabling for affirming community organizations, Drag performances, Live music, Blount Pride merch plus pick up of 2024 T-shirt pre-orders, This event is absolutely free!"
Parking, directions from the Skyview Website Q&A "SkyView at Broadway Social utilizes the free parking garages offered by the City of Maryville in the downtown area. For entry at the E Broadway Avenue entrance, we advise you use the Broadway Municipal Parking Garage (located on the corner of W Broadway Ave and S Cusick St., with entrances on Broadway Ave and Church St.) or Founder's Lot. For our accessible entrance on E Harper Avenue.
Update April 23, 2024, Blount Pride Fest 2024 As of April the event had not been announced. This Festival is normally held in the Fall in Blount County Tennessee. The 2023 event was a private event with monitored entry, photo id checks and wrist bands admittance. these were efforts to make the space safe for attendees. (I enjoyed the event and thought the volunteers did a wonderful job making it welcome but unincumbered by protesters.)
"There's Pride in Them/Their Hills"
"There's Pride in Them/Their Hills"
Blount County Pride Festival 2023
Blount County Pride Festival 2023
August 1 2023 Adding the Flyer for the Beau Knowles Knox LGBT Businesses
Saturday, September 2, 2023, 1pm to 8pm, Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville TN
Blount Pride 2023 - "There's Pride in Them/Their Hills" Blount County's annual LGBTQIA+ Pride Festival is set for 1-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at Clayton Center for the Arts, and we hope all y'all will come sit a spell and enjoy everything our Pride fest has to offer. Live entertainment! Vendors! Food Trucks! Kids Activities! A huge Community Resources Fair! More announcements coming, plus a website for all the info in one spot. Watch this space for announcements!
Clayton Center for the Arts, 502 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville, TN
Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/589554033253121
or email them at blountpride865@gmail.com
Vendors, Community Resourse Fair
Vendors, Community Resourse Fair
Food Trucks, Kids Activities
Food Trucks, Kids Activities
Blount Pride Youtube video
Blount Pride Youtube video
Youtube Video WBIR Channel 10 'We are welcoming' | Blount Pride festival to welcome hundreds of people Saturday https://youtu.be/a3ZkNROMNmQ?si=fSZr6WPTfPWVZPvO&t=27
Blount Pride linktree website
Blount Pride linktree website
Donation Website
Donation Website
Website to donate is on Appalachian Community Fund Page,
Click "How Much Would You Like to Donate Today?" Then one time, monthly, quarterly or Annual
Click payment type. Then because Appalachian Community Fund is taking donations for Blount Pride in the next section "If you have a special purpose for your donation, please let us know." Select BLOUNT PRIDE
Then you can include whom you want donation dedicated too, (optional) https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/AppalachianCommunityFund
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