While Pride Fest in South Carolina’s capital takes place in October, Outfest Columbia gets in on the Pride month action with a bevy of musical performances, vendors, and activities, all across the street from the downtown state house at The Vista. After all, this is a city that celebrates two different Pride festivals throughout the year, and proudly waves pink-and-blue transgender flags from the state house steps on Transgender Day of Visibility. The deep South isn’t exactly known for its open-minded politics or its drag queen-starring Pride performances, but Columbia is quickly emerging as a haven for LGBTQ culture and connection. It’s one of the more unique Pride events in the country, which includes atypical Pride programming like cooking classes, comedy nights, drag bingo and Progressive Worship Services.īe there when 'RuPaul’s Drag Race'-inspired fun comes to Columbia, South Carolina Especially considering its broad slate of events, from a pet parade and the Fun Run to community yoga and the Pride Parade, it’s an apt opportunity to spread the love. It’s a major shakeup from year’s past, when all the happenings were held in the East Village, a dispersed shift made in part out of COVID precautions, and to spread the rainbow-hued celebrations beyond a single neighborhood. This year, the non-profit organization has ballooned its typical weekend-long Pride Fest into a month-long spree it’s billing “ 30 Days of Pride,” with more than 30 different events held throughout the city. You enroll one time, and your Pride Pins membership remains active until manually cancelled in your profile.Join a month-long party with over 30 events in Des Moines, IowaĪnother unexpected capital city that goes big for Pride is Des Moines, Iowa, where Capital City Pride conducts LGBTQ events throughout the year, including an impressively hefty lineup for Pride Month in particular. Please contact me with any questions you have about managing your Pride Pins subscription.ĭOES MY MEMBERSHIP RENEW AUTOMATICALLY EVERY MONTH? So, if you move or need to change where your pins are shipped to, you have to cancel your current subscription, and re-enroll with a new subscription on the 16th.
The shipping labels are automatically printed from the address provided during your first Pride Pins checkout, even if you update it in your profile. Changing the shipping address in your profile will NOT update the way the shipping label prints. When you join Pride Pins, you create an account on my website to easily manage/cancel your subscription as you wish. In order to change the shipping address for your pins, you must cancel your current membership, and enroll again on the 16th with your new address. HOW DO I CHANGE THE SHIPPING ADDRESS FOR MY PINS?
Yes! Your pin will be shipped in a plain mailer, with no reference to "gay” or “erotic art”.
The best way to ensure you can join is to be on the Pride Pins Waitlist (fill out the form below), so you get notified via email every time enrollment opens. However, occasionally, one or two spots opens up for a new collector to join the club.Įnrollment always opens on the 16th of the month, and closes when all the spots are filled, or at 11:59PM CST on the 16th (whichever comes first).
Pride Pins is limited to only 100 collectors a month, and tends to stay at full capacity.