DC Black Pride

In 1991, Welmore Cook, Theodore Kirkland, Ernest Hopkins and other community activists saw a need to address the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Black LGBTQ+ community in Washington, DC and launched the DC Black Pride (DCBP) over the Memorial Day weekend.

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Little did they know their mission to combat and educate the Black LGBTQ+ community on the spread of HIV/AIDS and promote better care and treatment options for those living with HIV/AIDS, would ignite a movement that would impact millions of Black LGBTQ+ women and men around the world. There has been incredible advances in LGBTQ+ rights in the United States and the world since the first Black Pride in 1991. Despite these human rights advances the need for DC Black Pride – and all Black Prides still exist. Unfortunately, far too many LGBTQ+ people of African descent still feel the pangs of homophobia and transphobia in their daily lives.

DCBP continues to be held annually during Memorial Day Weekend in our nation’s capital. DCBP is the Black Pride that started the Black Pride Movement.

DC Black Pride Impact Reports