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Nashville Pride

Women’s sports bars are on the rise. Nashville’s will be a first for the South.

Marianna Bacallao

July 2, 2024

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Nashville’s Chapstick is poised to become the first in the South to join a growing trend of sports bars dedicated to women’s leagues.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Aftyn Behn, bars, Freddie O'Connell, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Pride, The Lipstick Lounge

Nashville announces first permanent rainbow crosswalk

Marianna Bacallao

June 18, 2024

The new addition will cover the East Nashville intersection home to the Lipstick Lounge, the city’s only lesbian bar.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: bars, Emily Benedict, lgbt, lgbtq, Lipstick Lounge, Nashville Metro Council, Nashville Pride, The Lipstick Lounge

WPLN’s 2024 Pride Guide: 50+ LGBTQ events in Middle Tennessee this June

Rachel Iacovone

June 5, 2024

Pride Month is just ramping up, but with more than 50 events in Middle Tennessee this year, there are more gatherings than days in June. WPLN News has compiled a “Pride Guide” for events in the region.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, Nashville Pride, Pride

First Lady Jill Biden drops by Pride festival to show support for LGBTQ community

LaTonya TurnerandBlaise Gainey

June 25, 2023

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Nashville Pride festivities kicked off Saturday with dozens of musical acts, vendors, food trucks and one special guest: First Lady Jill Biden.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Jill Biden, lgbtq, Nashville Pride, Pride2023

WPLN’s 2023 Pride Guide: Dozens of LGBTQ events are planned in Middle Tennessee this month

Rachel Iacovone

June 2, 2023

Pride Month has just begun, but this first weekend alone there are three cities’ Pride festivals — in Franklin, Cookeville and Columbia — and several other events around the region.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, Nashville Pride, Pride

A judge will soon decide whether Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind drag restrictions will go into effect. Here’s how that decision has shaped Pride this year.

Marianna Bacallao

May 31, 2023

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Tennessee passed a first-of-its-kind law restricting drag in public places earlier this year. But that law has never been enforced. A judge temporarily blocked it the night before it was set to go into effect. Now, a ruling in the case against Tennessee’s law is expected soon, just as Pride month is coming up.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: anti-lgbt legislaton, drag, drag show, lgbt, lgbtq, Memphis Pride, Nashville Pride, Pride

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