Pride Charlotte got a shout out and a thank you in The Charlotte Observer‘s letters to the editor on Wednesday. Just as they say they appreciated our efforts to curb our noise during their family funeral, we are just as appreciative of the time they took to say a public thank you.

Thanks to Pride participants for respecting family funeral
The Evans family and St. Peter Catholic Church community would like to express their gratitude for the responsiveness of the Pride Charlotte community, who so promptly and respectfully accommodated the mid-afternoon funeral of Roger Evans on the same day as their downtown festival. Both the music and street noise were curbed during the service and this thoughtful action was sincerely appreciated.
Barbara Evans, Charlotte

Ms. Evans, thank you for your time in writing this letter. The Pride Charlotte organizing committee and the board of The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte are sorry for your family’s loss and happy that we could help in accommodating your family’s needs given the circumstances of our festival’s location on S. Tryon St. and its proximity to the church.

Two other letters to the editor in response to last week’s Pride Charlotte Festival were also printed. Check them out online at charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/31/2566138/the-observer-forum.html.

The Charlotte Observer published a phenomenal write-up on our wonderfully successful, record-setting Pride Charlotte yesterday. The news report, by writer Meghan Cooke, appears online and in the paper’s print edition today. Read a bit below and then hop over to charlotteobserver.com to read the rest.

The Duke Energy Building in Uptown Charlotte lit up in commemoration of Pride Charlotte on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Pride Festival, out in the open
Fest celebrates LGBT progress, acceptance.

By Meghan Cooke, macooke@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011

Rainbow colors beaming from the Duke Energy Center in Charlotte’s uptown lit up the sky Saturday night, marking the end of a festival celebrating the local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The event shut down several blocks of South Tryon Street as thousands flocked to the Pride Festival, put on by Pride Charlotte, a group that works to empower the area’s LGBT community.

The festival is the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte’s largest fundraiser. It’s the culmination of Pride Week, which included an interfaith worship service, an art exhibit and film screening.

Thousands of people – a record number – attended Saturday’s festival, organizers said.

Read the rest at charlotteobserver.com…

Boy, oh, boy! What is happening? An impending hurricane and an earthquake? Oh, no worries here.

The latest projections for Hurricane Irene shows little-to-no chance of seriously affecting the Charlotte area. In fact, it’s projection has increasingly been shifted eastward hour by hour for the past two days. So, we expect to see each of your bright and smiling faces at Pride Charlotte on Saturday, Aug. 27, in Uptown Charlotte!

Be sure to check out our full calendar of events for Pride Charlotte Week and all the deets for the Pride Charlotte Festival.

Pride Charlotte Week is on and the count down to the annual Pride Charlotte Festival on Aug. 27 keeps ticking.

As a part of our festivities this year, we’ve partnered with the Mint Museum Uptown and Bechtler Museum of Modern Art to offer you a very special promotion. Through PrideCharlotte.com, you can download a special 2-for-1 admission coupon.

Click here to download our 2-for-1 Mint and Bechtler coupon

The special admission promotion is good Aug. 19-27 and can only be redeemed in person with the presentation of this coupon.