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Columbus Pride 2009 Ranked #5 on Columbus Underground

Posted by Karla Rothan

The Stonewall Columbus 2009 Pride Festival has been ranked #5 on the Best Events of Columbus List for 2009 by Columbus Underground from their reader survey.

Here are the Top 10 Best Events of 2009, as rated by their readers:

Comfest
Columbus Arts Festival
Independents’ Day
Highball Halloween
Gay Pride Festival
Red White & Boom
Gallery Hop
Jazz & Ribs Festival
Dublin Irish Festival
Parking Lot [...]

Another Year and a Big Celebration

Posted by Karla Rothan

Pride Holiday and March is a huge celebration for our community and Stonewall Columbus is thrilled to be able to present this event for our city. The hundreds of volunteers that it takes to put this event on every year are the real heroes when it comes to Pride. Many of them give up their [...]

Admission to the Festival at Bicentennial Park

Posted by Karla Rothan

For several years now we have had at least 3-5  “tollbooth gates” at Pride. I want to make sure that everyone understands why this is so. When I began volunteering for Stonewall Columbus in 1998, we had about 20,000 people come to our festival and parade. Now in 2008, just ten years later, we are [...]

Two Weeks Until Pride 2008

Posted by Karla Rothan

It is that crazy busy time of year again when Stonewall Columbus produces one of the largest Pride Celebrations in the Midwest with an estimated 110,000 participants. The team led by Pride Coordinator, Jan Richards is hard at work trying to make sure all of the details are solidified before the big day. This year [...]