The official Central Arkansas GLBT Pride event!

The board of Little Rock Capital Pride is officially announcing that we will not be producing a Pride event in 2008. Unfortunately, we were unable to get a quorum of members (7) to serve on our board. It was felt that three board members, who all serve in leadership roles in other GLBT groups, would be unable to perform all of the tasks required to plan the event. After the tremendous success of Capital Pride ‘07, we were quite surprised that more individuals did not join us so that we could build on our successes. It is our hope that the absence of a Pride event will spur the local community into action. We are planning a picnic/barbeque in June so that we can discuss future plans and recruit volunteers for next year. In July, we will hold elections for next year’s board and I encourage anyone who is interested to send an e-mail to joe@lrcpride.org to express your willingness to serve. We are optimistic that Pride will return to Little Rock and look forward to the community’s support.

Yours in Pride,
Joe LaFountaine, President
Little Rock Capital Pride

Little Rock Capital Pride will be holding our annual meeting and board elections on Saturday, September 8th at 3pm at the Central Arkansas Library Main Branch located at 100 Rock Street. We will meet in the Friborough room on the second floor.

ALL members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend. This is YOUR opportunity to provide feedback and help shape Pride in our city!

Little Rock Capital Pride is looking for people that are interested in serving on our Board of Directors. If you, or someone you know, could be interested, please contact Joe via e-mail. We will soon be announcing the date, time and location of our annual meeting when elections will be held.

This year’s pride was the biggest Little Rock has ever seen! Despite some flashes of rain, we had an amazing celebration, with over 1,500 attendees, including many, many “walk-in” families from President Clinton Avenue.

The Little Rock Capital Pride organization couldn’t be more excited about the progress that has been made in this past year with both our organization, and GLBT causes across our state. We hope that LRCP serves as a meeting ground for the GLBT community and creates new networks that will help facilitate future progress.

Please feel free to take a look at the “Archive: ‘07 Pride” page for information about the most recent Pride Celebration. We’ve also made other changes to the website to move all information that is already outdated to the archive. As more information becomes available about Pride ‘08, we will update the site to reflect upcoming events.

We’d like to make special note of the video that was compiled at Pride ‘07, which includes highlight from throughout the day. Take a look at the “Pride ‘07 Pictures & Video” page to view those videos. (It’s about 35 minutes long in total.)

If you’d like to share your pictures from Pride ‘07, please join our Little Rock Capital Pride Yahoo! Group and upload your pictures into the photo archive. Within a few weeks, we will compile the pictures together and post them as an album on this site.

Finally, even if you don’t have pictures, please be sure to join the LRCP Yahoo! Group to keep informed of upcoming events and about planning for our next Pride Festival.

Event Information

• Date: Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
• Time: 2pm - 9pm
• Location: River Market Pavilions
• Parking: Multiple free and paid locations are located around the River Market area. To see a full map of available parking, use this file.

Schedule
Please be aware that interested parties will have the opportunity to sign up for stage-time at the festival. (Check your booth map insert, available at the festival, for the booth location at which stage-time sign-up will be available.) This schedule only encompasses the acts which have already been confirmed.

• 2:00 - Festival kick-off and welcome
• 2:15 - Sally Miller
• 3:15 - Pride Idol competition
• 4:00 - Brenda Lyons
• 5:00 - Eric Himan
• 6:45 - The Mob Kings
• 7:00 - Drag Idol Finalists
• 9:00 - Festival ends

Booths
Booth registration is now closed. We have a full house! Below are the booths that are already confirmed for the event.

• Food: Nucci’s Concession
• Food: Heslep Tropical Sno
• RileyArtworks
• Stonewall Democratic Caucus
• HIV Survivors Past & Present display
• Twisted Gift Shop
• Arkansas Times
• Green Party of Arkansas
• Center for Artistic Revolution (CAR)
• OutLoud Gear
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Victory Fund
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
• ACLU of Arkansas
• Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services
• New Beginnings Church
• Edgewater Imaging, LLC
• Sidetracks North Little Rock
• LittleRockPride.com
• NWA GLBT Community Center
• Human Rights Campaign
• Sally Miller
• The Mob Kings
• DJ Moon God
• Graphics Unique Design & Printing Co., Inc.
• National Organization for Women
• First Freedom First
• Humane Society of Pulaski County
• Central Arkansas Freethought/Atheists
• Mid-South Pride
• Arkansas AIDS Foundation
• Diversity Pride
• Starving Artist Cafe
• PFLAG of Little Rock
• Literary/Cinema Pride
• Diamond State Rodeo Association
• National Association of Social Workers
• Reel Attractions- AR LGBTQ Film Festival
• Haley Computer Consulting & Repair
• Open Door Community Church
• Just Communities of Central Arkansas
• Alltel

We look forward to seeing everyone at the event!

As part of a feature article on pride celebrations, Little Rock Capital Pride was mentioned — including our festival date and website URL! Check it out!

The board has some updates we’d like to make our membership aware of:

First and foremost, please make note of our new promotional booth rates, which are in effect until May 30th!!

• Not-for-profit (no sales)
• Before May 30, 2007: $5
• After May 30, 2007: $30
• Non-profit (with sales)
• Before May 30, 2007: $10
• After May 30, 2007: $60
• For profit (vendor sales)
• Before May 30, 2007: $15 + 5% of profit
• After May 30, 2007: $85 + 5% of profit
• Food sales
• Before May 30, 2007: $15 + 5% of profit
• After May 30, 2007: $85 + 5% of profit

If you’re ready to be a part of our festival at these great new rates, please read our booth guide, and submit your application!

Also on the subject of booths, you can see who has already confirmed their spot for the festival on our “Pride ‘07” page (near the bottom).

Second, and also very important: WE NEED PERFORMERS FOR PRIDE IDOL!! If you are a GLBT musical act, or know a GLBT musical act, please contact Joe to set up your FREE performance slot at the event. (You only pay the door cover!) If we don’t get some musical acts soon, there won’t be a Pride Idol to hold!

Third, unfortunately we had to cancel our theater night event due to low ticket sales.

Fourth, we now have a complete list of all the publicity materials available for our events, found here. Included on that page are web, and print-quality graphics for each of our upcoming events, as well as for our logos.

Fifth, we’d like to thank everyone who helped to make Drag Idol such a huge success, raising over $1000 for our organization! Special thanks also goes to Backstreet for hosting the event.

Also, don’t forget that we also have the 50/50 contest, which is growing in size at every event!

And finally, we’d like to make note of all our sponsors. Please head to the Pride Supporters to see who’s been added recently!