2019 Pride Guide

The 2019 South Carolina Black Pride Guide is your source for all things in the LGBTQ community in South Carolina. You can read the Pride Guide to check out LGBTQ events in your neck of the woods throughout South Carolina.  The 2019 South Carolina Black Pride Guide will also feature articles from local LGBTQ writers and contributors, ads from supportive businesses, news and announcements, spotlights on our sponsors, and so much more. 

South Carolina Black Pride  will print hard copies of the 2019 South Carolina Black Pride  Pride Guide and circulate them during the 14th Annual Cultural Arts & Wellness Festival,  Additionally, the Pride Guide will be published online and on South Carolina Black Pride's social media 2 weeks prior to 2019 Pride Week. Overall, The Pride Guide will reach thousands of people during Pride season. 

​Important Info for Advertisers:

• Deadline for Pride Guide advertisement submissions is Sunday, July 22 by 10PM EST.
• Your advertisement must be in one of the following formats: PDF, PNG, JPG.
• Submissions should be sent to Darius Jones  at darius@southcarolinablackpride.com  By the deadline. Later submissions are not be guaranteed to be in the final Pride Guide. 
• If needs be, SCBP is happy to facilitate designing an advertisement for you, however, in such scenarios, we will add a $50 design charge because of the work our design team would have to do. To design an advertisement, please submit your request prior to paying for ad to Darius Jones at darius@southcarolinablackpride.com
• If you have a community event that is specific to the LGBTQ community, it may be eligible to be published in the Pride Guide for free. Events determined to be eligible will have their events listed on the Pride Events calendar in the Pride Guide, and must provide:
  • Event title
  • Event time and date
  • Location
  • Website for hosting business/organization, if applicable​​​
  • send information to darius@southcarolinablackpride.com

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​Pride Guide Creative Writing Submissions:

We love seeing creative works supplied by local LGBTQ writers and their allies! In order to supply engaging and relevant content for the  Pride Guide, please consult the below steps to craft your submission. We encourage you to get creative within the theme supplied below! We encourage short stories, articles, poems-- if you think you can write something good for the Pride Guide within the below rules, we would welcome your submission. 

1. Deadline for Pride Guide advertisement submissions is Sunday, July 22 by 10PM EST.
2. Theme for submissions:
   • Creative submissions must speak on the 201 theme Unapologetically ... 
3. Creative submission requirements
   • Submissions must not be promoting a product, brand, etc. Submissions may not be overtly political/explicitly supporting a candidate for public office. Profanity and explicitly sexual language is discouraged but not forbidden. Any language that denigrates a class of people based on their gender identity, national origin, ethnicity, religion/religious affiliation, race, or sexual orientation will be summarily disqualified from publication. 
   • Must be submitted online as a word document. 
4. Submissions should be sent to Darius Jones at Darius@southcarolinablackpride.com

Note: SCBP does not guarantee that each submission will be published in the Pride Guide. All submissions will be published and promoted on www.southcarolinablackpride.com.  Submissions will be assessed subjectively, in addition to the objective criteria above in order to balance quality and overall content.