From our earliest Pride parade in 1970, on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, our LGBTQIA+ community has made the active choice to "Show Up and Show Out." Our parade, and subsequently our festival, galvanized our community to show up for each other and to show out with acts of protest, activism, education, and celebration. Fifty-three years later, APC remains committed to those same goals and hopes to remind our neighbors to 'Show Up and Show Out' for the fullest spectrum of our LGBTQIA+ community - not just in June or October, but all year long. In a time of increased political turmoil, violent attacks on the Transgender community, specifically our trans brothers and sisters of color, efforts to silence Transgender and gender-expansive youth, and unprecedented threats and legislation aimed at Drag performers and queer safe spaces, we call on Georgia's LGBTQIA+ community to "Show Up and Show Out" like never before.