The 2019 festival drew a record crowd of over 75,000 people for two days of planned events. Records continued to be shattered in subsequent years and the 2018 Nashville Pride festival boasted 35,000 attendees over a two-day period, with nearly 8,000 marching in the Equality Walk. National attention was garnered by the festival in 2010 when headlining entertainer, Vanessa Carlton, came out to the attendees she began her set by saying 'I've never said this before, but I am a proud bisexual woman.' The 2015 festival drew an estimated 15,000–20,000 people, making it the largest gathering since the event began. The first Nashville pride parade took place in June 1988 with help from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force about 250 people marched from Fannie Mae Dees Park to Centennial Park.
