Pride Parade Set for May 4

By Rebecca Lauck Cleary on May 2nd, 2024

This year’s Oxford Pride Parade is set for Saturday, May 4 after a week-long celebration. Southern Studies will participate in the parade at 2 p.m. (check out the banner designed by M.F.A student Neen Talbott) followed by Pride on the Plaza in front of the Union from 3 to 5 p.m. with a “pride guide,” which lists projects, classes, etc., that explore LGBTQ+ themes created by faculty, staff, or students in the last five years.

Documentary Projects:

Good Love is Black: A Podcast on Black Queer Living in the American South

Danielle Buckingham, MA, MFA

The Hollidays in Mississippi, MFA thesis film & photography

Christina Huff, MA and MFA

The Southern Front: Gay Liberation Activists In The U.S. South And Public History Through Audiovisual Exhibition

Hooper Schultz, MA, MFA

Dear Hubert Creekmore: An Archival Search into the Life of a Queer Mississippi Writer

Mary Knight, MA, MFA

Queering Oxford: The Long Path to Pride

Julia Kraus, MA

Queer Mississippi Oral History Project