Faith Evans Headlines ATL Black Gay Pride 3rd Annual Pure Heat Community Festival; 'RHOA' Rookie, Claudia Jordan Joins 'Atlanta Exes' Star Tameka Raymond, And 'Braxton Family Values,' Towanda Braxton

 Atlanta Black Gay Pride, the country's leading LGBTQ annual pride completed their annual weekend celebration with the 3rd Annual Pure Heat Community Festival, in Atlanta, GA over the weekend.

The festival held by, The Vision Community Foundation featured a special award presentation to Grammy Award winning songstress, Faith Evans.  A host of celebrities including, Tameka Raymond (VH1 Atlanta Exes); Claudia Jordan & Gary Hayes (Rickey Smiley Morning Show); Towanda Braxton (WeTV Braxton Family Values) and Chyna (WeTV LA Hair) were all out and enjoying the crowd, as they showed their support to the LGBTQ community.

Bishop Oliver Clyde Allen (The Vision Church of Atlanta) and Rashad Burgess presented Faith Evans with the 2014 Humanitarian Award. New singing sensation Havok Jones serenaded Faith Evans with a cover her classic, "Soon As I Get Home".

 Additional activities included: female impersonator CiCi; Greek Stroll Competition; Hair Battles and the crowd favorite, J-Sette Competition. The Pure Heat Community Festival also brought awareness to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and which advocated campaigns towards human rights, education, health & wellness, and homelessness.

"Atlanta Black Pride is a dynamic opportunity to showcase the diversity and uniqueness of the LGBT community," says president of RockStars Production Julius James.   

Atlanta, Georgia has the largest and most diverse African-American Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) populations in the United States. The 16-year old Black Pride celebration has been ranked as the most attended Black pride event in the country and generates more than $1 million in revenue for metro Atlanta.