Gay pride new orleans 2024
Below are events for Identity festival weekend and beyond. Also check neworleanspride.org and calendar.gambit.com for more events.
PrideFest
The Phoenix bar hosts its annual Pride celebration featuring performances by Big Freedia, Dusky Waters, and Mike Delacerda and Wild Blues. Festivities are hosted by Eureeka Starfish and Monique Michaels-Alexander and also include Disco Amigos, DJs, the Huge Easy Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and more. At Elysian Fields Avenue and North Rampart Street from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Visit nolapridefest.org for details.
New Orleans Black Pride Group Festival
Saucy Santana performs at the free New Orleans Black Pride Community Festival, featuring BJ SoCole, Motha Nola, Warren and more. At 1-8 p.m. Saturday, June 8, in Louis Armstrong Park. Visit blackpridenola.com for details.
NOLA Pride Parade
The New Orleans Pride March starts near PrideFest on Elysian Fields Avenue and circles through the French Quarter, passes by Recent Orleans Black Pride Collective Festival and ends on Bourbon Street near St. Ann St. at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Visit neworleanspride.org for details.
Longue Vue Family Equality Day
The family-friendly pride
New Orleans Pride 2024 will kick off this weekend, June 7-9. Whether you want to make astonishing memories or party until you can’t remember anything, Pride weekend 2024 has a jam-packed lineup of events to choose from.
As we all know, the LGBTQ community can cast one hell of a party. However, the weekend will also be filled with insightful exhibits and events.
Black Queer Legacy Summit
Friday, June 7 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the New Orleans Marriott Warehouse, 859 Convention Center Blvd.
New Orleans Black Pride has put together a sunlight full of insightful workshops, networking opportunities, exhibits and more to celebrate the Black queer community. But wait, it gets beat. While you take in all the transformative experiences, there will be delicious breakfast and lunch options.
The exhibition hall will be filled with diverse and vibrant talent to instruct, uplift and inspire attendees. To register and secure your seat, visit the Black Pride Nola website.
Disco in the Day Time
Friday, June 7 from 3-6 p.m. at Brennan’s, 417 Royal St.
Brennan’s, a Fresh Orleans restaurant tradition, will be hosting a groovy happy hour for Event weekend. Guests are encouraged to come in
Welcome to Southern Decadence 2024
SDGMs XLVII Vanessa Carr Kennedy, Jeffrey Mayeaux and Paribe Meyer would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for existence Official Sponsors of the 2022 Southern Decadence Parade:
Presenting: Skyy Vodka, NOLA Hotel Group, Blush
Platinum: Hookers Ball, Golden Lantern, Crown Royal, Ambush, Hard Rock Cafe New Orleans
Gold: NOLA Living Reality, X-Crossing, Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop, Bourbon Pub & Parade, Jennifer Solms & Cory Seaton, Allways Lounge & Cabaret, The Obituary, Bourbon Pride, SIPPs, Gulf Coast LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Navy, Courtyard Marriot, Up & Adam, Oz New Orleans, Phoenix, GrandPre’s, Rawhide, Wonderful Friends Bar, Gennifer Flowers Kelsto Club, PowerMark Properties
Silver: Corner Pocket, Judy Peck
Bronze: Coldwell Banker Smith Homes
Pearl: Phantasmagorically-Hip, Jorge Yero, Nina Quinn, Miss Gay Lagniappe America
Southern Decadence to rejoice 52 years of LGBTQ pride in New Orleans
The annual Southern Decadence party began in the 1970s as a miniature, end-of-summer party between friends. But it’s since grown into one of the country’s largest LGBTQ celebrations with a showstopping pride the Sunday before Labor Day.
This year marks the event’s 52nd iteration. Organizers expect tens of thousands of tourists to flock to the many same-sex attracted bars in the French Quarter and nearby neighborhoods beginning Thursday.
More than 250 events are advertised throughout the weekend on gaynola.com, the city’s central calendar for queer-friendly activities. Highlights include a performance by actor Billy Porter at Bourbon Pub, pop-up sway parties at the Delight Theater and The Fillmore and female-focused events Grrlspot and Her Haus.
Three volunteer grand marshals will oversee a large parade through the French Quarter on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. They include local performers Vanessa Carr Kennedy, Jeffrey Mayeaux and Paribe Meyer.
More than 1,800 people are expected to rally in this year’s procession. This year’s theme is “Birds of a Feather.” But attendees will view a wide range of scantily-clad ma
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