For a complete list of participating businesses and schedule of stage performances, go to .ĥ th St. with floats, marching bands and appearances by celebrity guests.įort Lauderdale’s first openly gay mayor, Dean Trantalis, and Stonewall eyewitness and transgender activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy will be grand marshals for the parade. are joining in on the fun beginning at 12 noon on parade day! Enjoy music and performances by popular drag performers at hotels, restaurants and bars along the parade route and live entertainment on the parade main stage all afternoon until the sun starts to set and the historic Pride parade steps off at 5:30 p.m. Hotels, restaurants and bars along Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. (SR A1A), Main Stage and Viewing at Las Olas Blvd. Parade Step-Off at 5:30pmįort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Pride Parties & Parade – 12 noon – 7 p.m. Enjoy hot muscle bear go-go dancers, music by legendary Ramrod DJ Herbie James, and more on the Sebastian Beach stage! Get there early and you’ll be in a prime location to watch the very first Pride Fort Lauderdale “Carnaval” parade, too! FREE, $5 donation requested. Party the afternoon away with your host, “My Big Funny Peter,” Peter Bisuito, the world’s first gay muscle bear comedian. The Pride celebrations gets started Saturday on Fort Lauderdale’s traditional gay beach with B3: Bear Beach Bash. Sebastian Beach, Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Celebrity chefs will create new dishes inspired by the 10 gender-bending performers who will entertain on the Ritz-Carlton stage. National radio personality Elvis Duran and fiancé Alex Carr are your hosts for this one-of-a-kind meal.
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Pride Fort Lauderdale is teaming up with the famed South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Crave Fort Lauderdale series for a boozy drag brunch. A complete list of participating businesses will be posted at.
Hang out at your favorite spot or explore them all with friends. Participating restaurants, bars and nightclubs along Wilton Drive will offer live entertainment, drink and food specials and more-all night long. On Friday night, the Pride Fort Lauderdale celebration moves to the “gayborhood,” as the Island City boasts one of the highest percentages of same-sex households in the nation, and is home to hundreds of LGBT-owned businesses.
Be sure to arrive early to meet the designers and peruse sale items at the trunk show and reception. Male, female, transgender and drag models will sashay across the runway in avant garde outfits to a musical score provided by equally outrageous DJ Power Infiniti and recording artist Allan T. Pride Fort Lauderdale opens with a glamorous runway fashion show hosted by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” All-Star Naomi Smalls and fashion guru Carson Kressley (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, “Fashion Police”) and featuring creative garments by talented “Project Runway” alumni designers. Hard Rock Event Center, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood The colorful festival theme, a nod to both the diverse ethnic communities that call Greater Fort Lauderdale home and the timing of Pride during the Mardi Gras/Carnaval season, will be incorporated into nearly a dozen official and sanctioned events, including:ħ p.m. 21 – 24, with an expanded four-day schedule, including the first-ever parade in city history along Fort Lauderdale Beach. The sights and sounds of the Caribbean and Latin America can be found right here in sunny South Florida when Pride Fort Lauderdale celebrates “Carnaval,” Feb.