San Diego Pride announces new additions to festival line-up
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The annual San Diego Pride festival is only a few months away and this year’s line-up of performers is coming together.
On Friday, San Diego Pride announced new additions to the already exciting slate of LGBTQ+ musicians and drag performers set to take to the main stage this year, including the recent RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Nymphia Wind, and singer-songwriter Slayyyter.
The other performers added to the line-up for the two-day event are J. Worra, Tommy Genesis and Kaleena Zanders, as well as the drag queens of the For The Girls tour: Lady Camden, Bosco and Daya Betty.
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They will join this year’s headliners: singer and YouTube personality Todrick Hall, rapper Rico Nasty, and the iconic drummer Sheila E.
“San Diego Pride believes LGBTQIA+ artists have always been invaluable torchbearers for the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movements providing life-saving representation of LGBTQIA+ experiences that are still not widely found in public media,” organizers wrote in a Friday news release.
“Highlighting the expression of a diverse array of LGBTQIA+ artists is essential to voicing the myriad of challenges facing our community members.”
The two-day event is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 at Balboa Park’s Marston Point.
General admission tickets are available starting at $38. VIP admission is also available for $219. All proceeds go towards the San Diego Pride’s year-round programs and events.
The San Diego Pride Festival has been a staple of the region’s Pride celebrations for decades, hosting over 35,000 visitors each year. The event occurs in conjunction with the San Diego Pride Parade, which is considered the largest annual, single-day single event in the region.
This year will mark the parade’s 50th anniversary, evolving over the decades to the existing festivities from the original unpermitted marches of the 1970s.
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