For one night, ditch the beach and head downtown for a free Pride community event hosted by Karla Croqueta. The museum's galleries will be open until 9 p.m., but the real party will go down on the picturesque waterfront terrace. If you haven't left the house decked out in rhinestones and glitter by now, you're doing it wrong. That is the best feeling."įrom downtown Miami to South Beach, here are five unmissable Miami Beach Gay Pride events.
"And they're in tears that they can walk around in public without any fear of persecution. and this is the time of the year I can come to be myself,'" he recalls. "A lot of people come up to me and they say, 'Dave, I grew up in a very homophobic family. Everybody is welcome to celebrate who they are, LGBT, straight, ally," says Dave Cook, executive director of Miami Beach Gay Pride. They'll be sweeping glitter off the streets till 2019. Pride's organizers have planned a week jam-packed with events, ranging from live music and parties to pageants, fireworks, parades, and other fun. The highly anticipated celebration will take place Monday, April 2, through Sunday, April 8. Over the course of the festival's existence, it's evolved into a gigantic celebration and has expanded its demographic through events catering to both younger and seasoned crowds.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the fest that now attracts more than 100,000 visitors. You are welcome to share this material from this page, but it may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.The big, bold, and beautiful festival Miami Beach Gay Pride will return to Miami Beach in April for a weeklong celebration for the LGBTQ community, their friends, allies, and supporters. Start your Trip!Ĭopyright BestTrip.TV/Influence Entertainment Group Inc or Rights Holder. No surprise that Celebrity's modern luxury cruise line has been recognized as the LGBTQ+ Friendly Travel Company of the year, as well as 4-years' running as Best Large Ship Cruise Line for LGBTQ+ Passengers, making the cruise line a great option for guests looking for a great new place to celebrate Pride or a memorable LGBTQ+ wedding, or simply to feel welcome and at home on their next cruise to a dream destination.
Its float took home a prize for first place, with over 400 Celebrity employees marching in the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade in 2018.Ĭouples who are guests on Celebrity ships with more to celebrate than Pride Month can also now be legally (not just symbolically) married on board following ground-breaking legislative changes in Malta, where Celebrity ships are flagged. The line held the first legal gay wedding on a major line on the Celebrity Equinox in January, 2018. The ship's captain presided over the historic ceremony, and now, fleet-wide, wedding ceremonies performed by the Captain on board are legal marriages. Celebrity hosts festival events and provides entertainment from the acclaimed Celebrity Productions team. On shore, Celebrity Cruises is a Presenting Sponsor of the Miami Beach Gay Pride celebrations in the cruise line's HQ hometown. The first night of nearly every Celebrity cruise year round is earmarked for a popular LGBTQ+ Welcome Party, open to and enjoyed by all guests fleet-wide. And throughout each cruise, events and social hours foster the community. The ship-board Pride parties commemorating Pride Month are just part of the cruise line's support of the community throughout the calendar year. Olympic Bronze Medalist Adam Rippon (pictured, below, sailing on the Celebrity Summit) and two-time men’s figure skating Olympian Johnny Weir served as ambassadors for 2018's festivities that welcomed all guests on board and made for one of Celebrity's biggest fleet-wide events. Each ship took turns handing off the 'party baton' to the next ship to keep the parties running across hemispheres and time zones, following the clock to finally encompass all the ships in the fleet. In the end, Celebrity's Pride Party at Sea spanned 10,000 miles and 9 ships in different continents and time zones around the world. Now it looks like the cruise line's new tradition of celebrating LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion during international Pride Month and festivities is here to stay.Ģ018's Pride Month celebrations on Celebrity cruise ships kicked off on the Celebrity Constellation in Sicily, and on the Celebrity Reflection in Cartagena, Spain. San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, Berlin… Now you can add another destination to celebrate Pride Month: at Sea.Ĭelebrity Cruises held its first Pride party fleet-wide in 2017, wherever its ships were around the world.