all photos: Franz Mahr, Katherine Gaines, Joshua Matthew Peters
Good morning everyone! As you nurse yourself back to semi-health after everything that happened during Pride weekend, lets kick off our full day of festivities recaps with our official launch event:
The BYGays & Capital Pride present Flashback Opening Party!
at Arena stage
The photos are, as expected, gorgeous, but first, a few thank yous are in order:
- THANK YOU to all of you for coming out (in general AND this Friday)
- THANK YOU to Capital Pride for partnering with us on this kick off event for the 6th year in a row
- THANK YOU to Arena Stage for allowing us to turn their pretty new event space into a sweaty gay crazy house
- THANK YOU to our performers: Adore Delano, Frenchie Davis, Adam Kyle (and Jamie Lee Henry, Army’s first transgender officer who joined him on stage), and Mundy
- THANK YOU to our drag acts: Team Peaches, Summer Camp, Birdie LaCage, Pu$$y Noir, Jezzibell Jaxknife + all our go-go AND hooper boys
- THANK YOU to our Decades-of-Pride DJs: Pearl, Ca$$idy, Matt Bailer, LEMZ, and Shea Van Horn
- THANK YOU to our tireless crew: Onomonomedia (photobooth photos are up!), Jackson Pro Audio, No Kings Collective, Metropolitan Security Professionals, DC Night Lights, photographers, volunteers, interns, etc
- THANK YOU to our food vendors at DCCK
- and, of course, THANK YOU to all our sponsors for Capital Pride support: Anestasia Vodka, Heineken Light, Barefooot Wine and also: Red Bull and Rubber Revolution
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