all photos: Franz Mahr, Jeff Martin, Dakota Fine & Katherine Gaines
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 BLAST OFF!
at DOCK 5 at Union Market
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 5th year in a row
- THANK YOU to Union Market & Edens for allowing us to turn their pretty new event space into a sweaty gay crazy house
- THANK YOU to our performers: Big Freedia, DDm, Willam, & Epic Win Burlesque
- THANK YOU to our drag acts: Heidi Glum, Pu$$y Noir, Team Peaches, Jezzibell Jaxknife + all our go-go boys
- THANK YOU to our DJs: DJ Joe G & CTRL
- THANK YOU to our tireless crew: Jackson Pro Audio, Metropolitan Security Professionals, DC Night Lights, Robin Bell Visuals, our bar staff, volunteers, interns, etc
- THANK YOU to our food vendors: Toki Underground, The Lemongrass Truck, The Cajunators, Rito Loco
- and, of course, THANK YOU to all our sponsors for ongoing Capital Pride support: ABSOLUT, BUD LIGHT and also:Â KIND snacks, Red Bull
BONUS: Stay forever in the loop and follow us on FACEBOOK and TWITTER.And we’re throwing a big, fun NAT GEO AFTER HOURS this Friday – get tickets here.
OK, that was enough of that, PHOTO TIME STARTS NOW (and the photobooth snaps will be up momentarily too)
first up some Calm-Before-the-SPACE-STORM moments by Jeff:
photos by Dakota
mini Jeff break again:
photos by Franz
Jeff interlude:
Photos by Katherine:
AND last but certainly not the least – some more photos by Jeff:
