Pride Weekend Closing Party Returns August 3rd.
The wait is officially over. The Gay Agenda’s sold-out Pride Weekend Closing Party returns August 3rd. And the lineup is stacked higher than your ex’s emotional baggage babe. On Pride Sunday Vancouver’s biggest pride party will transform the newly renovated Harbour Convention Centre into a queer utopia of chosen families, giant rainbows, and international pride talent; with three parties across two stages.
Karsten Sollors returns to his rightful Pride throne — The outrageous and infections breakout DJ duo Illustrious Blacks, fresh off the global Pride festival circuit land in Vancouver for the very first time — Nick Bertossi comes home after two years away to decimate the new full throttle cockpit experience, and our beloved Sam Steele returns to sprinkle his magic over the dance floor and get us ready for — RuPaul Drag Race All Star mother-trucking D-E-N-A-L-I — Canada’s Drag Race champion Queen Venus — RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Joey Jay — CDR Season 1’s Tynomi Banks and our host, the one and only Alma Bitches.
Voices will be lost. Friendships will be cemented. And whether you're twirling under the Pride Stage lights or sweating it out in the dark euphoria of Cockpit, you’ll be exactly where you’re supposed to be: in a room with 2000 people celebrating our right to exit.
Because Pride isn’t just a party. It’s a proclamation. It's the living, breathing heartbeat of a community that refuses to shrink. Every beat drop, every hug, every drag performance, every sweaty dance floor anthem is a love letter to the generations that fought before us and everyone still pushing for freedom, visibility, and love. So come with your chosen family, bring your loudest self, and let's close Vancouver Pride Weekend together; not just in celebration, but in unity, visibility, and tear jerking unapologetic queer euphoria.
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🌈 w/ Special Guests 🌈
KARSTEN SOLLORS (Chicago)
ILLUSTRIOUS BLACKS (New York)
NICK BERTOSSI
SAM STEELE
JESSE WALKER (SLC)
OH MY GORD
AVRY
DENALI (RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars)
VENUS (Winner of Canada’s Drag Race)
TYOMI BANKS (CDR Season 1, Canada vs The World)
ALMA BITCHES The Modern Mother)
MOLLY BALLOONS (LA)
LAZER LIGHT HOUSE
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🪩 QUEER DISCO 🪩 (Pride Stage 9:00PM)
Where it all began. Before house music filled queer spaces, gays danced the night a way with black disco pioneers in brilliant spaces across North America. Anyone who has been to a disco party knows there is truly no better way to start a party night. Whether you’re a disco fan or a professional partier who is too seasoned to wait in a processing cue, join the performers, queens and volunteers as we take off together and soar into the bright gay skies.
🏳️🌈 ICONS 🏳️🌈 (Pride Stage 10:30PM)
Please raise your freak flags for our national anthems. 🙏 Close your eyes and imagine the ultimate pride party: the colours, the giant hugs and big smiles, the outfits, the cutie standing in front of you, the gogo dancers, the Queens and the affirming dance-neighbour side nods when the beat drops just right… and then add an eighty-foot-wide music festival stage, a giant rainbow, a print-out photo booth and confetti cannons. Dance and sing like everyone and no one is watching. From pride anthems to high energy, sickening performances seamlessly mixed into dancey vocal house sets… Icons will be the gayest, brightest, and most fabulous Vancouver Pride party you have ever been to.
😈 COCKPIT 😈 (Tech Stage 10:00PM)
Queer Euphoria & Sweaty Tech-House. Step into the Berlin-inspired modern paradise of Cockpit as we redefine the circuit party. Feed your desires beneath a constellation of lasers at the fully evolved cockpit stage experience. COCKPIT resurrects the judgement-free, queer togetherness of the original 1980's 'circuit' era 🖤 combined with the fabulous fetish and circuit fashion of today.
Sunday, Aug 3rd @ 9:00pm
Harbour Convention Centre
760 Pacific Blvd. Vancouver
