Pride Market & Festival
Sat, Jun 25
|Great Friends Meeting House
Our annual Pride Market & Festival is back at Equality Park with unique vendors, great performances, and live music celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community in Newport. We will be adding more info soon. RSVP in advance.
Time & Location
Jun 25, 2022, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Great Friends Meeting House, 21 Farewell St, Newport, RI 02840, USA
Guests
About the event
The annual Newport Pride Market & Festival is back at the Great Friends Meeting House with unique vendors, great performances, and live music celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community in Newport. The Festival will be open from 11 - 4 pm on Saturday, June 25 (Rain date: Sunday, June 26). Pride Ride in partnership with Bike Newport at noon.
DJ Rob Dixon will be playing fun pride theme tunes. Below is a list of vendors and performers you can expect to see there! Also read Newport Pride How To Guide.
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Special thanks to our Pride Sponsors
- Newport Historical Society
- BankNewport
- Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling Co.
- Life Raft & Survival Equipment - LRSE
- Hallman's Septic and Portable Toilets
- Fitzpatrick Team
SPEAKERS
- State Rep Deborah Ruggiero
- History UnErased
PERFORMERS
- Alex Kehm (singer)
- Blacc Brandi Drag (drag)
- Katy Soqueera (drag)
- OnyaNeez (drag)
- Jackie Henderson &friends (dance)
- Friends from Island Moving Company (dance)
- Trailer Park Girls (drag)
- The Sound Of Gravity
RESOURCE ORGS
- RI Queer PAC
- Youth Pride Inc.
- Women's Resource Center
- Newport County Prevention Coalition
- Hope Recovery Center Of Newport County-Parent Support Network
- TGI Network
- PFLAG Greater Providence, RI
- Newport County Community Mental Health Center
- John Clarke Senior Living
- AIDS Quilt Rhode Island
- Southcoast Fair Housing
- Potter League for Animals
- AIDS Project Rhode Island/Family Service of RI
- Be The Match
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center & Rogers/Thompson GSA
- Behavioral Health Group
- Conexión Latina Newport
- Involve Newport
- Interweave At Channing Church
- East Bay Community Action Program
- Newport County Youth Chorus
VENDORS
- NEWPRO Home Solutions
- Just ADD Dogs
- Taft Crafts
- Scrunchy Girl
- Homes By Connect
- Little Lady Baby
- Beauty as Duty Art
- Starrship Temperance
- Empire Tea & Coffee
- Clementine's Homemade Ice Cream - Middletown
- Kate Freess and Lark D’Helen
- Downtown Designs Newport ~ Â Sharing Art, Sharing Space, Sharing Community
- Lily + Lion Salon
- Wicked Fun Balloons
- MIST by Jackie Henderson
- TingApple
Photos thanks to Jen Bonin