RIOT!
The Capital Pride Official Opening Party
Friday, June 7, 2024
9:00 PM – 3:30 AM
Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel Rd NE, Washington, DC
*Open to 18+ years of age.
Photo Credit: Ted Eytan
RIOT! is a party named in homage to the awe-inspiring efforts of our ancestors. On June 28, 1969, following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a RIOT broke out, lasting for several days. A united queer community diverse in gender identities and race, including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, unknowingly sparked a revolution of activism that would lead to the rights we have today. Now, 55 years after the RIOT that started it all, we can celebrate and dance and prance and strut, slay, death-drop, twerk, and werq, and generally be our own true selves because of the heroes who came before us. And now, faced with new efforts to criminalize our very existence, we need to rise up together again and declare “DRAG IS NOT A CRIME!” What better way to make that statement than to celebrate drag in all its forms with a performance night of epic proportions. Come join the insanity and dance the night away with thousands of your friends and chosen family!
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Purchase your tickets early as this event will sell out!
*THIS EVENT IS 18+
*For fair accessibility, we ask that the lower ticket prices are reserved for those that are most in need in our community.
*No refunds or exchanges. All proceeds will go to the Capital Pride Alliance and the Pride 365 Fund.
We will have a stacked line-up of both local, national, and world-famous queer performance artists to represent those who truly make up our crazy-talented inclusive LGBTQ+ community. Kick off your Pride weekend at DC’s largest Pride party and main event.