Ann Arbor Pride is gearing up for its 31st outing on August 1, and downtown is set for a full-day takeover. The free street festival is scheduled from noon to 9 p.m., covering multiple city blocks with stages, food trucks, dozens of booths and a kids zone offering family-friendly activities into the early evening. Organizers have lined up marquee drag performers and special guests to anchor the program.
Lineup, stages and family programming
Festival organizers say this year’s event will feature three stages of live entertainment, a drag story hour, and more than 200 vendors, with explicitly family-friendly shows running until 6 p.m. Headline performers on the bill include Latrice Royale, Christopher Hamblin, Erika Norell, Natalie Cole, Shaeshae Lareese, and Terri Vanessa Coleman, and Dominique Jackson is slated as a special guest. Those details were shared on social channels and reported by MLive.
Who’s presenting and the festival footprint
The Jim Toy Community Center, which launched the event in 1995 under the name OUTFest, continues to present Ann Arbor Pride. The festival website lists August1 as the official date and places the celebration in downtown Ann Arbor, complete with maps and organizer contact information on the event page. Per Ann Arbor Pride, the footprint covers core Main Street blocks and nearby corridors…