Pride Market & Festival

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 ~  Sharing Art, Sharing Space, Sharing Community
• Lily + Lion Salon
• Wicked Fun Balloons
• MIST by Jackie Henderson
• TingApple

Photos thanks to Jen Bonin