The one-day festival has something for everyone with featured activities such as cultural programming, movie screenings at the Tower Theater, a Best of Miami Sandwich competition and a gigantic block party headlined by the likes of Albita, Lucy Grau, Pepper Mashay and DJ Abel.
Hosted in Miami’s historic Calle Ocho in Little Havana, Gay8 is a free LGBTQ+ art, music and food street festival celebrating the city’s vibrant Latino community. Campodónico Here’s a list of Miami’s not-to-be-missed LGBTQ+ events throughout the yearįrom iconic party festivals such as Winter Party, Miami Beach Pride, Aqua Girl and Circuit Festival Miami, to cultural happenings including OUTshine Film Festival and Art Gaysel, there’s something for everyone to experience and have fun year-round. You are welcome to share this material from this page, but it may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.By: Gino R. Start your Trip!Ĭopyright BestTrip.TV/Influence Entertainment Group Inc or Rights Holder. No surprise that Celebrity's modern luxury cruise line has been recognized as the LGBTQ+ Friendly Travel Company of the year, as well as 4-years' running as Best Large Ship Cruise Line for LGBTQ+ Passengers, making the cruise line a great option for guests looking for a great new place to celebrate Pride or a memorable LGBTQ+ wedding, or simply to feel welcome and at home on their next cruise to a dream destination. Its float took home a prize for first place, with over 400 Celebrity employees marching in the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade in 2018.Ĭouples who are guests on Celebrity ships with more to celebrate than Pride Month can also now be legally (not just symbolically) married on board following ground-breaking legislative changes in Malta, where Celebrity ships are flagged. The line held the first legal gay wedding on a major line on the Celebrity Equinox in January, 2018. The ship's captain presided over the historic ceremony, and now, fleet-wide, wedding ceremonies performed by the Captain on board are legal marriages. Celebrity hosts festival events and provides entertainment from the acclaimed Celebrity Productions team. On shore, Celebrity Cruises is a Presenting Sponsor of the Miami Beach Gay Pride celebrations in the cruise line's HQ hometown.
The first night of nearly every Celebrity cruise year round is earmarked for a popular LGBTQ+ Welcome Party, open to and enjoyed by all guests fleet-wide. And throughout each cruise, events and social hours foster the community.
The ship-board Pride parties commemorating Pride Month are just part of the cruise line's support of the community throughout the calendar year. Olympic Bronze Medalist Adam Rippon (pictured, below, sailing on the Celebrity Summit) and two-time men’s figure skating Olympian Johnny Weir served as ambassadors for 2018's festivities that welcomed all guests on board and made for one of Celebrity's biggest fleet-wide events.
Each ship took turns handing off the 'party baton' to the next ship to keep the parties running across hemispheres and time zones, following the clock to finally encompass all the ships in the fleet. In the end, Celebrity's Pride Party at Sea spanned 10,000 miles and 9 ships in different continents and time zones around the world. Now it looks like the cruise line's new tradition of celebrating LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion during international Pride Month and festivities is here to stay.Ģ018's Pride Month celebrations on Celebrity cruise ships kicked off on the Celebrity Constellation in Sicily, and on the Celebrity Reflection in Cartagena, Spain. San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, Berlin… Now you can add another destination to celebrate Pride Month: at Sea.Ĭelebrity Cruises held its first Pride party fleet-wide in 2017, wherever its ships were around the world.