Aug. 24-25
After the festive Long Beach Pride in May and June’s L.A. Pride festivities in West Hollywood, why not keep the LGBTQ celebrations going — this time, with the fourth DTLA Proud Festival in downtown L.A.’s Pershing Square?
In the city-block park, festival attendees will discover a glitter bomb of activities. During the festival (21 and older for the weekend events), there will be an artist alley, DJs mixing tunes and the on-site Summertramp pop-up water park. Also in the mix will be nonprofit booths covering topics such as mental health, financial health, women’s health and HIV prevention, and new this year, a marketplace highlighting LGBTQ entrepreneurs and small businesses and their products.
The newly formed organization overseeing the festival has a goal of earmarking festival proceeds for a DTLA Proud Community Center; $500,000 is being raised with the hope of opening the center in early 2020.
Info: DTLA Proud Festival, dtlaproud.org; tickets: $5 presale for Aug. 24-25.