2022 Indy Pride Launch Party & Indy Pride Pageant

231 East 16th Street,Indianapolis IN 46202

01 May, 2022

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Join us as we announce Pride month festivities and crown 2022 Indy Pride royalty at the Pride Pageant! Indy Pride Launch Party  6:30p.m. - 8:30p.m. Join us as we announce our Pride month related festivities beginning at our Indy Pride Launch Party, followed by our Indy Pride Pageant. Grab a drink, some appetizers from our friends at Nameless Catering, and hear about the exciting events planned for our community during May and June as we celebrate Pride!  Indy Pride Pageant 8:30p.m. – 11:00p.m.-ish  The Indy Pride Contest has had a long and prosperous legacy. Originally this was a competition to name a Miss Hoosier 250, a queen to represent the annual pride tricycle race. This contest has since held the names Miss Circle City IN Pride, Circle City IN Pride Ambassadors, and Indy Pride Ambassadors. Due to the increasing acceptance of different gender identities and drag performance styles, in 2017 the binary pageant system was dropped and we shifted to become one of the only non-binary drag pageants in the country.  As Pride continues to evolve, the contest was renamed Indy Pride Pageant in 2019! Contestants are able to compete in the category in which their stage persona identifies. See more details on the updated categories, scoring, and expectations for participants here: https://indypride.org/indy-pride-festival/indy-pride-pageant/ 👑 Contestant applications are now CLOSED. Your information will be time-stamped and sent to our Indy Pride Pageant Director who will then send you the official registration form and details for the remainder of your submission. **The first three contestants to register under each category will be accepted, and all others will be placed on a waitlist in order of their time-stamped submission of this form.**  Amelia Bearhardt, Vincent T. Debeaute, and Apollo Venom Summers were our incredible Indy Pride Ambassadors for 2019-2021, and we are excited to see the talent that comes from our community in 2022! 🎟 This event is absolutely FREE to attend, but you must be 21+! Use the "Register" button to get the details on your calendar and to receive helpful information about the event.  You can also support Indy Pride here with an optional donation.  We look forward to seeing you in May! A special THANK YOU to our event sponsors Supporting Sponsor Nameless Catering Indy Pride is teaming up with QUIT NOW INDIANA to encourage healthy lifestyles for all members of our community with all Pride events being tobacco-free. For support and resources to quit tobacco, visit them at quitnowindiana.com or call 1-800-QUIT NOW. ---------- We are actively monitoring COVID-19 developments and will continue to do so throughout the coming months. With help from local health officials and our own Health Advisory Committee, Indy Pride will make final determinations on all health protocols closer to each of our planned events.