Motor City Pride 2023: What to expect at annual LGBTQ+ festival, parade

The Motor City Pride Parade (Photo: Amber Ainsworth)

Motor City Pride will take over Detroit's Hart Plaza with rainbow flags this weekend for the annual LGBTQ+ festival and parade.

Both Saturday and Sunday will feature activities for the whole family, including Sunday's parade. Dozens of performers will take the stages and more than 140 vendors will be selling merchandise and sharing services that they offer to the LGBTQ+ community. 

Saturday's events start at 1 p.m., with entertainment scheduled all day and a family area open from 2-5 p.m. The last act takes the stage at 8 p.m.

Sunday starts with the parade step-off at Griswold and Fort streets at noon before the festival gates open at 12:30 p.m. The last act takes the stage at 6 p.m.

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Pride entry

Attending the Motor City Pride Parade is free. 

Entry to the festival is $5. Tickets can be purchased online in advance or by using QR codes that will be on display outside the festival. 

The entry gate is off Jefferson Avenue at the UAW-Ford building on the west side of Hart Plaza.

Pride entertainment schedule

Pride Stage

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Hosted by Sabin

  • 1:15 p.m. Breakfast for Dinner
  • 2 p.m. Better Love
  • 3 p.m. Sabin's Drag Revue
  • 4 p.m.The Iron Roses
  • 5 p.m. Boys of Fall
  • 6 p.m. Sabin's Drag Revue
  • 7 p.m. Siena Liggins
  • 8 p.m. The Robyn Party

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Hosted by Andrew Christian

  • Noon DJ CIV
  • 1 p.m. PRISM Men’s Chorus
  • 2 p.m. Drag Show: Robin Fierce from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Jasmine Kennedie from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Sabin
  • 3 p.m. Little Visits
  • 4 p.m. Mama Yaya
  • 5 p.m. Andrew Christian
  • 5:30 p.m. JORDY
  • 6:15 p.m. DJ CIV

Festival Stage

Saturday, June 10, 2023

  • 1:30 p.m. The Science Fair
  • 2:30 p.m. Desert Sharks
  • 3:30 p.m. Killing Pixies
  • 4:30 p.m. Hayley and the Crushers
  • 5:30 p.m.Rodeo Boys
  • 6:30 p.m.The Idiot Kids
  • 7:30 p.m. Synthia Looper
  • 8:15 p.m.Stage Closes

Sunday, June 11, 2023

  • 1:15 p.m. OneLineDrawing
  • 2:30 p.m. The Dick Withers Band
  • 3:30 p.m. Larah Helayne
  • 4:30 p.m. CHECKER
  • 5:30 p.m. Acts of Violets

Pyramid Stage

Saturday, June 10, 2023

  • 2 p.m. DJ DigiMark
  • 3 p.m. Bronsyn Sacker
  • 4 p.m. THAY
  • 5 p.m. Nugisy
  • 6 p.m. Robert Bannon
  • 7 p.m. Anthony J Fink

Sunday, June 11, 2023

  • 1:30 p.m.DJ Edward Alan
  • 2:30 p.m. Sharp Lives
  • 3:30 p.m. Crystal Harding's Drag Revue
  • 6 p.m.Stage Closes

Riverfront Dance Stage

Saturday, June 10, 2023

  • 1 p.m. HOUSECATS: HOTWAXX HALE and Jenny LaFemme
  • 3 p.m. Jesse Cory B2B Ben Scott
  • 5 p.m. TYLR_ and KASS DETROIT
  • 7:30 p.m. Ladylike

Sunday, June 11, 2023

  • Noon Ashton Swinton and Garrison XR
  • 2 p.m. Kindle
  • 3:30 p.m.Mister Joshooa and LOREN DETROIT
  • 5:30 p.m.John Collins

Items prohibited at Pride

  • Weapons
  • Umbrellas larger than a golf umbrella
  • Beverages (including bottles of water; empty bottles allowed)
  • Coolers and Camelbacks
  • Bicycles, skateboards, and skates
  • Drones
  • Remote-controlled cars and toys
  • Flyers and samples not from vendors
  • Air horns
  • Laser pointers
  • Poles

Pride Parade map