East Side Pride
Bringing community, creativity, and queer joy back to the heart of East Vancouver.
Rooted in connection and community care, East Side Pride celebrates the diversity of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities through music, art, drag, dance, and grassroots culture. Whether you’re reconnecting with chosen family, discovering local queer talent, or simply soaking in the summer atmosphere, this is a space to show up fully and unapologetically as yourself.
On June 27–28, join Vancouver Pride Society on the East Side for two days of community, creativity, and queer joy.
Saturday, June 27
East Side Pride Community Festival
📍 Grandview Park, Vancouver
🕚 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
🎟️ Free & All Ages
Join Vancouver Pride Society this June for East Side Pride Festival, a vibrant, all-ages celebration of queer community, creativity, and connection in the heart of East Vancouver. Taking place at Grandview Park during Pride Month, this free community gathering honours the legacy of queer liberation while celebrating the diverse voices, stories, and cultures that make our communities thrive today.
Spend the afternoon enjoying live drag performances, local musicians, community artists, food vendors, market vendors, and community organizations that are showing up, showing out, and creating spaces of belonging. Whether you're coming with friends, family, chosen family, or flying solo, East Side Pride offers a welcoming environment to connect, celebrate, and experience the joy, resilience, and vibrancy of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Performer Line-Up:
12:00PM Rainbow Concert Band
12:45PM Greater Vancouver Native Cultural Society
1:30PM Stephen Scaccia & The Groove Collective
2:45PM Commercial Break: Drag Show (Hosted by Acacia Gray)
4:00PM Stephen Scaccia & The Groove Collective
This year's event will also feature a Community BBQ Fundraiser in support of Saige Community Food Share Society, a grassroots organization dedicated to addressing food insecurity within Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender Diverse communities across Metro Vancouver. Learn more here: https://www.saigecommunityfoodbank.com/
BESTIES X EAST SIDE PRIDE
📍 The American
🕖 9:00 PM - 2:00 AM
🎟️ 19+
The official East side Pride Sapphic after party! Besties is Vancouver’s newest Sapphic party and Community! Whether you're showing up solo or rolling in deep with your crew, we're making a place where you can find your peoples.
Besides having amazing local queer DJs and a fun dance floor, we have a rad social hour with friend speed dating, games like pool and skeeball, cute cozy dark corners and large social tables at the iconic east van pub, The American. With an amazing sound system, DJ booth, epic new food menu and late night happy hour drink specials, there's definitely something for everyone at Besties.
Social hour 9:30pm - 10:30pm feat a unique style of friend speed dating & random doubles pool tourney.
Expect to hear throwbacks, mashups, remixes and hyperpop anthems of all your favourite sapphic and queer adjacent artists, we're also throwing in your fav singalongs and a few slow jams!
DEEJAYS
• Skylar Love (Babes On Babes)
• Emnesia (Numbers)
• Filimix (Babes On Babes)
• Claudia (Club Obsessed)
• Aria (Selected open decks DJ)
• Riddim N Spice (Selected open decks DJ)
This is a dedicated, unapologetic space for the SAPHIC, WLW, FLINTA community. If you've been feeling isolated in this city, this is your invitation to show up, meet new people and make new friends
Tantrums & Tiaras : The Drag “Pageant”
📍 Hideaway Bar (Waldorf Hotel) — 1489 East Hastings St
🕖 Doors 7:30 PM, Show 8:00 - 10:00 PM
🎟️ 19+, Proceeds towards DMS
TANTRUMS & TIARAS — a chaotic, campy drag “contest” full of big personalities, questionable decisions, and unforgettable performances. Presented by Phyllis Hull & WhatTheFrock Productions.
A Drag Pageant celebrating bratty behaviour, outfits worth ridicule and makeup / hair to die laughing at.
Tantrums will be thrown. Crowns will be questioned. Dignity will not be invited. Welcome to Tantrums & Tiaras: The Pageant, a drag parody spectacle where glamour meets full emotional collapse. Contestants of all kinds will battle it out in three highly prestigious and deeply unserious categories: Talent (questionable), Runway (delusional), Q&A (dangerous).
Expect rhinestones, riggory allegations, and at least one competitor who absolutely did not rehearse.
A panel of judges will be scoring with complete authority, while the audience gets a say too, because what is a pageant without a little chaos and favouritism? Will they serve excellence? Will they spiral on stage? Will they answer the question they were actually asked?
Hosted by Glimmer, Lonnie Hall de Vander Vogue and Phyliss Hull
Sunday, June 28
BACON & L’EGGS: Drag Brunch (Dr Seuss Theme)
📍 Howe Sound Taphouse (Waldorf Hotel) — 1489 East Hastings St
🕛 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
👨👩👧 All Ages & Family Friendly
🎟️ Free by Donation, Proceeds support SAIGE Community Food Share
Wrap up the weekend with brunch, drag, and community at BACON & L’EGGS. Bring your friends, family, chosen family, and appetite for an afternoon of performances, laughter, and good food for a good cause. Presented by Phyllis Hull & WhatTheFrock Productions.
Come join us for a fun-filled all-ages drag brunch featuring a Dr Seuss theme!
Welcome to the Bacon & L'eggs All-Ages Drag Brunch happening at Howe Sound Taphouse & Kitchen - East Van!
Get ready for a fabulous morning filled with delicious food, entertaining drag performances, and a whole lot of fun. This event is perfect for all ages, so bring your friends, family, or anyone who loves a good time. Join us for a one-of-a-kind brunch experience that you won't want to miss!
This community show is very well attended so book as soon as you can.
Come dressed in costume or just as you are.
