THE 2010 PRIDE FEST

This year's festival will be the weekend of June 5th and 6th. The celebration kicks off Saturday, June 5th with a live concert at The Capitol Theater in Davenport featuring disco icons "VILLAGE PEOPLE"!

On June 6th, the recognition of Diversity continues with a Street Fest from 1 PM - 9 PM in the Rainbow District of Davenport, Iowa. A stage featuring local entertainment will highlight one end of the festival with non-stop performances. We can't wait to see everyone!

ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE

JOIN US AT THESE EVENTS!

Gay Comedian Wendel Duppert will be appearing at Penguin's Comedy Club Thursday - Saturday. Click for more information.

It's a Retro '70s Party at Connections Nightclub on Friday, June 4 all evening! There will be a costume contest, with 2 Village People concert tickets given for BEST '70s OUTFIT and 2 Village People concert tickets given for BEST VILLAGE PEOPLE IMPERSONATOR. Judging will take place at midnight.

Pride Power Worship Service from 11 - 11:30 am on Sunday, June 6th at the Metropolitan Community Church. Bring your friends for a brief but powerful, informal and inspiring worship service with the message: "What it Means to be Gay & Christian" by Pastor Rich.

Pride Fest 2010 Sponsors

Star 93.5

Acorn Equality Fund

Mary's on 2nd

Quad Cities Convention & Visitor's Bureau

Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities

Vanguard Distributing Corporation

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Lujack's Auto Plaza

The Freighthouse

Connections Nightclub

 

About QC Pride

QC PRIDE, Inc., was started by Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities with support from many outstanding nonprofit organizations, who also benefit by raising funds at Pride Fest and by getting their message out to the public, including: Quad Citians Affirming Diversity, AIDS Project Quad Cities, DeLaCerda House, OneIowa, Equality Illinois, Progressive Action for the Common Good, QC Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Davenport Civil Rights Commission and the Unitarian Church of Davenport.

OUR mission is to encourage people to be Out and Proud whoever they are, as well as to educate the public about LGBT people and their contributions to history and to the community.  We seek to promote the health, education and civil rights of LGBT persons in the greater QC Area.

PRIDE festivities throughout the United States commemorate three nights of civil unrest known as the Stonewall riots. These riots occurred in late June 1969 in response to official harassment by the New York Police Department and are considered the birth of the movement for equal rights and liberation for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.