Tacoma Pride will consume this weekend. The annual Tacoma Pride Festival celebrates love, acceptance, and diversity as the community unites to honor and uplift the South Sound LGBTQ+ community in the beautiful city of Tacoma. From vibrant performances to electrifying Queens, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Pride Festival. Tonight, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., the Pride Festival will kick off with a flag raising and LGBTQ+ Community Pride Awards ceremony at the Pantages Theater, recognizing individuals, community-based organizations and businesses that have shown exemplary leadership or service to the LGBTQ+ community. Rainbow Center staff and board members and Tacoma Pride organizers will attend, and Mayor Victoria Woodards will raise the Pride flag over city hall at the end of the ceremony. Saturday, it’s party time in downtown Tacoma. Like always, there will be lots of vendors and booths, as well as a beer garden, a main stage with LGBTQ+ entertainment and more. It’s an all-ages event from noon to 6 p.m. The street festival’s entrance is at 9th and Pacific Avenue, near Fireman’s Park on A Street. From 2 p.m. to midnight there will be a ticketed, 21+ Tacoma Pride Block Party at The Mix downtown. There will be drag performances from Plasma (from Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race), Anita Spritzer, Ship Show, The Illustrious Blacks, Baby Van Beezly and Amelia Day, among others. Peaks & Pints has been celebrating Pride with a special Pride tap handle and Pride beer flight since June 1. Today, we present another Pride flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride
Buoy Pride IPA
6% ABV
Brewed to support the LGBTQIA2S+ community, this Buoy Beer West Coast-style IPA elevates flavors of gentle sweetness and moderately bitter flavors with aromas of tropical fruits followed by some stone fruit, white peach, and orange zest. Sales from Pride IPA benefits Basic Rights Oregon, an organization that works for the LGBTQ2SIA+ community to live free from discrimination and to be treated with dignity and respect in every community
Future Primitive Queer Beer IPA
6% ABV
For the fourth year, Future Primitive Brewing has brewed Queer Beer IPA in support of White Center Pride and to foster diversity and inclusion in the White Center neighborhood. It’s a hazy IPA with a bready and grainy malt, and light sweet floral nose, followed by more floral, subtle herbal, orange and tangerine flavors.
Postdoc More Love
6.3% ABV
Postdoc Brewing’s More Love is an IPA with notes of Mandarin orange, red berries, and stone fruit. It’s brewed to celebrate Pride Month and to support Pride Foundation, which strives for a better, safer, and more equitable world for LGBTQ+ people and their families in the Northwest.
Single Hill Pay It No Mind
6.5% ABV
Brewed in collaboration with Yakima Pride, Single Hill Brewing‘s Pay it No Mind hazy IPA is brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Eclipse hops for ripe pineapple and berry flavors.
Stoup Paraderade IPA
7.3% ABV
Stoup Brewing’s LGBTQIA+ friends and allies came together to celebrate Seattle’s vibrant, beautiful community last month. Stoup’s second Pride beer, Paraderade IPA, features Enigma, Chinook and Comet hops. Together with their Rainbow Bubbles IPA, proceeds benefit Pride Place Seattle — an eight-story building located on Broadway between Pike and Pine, featuring 118 apartments above an LGBTQIA-focused community and health services center run by GenPride.
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