Billy Penn: It’s about to be PrideAF. More on Philly’s new queer art festival
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April 14, 2026 | Billy Penn
Philly’s LGBTQ+ opera singers, drag artists and performers are coming together for a celebratory lineup of June shows.
Philadelphia is getting a new arts festival this Pride season.
The Philly Pride Arts Festival, or Philly PrideAF (we see what they did there), is running throughout June with LGBTQ+ musicians, choirs, opera singers, drag artists and actors coming together to put on a lineup of queer programming.
Six arts organizations are joining forces to make PrideAF a reality. They include:
Altissimo Arts
Cross Keys Theatre Collective
East Passyunk Opera Project (ePOP)
Liberty City Arts (LCA)
Prismatic Arts Ensemble
Wear Yellow Proudly (WYP)
Alice Chung and Helen Zhibing Huang, co-founders of Wear Yellow Proudly, noted that the festival is “a reflection of what makes Philadelphia so special” in a joint statement.
“Philly is home to an incredible wealth of artists and small arts organizations that place deep value on community, and it felt like the right moment for all of us to come together,” they said. “In many ways, this collaboration feels like an ‘Arts UN’, a space where grassroots arts organizations unite to uplift one another and celebrate the richness of our city’s cultural landscape.”
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