Weekend to include
several events
BY ISA KAUFMAN-GEBALLE
It’s time to celebrate — Astoria’s sixth
annual Astoria Pride event is here.
The festival, organized by the Lower
Columbia Q Center, will take place this
weekend throughout Astoria. This year’s
event theme is “We are here. We are there.
We are everywhere.”
Dida DeAngelis, chair of the Lower
Columbia Q Center, will emcee the enter-
tainment portion of the weekend. The week-
end’s events include a reception on Fri-
day; a party on Saturday; and a barbecue on
Sunday.
The Pride Reception will kick off on Fri-
day as a ticketed 21+ event.
Turnback Boyz, a queer musical group
who call themselves a “time traveling queer
boy band,” will make their first performance
since 2019. The Oregon-based collaborative
theater ensemble was created as a spin-off
of “Homomentum the Musical.”
“It’s our first performance since the pan-
demic … Our last show was at the Hoffman
Center in Manzanita, June 2019, so it kind
of feels like we’re jumping back in where
we left off, with another performance on the
North Coast,” said Max Voltage, one of the
band’s members.
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If You Go
Astoria Pride
Friday to Sunday
People pose during a previous Astoria Pride event.
Pride Reception, 21+ (limited tickets)
7 to 10 p.m., Friday (Purchase tickets on Astoria
Pride’s Facebook page)
Pride Treasure Hunt
Noon to 5 p.m., Saturday
Downtown Astoria
Pride Party
2 to 7 p.m., Saturday
Buoy Beer Co., Fort George Brewery beer gardens
Pride Drive In
9 p.m. to midnight, Saturday (limited parking)
Enter off 22nd St.
Pride BBQ
1 to 3 p.m., Sunday
Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts,
588 16th St.
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People smile during the 2020 Astoria Pride celebration.
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