The Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power’s Winter Get together Pageant 2025 makes a splashy return to Miami Seashore for its thirty second anniversary from February 26 – March 4, 2025. Winter Get together is an annual dance and music competition that includes a week-long collection of occasions benefiting native and nationwide LGBTQ+ organizations. This yr’s “Dance is Revolution” themed celebration options an eclectic mixture of music, group programming, and leisure that embodies the mantra, “Dwell free. Play laborious. Give again.”
“For individuals who’ve joined us earlier than, you already know this week-long symphony of music and motion is a part of what unites us to rejoice, join, and honor the enjoyment that fuels our energy,” Kierra Johnson, President of the Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power, stated in an announcement. “We’d be remiss to not spotlight why the Winter Get together Pageant stays a thriving cornerstone of queer tradition as one of many final remaining group owned circuit events. A part of the reply lies within the very floor we collect upon. Florida — a state the place hateful, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is rampant and dangerous insurance policies are piloted — has change into a testing floor for authoritarian methods designed to suppress our existence. Traditionally, the insurance policies that take root listed here are then exported to hurt different communities.”
The Winter Get together Pageant attracts over 10,000 attendees from across the globe every year. This yr, the competition will function greater than 12 thrilling occasions unfold throughout 10 world-class venues in iconic Miami and Miami Seashore — famend for his or her vibrant vitality and celebration. Friends will probably be handled to electrifying performances by worldwide DJs together with Chus, Karsten Sollors, Tom Stephen and extra. Winter Get together Pageant passes are actually obtainable HERE.
“With over 30 years of historical past elevating crucial funds for our group, this yr’s competition is our most fun up to now,” Jason Hellinger, Winter Get together Pageant Co-Chair, stated in an announcement. “We’re bringing a world class DJ roster that features the worldwide expertise you’ve come to anticipate, in addition to contemporary faces to shake up our lineup and proceed evolving the sound of the competition. We would like all of our company to really feel the love our volunteers put into the competition whereas dancing alongside your chosen household. Put together for a dance revolution.”
Based in 1994, Winter Get together supplies a secure haven for the LGBTQ and allied communities to rejoice queer pleasure and dwell freely. The Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power donates a good portion of the proceeds raised at Winter Get together and its sister occasion, the Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power Gala, to like-minded group advocacy teams in South Florida via the LGBTQ+ Fairness Fund, a philanthropic collaboration between the Activity Power, Our Fund Basis, and The Miami Basis. Since 2005, the Activity Power has given again greater than $3.8 million and supported over 100 group organizations in South Florida; the Activity Power additionally immediately funds social justice causes regionally and nationally.
Friends are inspired to order tickets to this yr’s occasions, all designed to seize the energetic spirit that’s Winter Get together.
NOTEWORTHY TO THIS YEAR’S WINTER PARTY FESTIVAL:
– Well being companions Avita Pharmacy and Prevention 305 current the favored (and free!) community-building and networking occasion LOCALIZE on Thursday, Feb. 27.
– For Ignite on Thursday, Feb. 27, Winter Get together will accomplice with Midnight Service — occasion producers whose ethos is rooted within the “spiritual expertise” of dancing to good music. The evening will function DJ Harmful Rose.
– The Nationwide LGBTQ Activity Power will honor group treasure Lisa Mercado on the VIP Cocktail Reception on Friday, Feb. 28 on the Commonplace Miami Seashore. Mercado’s contributions have included being the one feminine co-chair of Winter Get together Pageant, working tirelessly for over a decade as a Activity Power workers member, and serving as a board member and workers member of Pridelines.
– The primary of Winter Get together’s signature daytime occasions Underneath One Solar will probably be held on the Sagamore pool on Saturday, March 1 with DJs Dawson and Deanne. This would be the first time this beloved occasion has been held at a pool since 2018.
– Winter Get together’s premier celebration on the sun-kissed sands of Miami Seashore, Seashore Get together, returns with DJs Micky Friedmann and Erik Vilar on Sunday, March 2. For the second yr, the doorway to this yr’s Seashore Get together will probably be at tenth Road, two blocks south of its conventional house.
The thirty second annual Winter Get together Pageant is made doable with help from the Miami Seashore Customer & Conference Authority, Miami-Dade County Tourism Growth Council, and lots of further sponsors and companions listed right here. Media sponsors embody Edge Media, equalpride, Hotspots! Journal, Boi Journal, Funqtion, Get Out! Journal and extra. Particular person occasion tickets and occasion passes can be found HERE
