The Utah Pride Festival kicked off Saturday, with thousands of LGBTQ people and their allies celebrating 50 years since the start of America’s gay-rights movement.
The festival is expected to draw some 35,000 people to Washington Square, around City Hall in downtown Salt Lake City, on Saturday and Sunday. The event includes music, food, community groups, vendors and more.
The scheduled headliner on the festival stage Saturday is Aja, the nonbinary queer artist/performer featured on “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3.”
The festival’s theme — “Exist. Resist. Persist.” — marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York.