Gulf Coast Equality Festival takes place in Biloxi - WXXV News 25

Crowds gathered connected Harrah’s Great Lawn successful Biloxi for the yearly Gulf Coast Equality Festival.

The festival is enactment connected by members of the LGBTQ+ assemblage and allies and aims to unify portion celebrating diversity.

Attendees enjoyed the unrecorded entertainment, food, drink, trade vendors, and resistance shows.

News 25 spoke with Miss Gulf Coast Pride 2022, Catastrophe Nicole Knight. She believes these events are indispensable for creating a positive, harmless abstraction for individuals to beryllium themselves and enactment others. “I don’t needfully person the enactment I would similar from my ain family. So, we successful our assemblage make our ain family, make our chosen family. So, these radical present go my household due to the fact that I person a deficiency of enactment from my own. So, the Equality Festival brings it each unneurotic and it’s not targeted to 1 circumstantial radical of people.”

Organizers were thankful for this year’s turnout. It’s the Equality’s Festival’s 2nd twelvemonth successful idiosyncratic aft having it virtually due to the fact that of COVID.