As part of Pride month honoring the LGBTQ+ community, Minneapolis City Council members have announced they will host the first-ever drag show at city hall this week.
The 2025 Twin Cities Pride Parade in Minneapolis kicked off on Sunday. Twin Cities Pride is one of the largest Pride festivals in the country.
Minneapolis leaders plan to host the first-ever drag show at city hall on Thursday to celebrate Pride month. The Minneapolis City Council says they plan to approve an honorary resolution on behalf of the LGBTQ+ rights movement later that day at its full council meeting. Pride Month is celebrated each June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City – often seen as a pivotal moment in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Minneapolis City Council and city employees have announced they will honor the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community with a breakfast, reception and city hall’s first-ever drag show to kick off Pride Month on Thursday, June 11. All are welcome to attend the historic event, according to a press release, which is expected to involve three to five drag performers.
Council members are also set to approve an honorary resolution on behalf of the LGBTQ+ rights movement at its full council meeting on June 11. Pride Month is celebrated each June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City – often seen as a pivotal moment in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. In 2013, the Minnesota Legislature passed a marriage equality statute, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage at the state level.
By 2015, same-sex marriage expanded to all 50 states in the U.S. through various state and federal court rulings, legislation and voting measures. In 2017, the city council approved the creation of the Transgender Equity Council as an advisory board, and the following year, then council vice-president Andrea Jenkins and council member Phillipe Cunningham were sworn in as the first openly transgender people to serve on the Minneapolis City Council.
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