Indigiqueer Festival

Pier 62 | Free
Friday June 27, 1–8 pm

Kick off Seattle Pride weekend by enjoying food, drag, music, dance, and more, backdropped by the Salish Sea.

Open to all ages!

Welcome to Indigiqueer Festival!

Set on Seattle’s waterfront at Pier 62, enjoy an evening of engaging and interactive performances, activism, and community with the seas, mountains, and city as your backdrop!

Natoncks Metsu will join as the food vendor. There will also be art vendors and workshops.

This festival is an opportunity for our community to come together in strength and celebration to build community and celebrate the amazing artists doing work in community.

Photo of Gathered in This Place, Indigiqueer Festival 2024.

Photo of Gathered in This Place, Indigiqueer Festival 2024.

Proudly Partnered with Gathered in This Place

Friends is honored to be partnering with Gathered in This Place to bring the Indigiqueer Festival to the waterfront for a fourth year.

Gathered In This Place provides spaces for our Native Two-Spirit LGTBQIA+ community. We are an inter-tribal group for Two-Spirit Identified folx, and Indigenous QT-identified folks, including traditional, contemporary, rural, urban, and reservation.

Meet the Artists & Performers

Esmina Secret

I am a trans 2 spirit Alaskan Native. I am a ballroom house mother. Always serving fish on a well embellished platter. I am for the gworls and the gworls only.

Genesis Storm

I am the Owner/Operator of the Diamond Divas Drag Revue since 2022, which has some of the largest drag shows in Yakima, WA.

Holli B. Sinclair

Holli B is an indigenous drag queen from The Navajo tribe. She resides in the Seattle area and has called it home for the past 7 years. Originally from Arizona, she incorporates traditional drag roots with a bit of a rock and Roll edge.

Gila Suspectum

Gila Suspectum is a Pima and Yaqui drag Cryptid from Portland Oregon. They are A member of the Drag House of Smokez and the UwU QTPOC Collective.

Camilla Ray Summerz

Young indigenous, queer queen from northern Idaho, Miss, North Idaho gemstone, 2023, 2024 loud and proud, very high energy, and always here to slay the day away!

Lio Moonflower

Lío Moon is a Queer Two-Spirit Trans-Nonbinary Mescalero Apache Latinx Chinese performing artist, poet and advocate for pleasure embodiment and expansion. Performance is integral to their life; it is a practice that helps them break free from colonial and societal disciplines.

Cherri Bepsi

The rez clown bratz doll, Cherri Bepsi, Nimiipuu and Spokane Tribe. They live in Tacoma WA but they are originally from the Nez Perce Tribe Reservation in Idaho. This dancing diva will give you everything you need and more! Be ready to be served with Cherri Bepsi!

Guma’ Gela’

Guma’ Gela’ is a queer and trans art collective representing the Mariana Islands with a mission to cultivate and innovate the Chamoru culture through interdisciplinary artistic expression. Through collaborative work, they amplify each other’s voice and bring fantasy into reality.

DuckHunt

Koko Swallowz

Kitty Keene

Full Performers & Artists Line‑Up Coming Soon!

The official performers and artist line-up schedule for this event is currently being confirmed. Please sign up for our Newsletter to get notified about Waterfront Park news, updates, and happenings!

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the other performers…

  • Nucleara Pockalips
  • Willy Wankme
  • Bambi Beatzit
  • Klawz Mawnsta

Photo from Indigiqueer 2024 by Kayla Black.

2022 Indigiqueer Festival. Photo by Robert Wade.

Photo of Gathered in This Place, Indigiqueer Festival 2024.

Photo of Guma Gela, Indigiqueer Festival 2024.

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Centrally located, Pier 62 is easily accessed from Alaskan Way, or from downtown via Overlook Walk.

Centrally located, Pier 62 is easily accessed from Alaskan Way, or from downtown via Overlook Walk.

Accessibility

Friends strives to ensure Waterfront Park, and our events are inclusive, accessible, and welcoming to everyone.

About Pier 62 Amenities: an outdoor space providing various amenities such as wheelchair accessible seating, shade, water stations, cooling fans, and ADA accessible restrooms.

About Pier 62 Event Resources: ASL Interpreters, Assisted Listening Devices, Sensory Tent, Courtesy wheelchairs, and Sensory Kits including noise-reducing headphones, ear plugs, blankets, scented and weighted neck wraps, fidget toys, etc.

Learn more about accessibility resources at Waterfront Park here.

Waterfront Park is still under construction until 2025, accessible routes/navigation may be impacted.

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