Drag queens take over Water Street Tampa this weekend

Proceeds go to Metro Inclusive Health.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 2:37 pm

Photo via daphne.ferraro/Facebook

Daphne Ferraro, who appears at the Water Street Tampa Pride Celebration on June 7, 2024.

Tampa’s swanky new drag meets, well, drag, this weekend when Water Street hosts a lineup of queens as part of its Pride Celebration.

The early block of festivities (5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.) happens at the Via Corazon plaza located between the East Cumberland garage and the Cora building, and includes Pride face painting, pop-up bars, and tarot card readings. Nearby Raybon Plaza hosts a silent disco (7 p.m.-10 p.m.) emceed by the “Tallest Drag Queen in Captivity,” Daphne Ferraro (pictured).

Metro Inclusive Health—a nonprofit that works to provide “quality health and wellness services that are inclusive, relevant, supportive and represent the lifetime continuum of the diverse people in our community”—will get some of the proceeds.

There’s no cover for the Pride Celebration at Water Street Tampa on Friday, June 7.
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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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