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“People couldn’t understand the correlation between the two. “Throughout my life as a gay man living here, I heard many conversations where some people thought it as disrespectful,” he explained. The response was whittled down to 40 acts but then COVID-19 hit and the festival was paused. As the pandemic has slowly ebbed, Ferrara reached out again and drew acts mostly from the South as comics from other regions weren’t ready to travel as far.įor Ferrara, the festival also was a chance to undo the stigma surrounding the alignment of LGBTQ+ events with Memorial Day.
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“I said, ‘Would you like to come to beautiful Pensacola, Florida, for Memorial Day weekend?’ We got at least 200 submissions.” “As soon as that was over, I started planning a bigger one.”įerrara took to social media, soliciting comics for the following year. The first P3 was in 2019 at Chizuko, the hip vegan performance venue in Belmont-DeVilliers. With some assistance from Gay Grassroots, Ferrara cobbled together 10 LGBTQ+ acts for his Pre-Pride Festival as a lead-in to June, National Pride Month. She played Aunt Lucy, an angelic mentor to the titular character in “Dumplin,” the 2019 Netflix film starring Jennifer Aniston. “I started doing comedy on March 1, 2013, basically on a dare,” Begley confided. “I talk a lot about family and my experience growing up in the church and South Carolina.”īased in Asheville, North Carolina, Begley’s blunt confessional style bodes well with her Appalachian accent. On Saturday, Melissa Nichols from Tampa Bay will perform “Girls Can’t Be Pastors,” her act based on growing up in a religious homeschooling community, at 7 p.m. at Cabaret. Later that night, Hilliary Begley will be at O’Riley’s Irish Pub at 9 p.m. P3 will have six shows, spaced out two per day. Each one features a headline act starting with Jeff D who kicks off the festival at 5 p.m. Friday at Cabaret. Jenn Snyder follows at 7 p.m. In dining: The Joint restaurant will bring New Orleans flair to Palafox Street with late May openingįerrara would like the festival to serve those who can’t make it to the annual Memorial Day weekend parties at Pensacola Beach. He also envisions it as a stand-in for Emerald City, the defunct gay nightclub that drew the biggest mainland crowds in past years. Seven days out: Pensacon returns for eighth convention, Pensacola Mardi Gras kicks off It's Pensacon week!: Changes, celebrities and downtown after-parties highlight 2021 event “The whole comedy community is coming together to try and make something big happen,” said Ferrara. Tickets are available through .įerrara enlisted other local comedians, including Olivia Searcy and Delisia Nichols who host a weekly open mic at Big Top Brewery. The festival also has attracted sponsorship from Constant Coffee and Tea, Rated R Comedy, Emphatic Practice, Legal Leaf, Guaranteed Rate Insurance, Stamped LGBTQ Film Fest, YIKES! Comedy, and the Daily Squeeze. and they will be sharing their talents with us in Pensacola,” said Andrew Ferrara, a local comic who organized the event. “We have selected 25 of the best LGBTQ+ comedians in the U.S. After a weekend celebration of characters and heroes, downtown will turn its attention to comedy in the form of the “Pensacola Pre-Pride Comedy Festival,” or “P3,” on May 28-30.