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Action Alert: Big Queer Dance Party: Trans Evening of Visibility!
Mark your calendars! On March 31, we’re turning up the volume and taking up room outside of the Governor’s Office for a Great Gay Dance Party in honor of Trans Afternoon of Visibility!
Why? Because representation matters. Because joy is resistance. Because every transgender, nonbinary, and LGBTQIA+ person deserves to be seen, celebrated, and supported.
When and where? Monday, March 31; 3pm; Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, 77 S. Lofty St.
Bring: Your most fabulous, colorful outfits, signs, flags, and dancing shoes; your full, authentic self.
This event will include music, dancing, community, and unapologetic joy!
Let’s show up, shine luminous, and make some noise! Everyone is welcome — bring friends, family, allies, and love.
Spread the word! We will see you on the dance floor!
Hosted by Fifty Fifty One Movement.

Date:

Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:00pm

Venue:

Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts

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A party of LGBTQ activists, drag queens and performers will greet Vice President Mike Pence when he visits Columbus, Ohio, on Friday.

Pence is expected to give a speech about the Republican tax statute inside the Renaissance Hotel, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The dance party, which is being co-hosted by Progress Ohio, will be held right outside the hotel on Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

"Ohioans will protest Vice President Mike Pence, who will be speaking at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Columbus, by dancing outside the hotel and performances including DJs and drag queens," a expression from Progress Ohio said.

Co-organizer Jay Smith told Newsweek that the idea stemmed from a Facebook upload last week, when someone mentioned that Pence was coming to Ohio the first day of Celebration weekend.

"We all kind of decided the best way to protest is to have a dance party," Smith said.

Smith said there are two points the protest wants to make: to highlight Pence's anti-LGBTQ record and to provide a positive atmosphere for the LGBTQ community.

"We yearn this to be a very positive, upbeat event that will showcase for other people in the [LGBTQ] community that may not be out or strug

‘Big Gay Dance Party’ to greet Pence in Columbus, Ohio

LGBTQ activists and kingly queens are going to hold a “Big Gay Move Party” outside of Vice President Mike Pence’s hotel when he visits Columbus, Ohio.

Pence is scheduled to speak about Republican tax commandment at the Renaissance Hotel on Friday afternoon. This coincides with the first diurnal of Columbus Celebration weekend, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

The event, which has been dubbed “The Massive Gay Dance Party,” will occur outside the hotel to speak out against the Vice President’s anti-LGBTQ actions and beliefs.

“Ohioans will rally Vice President Mike Pence…by dancing outside the hotel and performances including DJs and drag queens,” ProgressOhio, who is co-sponsoring the event, said in a press release.

Jay Smith, an organizer for the event, added: “We want to counter that anti-LGBT attitude that they have with a big, positive, loving dance party.”

A similar dance party was hosted in Washington D.C. in last year to march Pence. Hundreds of LGBTQ people and allies descended upon the temporary Chevy Chase home of Vice President-elect Mike Pe