Big Gay Day 2022

Overview

It's not every day that an inner-city street shuts down for an onslaught of queer music and fun. No, just Big Gay Day. Hitting its 22nd year in 2022, the annual event will return to The Wickham and the surrounding roadway on Sunday, May 1 for an afternoon and evening of tunes and celebratory mayhem.

Stand amid the Big Gay Day crowd and it feels like absolutely everybody is there. This year, on the stage, 'Absolutely Everybody' singer Vanessa Amorosi will be on of them. On the bill, she's joined by Courtney Act, Faker, DJ Glitter, Kinder and Jawbreakers, as well as Super Disco Club, Ellen Reed, Sellma Soul, Being Jane Lane, Garret Lyon and Beks — plus DJ Dolly Llama, Vollie and Friends, Coast to Coast Drag Bingo and Cult Burlesque.

This hefty lineup of performers, musicians, DJs and drag stars will be taking to the stage to mark Big Gay Day's 2022 rainbow galaxy concept. This is the first time the fest has gone with a theme, and it's aiming to go as out of this world as it can with the notion.

The event has proven to be the city's most colourful and diverse street festival for the past two decades, after all, and will no doubt continue to be so again in 2022. As always, there'll be carnival acts, multiple performance spaces, food trucks, themed pop-up bars and plenty of partying people on the agenda, as well as raising funds for LGBTQIA+ community charity partners Diverse Voices and 2Spirits.

Tickets go on sale on Thursday, March 17.

Updated March 15.