Muslim Pride 2026 • DC • NYC • LA
Muslim Pride is a community-led, multi-city cultural platform centering queer and trans Muslim artists, voices, and histories. Founded to create space beyond the margins, we place queer and trans Muslim presence within the broader history and future of LGBTQ+ liberation.
About Muslim Pride
Since its founding in 2020, Muslim Pride — presented by ScrapFest, a grassroots platform amplifying trans, racialized, and underground voices — has produced live performances, showcases, and gatherings that uplift artists across music, drag, poetry, and performance.
Our work fosters connection, care, and collective joy, rooted in the belief that queer and trans Muslims deserve to be seen, celebrated, and supported without fragmenting their identities to belong.
How it began
What started in 2020 as a digital showcase during lockdown has grown into a powerful in-person movement. From packed shows at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre to partnerships with Unity Mosque and the Islamic Studies Department at the University of Toronto, Muslim Pride has carved out vital space for representation, healing, and joy. Our work challenges Islamophobia and homophobia in both queer spaces and Muslim communities while centering spiritual affirmation and artistic brilliance. In 2024, Muslim Pride expanded its programming with a Drag 101 workshop at The 519 in Toronto — an affirming, skill-building space where young queer and trans Muslims explored performance, self-expression, and community care.
Growing the work
In June 2026, Muslim Pride expands across Washington, DC, New York City, and Los Angeles, featuring more than 30 queer and trans Muslim artists in historic LGBTQ+ cultural spaces. This expansion reflects our commitment to visibility, accessibility, and honoring queer and trans Muslim history as an integral part of LGBTQ+ culture.
Our approach
Muslim Pride is community-funded and community-led. We prioritize fair artist compensation, accessibility, and intentional care in every aspect of our work — from programming and production to partnerships and outreach. Our events are built through collaboration with artists, organizers, volunteers, and supporters who believe culture can create belonging and possibility.
Why we exist
Muslim Pride exists because community makes it possible — and because our stories deserve to be centered, remembered, and shared.
Icons and rising voices
Muslim Pride brings together the most celebrated queer and trans Muslim artists while championing fresh, emerging talent—creating a powerful platform for both icons and rising voices to shine.
(Photo: Lucifer Rose— circa 2024)
Commitment to safe spaces
Muslim Pride is committed to creating a safe, affirming environment for all—audiences, artists, staff, and organizers—by working closely with our venues to ensure every space reflects our values of care, respect, and community well-being.
(Photo: Halal Bae— circa 2023)
COMMUNITY VOICES
“We hold deep gratitude for those who came before us—the artists, organizers, and visionaries who paved the way. Muslim Pride is one thread in a much larger tapestry of queer and trans Muslim resistance—woven through care, courage, and quiet brilliance.”
— Urvah Khan (Curator & Executive Producer at Muslim Pride)
"Muslim Pride is a pioneering platform for queer and trans Muslims navigating the intersections of their identities, and showcasing the depth, diversity, and shared truths of their experiences. Through art, dance, music, and poetry, pain, sorrow, and joy are transformed into something beautiful. ‘Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.’ Thank you, Muslim Pride, for helping create beauty."
— Imam El-Farouk Khaki (Co-Founder of Unity Mosque / El-Tawhid Juma Circle)
“Muslim Pride creates the kind of space many of us wished we had growing up — where faith, art, and queerness don’t have to be separated. It’s powerful to see queer and trans Muslim artists leading, creating, and supporting one another in community. Watching Muslim Pride grow has been a beautiful reminder of what’s possible when we build our own spaces with care and intention.”
— Troy Jackson (Musician and Co-Founder of Unity Mosque / El-Tawhid Juma Circle)
"I am a Community Advisor and Trans Ambassador with Muslim Pride. I’m part of Muslim Pride to help make sure trans voices are seen and respected — especially voices from the Global South. This festival is about queer and trans Muslim community, care, and connection across borders."
— Shahzadi Rai (Organizer of Pakistan's Trans March, Sindh Moorat March)
“The Stonewall Inn is where Pride was born. Supporting Muslim Pride feels like continuing that legacy - opening our doors to the next generation of queer and trans voices. I am proud to stand behind this movement and to be the first home for Muslim Pride as it expands across the U.S."
— Chauncey Dandridge (Booking Agent at the Stonewall Inn in NYC, DJ & Activist)