Salt Lake City Pride 2024: 10 bars where you can celebrate

Get your rainbow feather boa and fiercest outfit, it’s time for Pride.

There are two pride festivals planned this month — the Utah Pride Festival on June 1-2, and SLC Pride on June 27-30.

But local businesses are celebrating the LGBTQ community, too. From drag shows to DJ sets, here is a list of 10 Salt Lake City bars that are going all out for Pride, or showcasing their weekly lineups.

Aces High Saloon

On Saturday, Aces High Saloon at 1588 S. State St. will be hosting a mini pride festival with a market from 1 to 5 p.m. and live music starting at 7 p.m.

Cam Girl, The Glitter Bombs, Orange Soda and others will perform. Cover is $20.

Alibi

On Sunday, cocktail bar Alibi, at 369 S. Main St., is going to start serving drinks at 11 a.m., so you can walk over after the Utah Pride Parade ends.

Live DJ sets from Gato and Boo start at noon. Follow Alibi on Instagram for updates, @alibislc.

Club Try-Angles

Club Try-Angles, at 251 W. Harvey Milk Blvd. (900 South), will be kicking off its pride festivities on Wednesday this year with the Those Bitches Annual Pride Gala; doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

On Thursday, there will be “Pride-eoke” beginning at 8 p.m. Then on Friday, the bar will host its annual Bear Pride.

Saturday will be the Big Pride Party Blowout, and “second Pride” is planned for Sunday, featuring a barbecue on the patio at 3 p.m. On Monday, the bar will be closed, so the staff can take a well-deserved break.

Club Verse

It’s going to be near impossible to miss Club Verse at 609 S. State St. during Pride.

Owner Michael Repp has gotten a hold of 1,000 disco ball piñatas, and he plans to create a faux-disco ball ceiling that starts on the roof of Club Verse and comes to a rest on poles situated in a traffic lane on State Street, with that extra street space turned into a temporary patio.

Club Verse’s new rooftop patio — equipped with a full bar — will also be open for Pride. The interior of Ember, just a couple of doors down from Club Verse, will serve as a chill-out zone, where people can sip their drinks, enjoy calming ambient music, and get away from the hyped-up atmosphere in the main bar.

Club Verse’s own food truck, Bitch Plzzz will be serving street tacos, fries and more.

HK Brewing

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kate Lubing, co-owner and operations director of HK Brewing, pours a sample of their popular blackberry juniper flavor at 370 Aspen Ave. in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.

HK Brewing, at 370 W. Aspen Ave., will be holding a special edition of its Sip & Slay drag show for Pride on Sunday.

For the first showing, doors will open at 11 a.m. and the show will start at noon; for the second showing, doors will open at 3 p.m. and the show will start at 4 p.m.

There will be a full bar with cocktails, bloody marys and mimosas on the menu, and Vostok Burger food truck will be out front. There will be prizes for the best Pride outfit, “runway slay” and more.

Tickets are available through HK Brewing’s Instagram, @hkbrewingco.

Gracie’s

Gracie’s, at 326 S. West Temple, will be hosting a Pride drag bunch on Saturday at noon, according to their Instagram.

Tickets are $15 at the door, and there will also be $4 mimosas and $4 bloody marys. Gracie’s will be matching all ticket sales to help support Equality Utah.

The Locker Room

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A patron holds up a dollar bill for a drag performer during the weekly Tailgate Drag Brunch at The Locker Room, a gay sports bar, in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.

Lynn Katoa, co-owner of gay sports bar The Locker Room, at 1063 E. 2100 South, said they haven’t planned anything “crazy” for Pride because of the construction happening in Sugar House.

But he said that The Locker Room will be “open and celebrating” during Pride weekend, for anyone who wants to get away from the hustle and bustle of downtown.

On Friday, the bar will be holding drag queen karaoke with Lilia Maughn at 8 p.m.; on Saturday, you can pull up a seat and watch the UEFA Champions League; and on Sunday, the Tailgate Drag Brunch starts at 12:30 p.m.

The Locker Room is also going to be the host of Sugar House Pride on June 28-30.

MILK+

MILK+ is going hard for Pride, with a huge outdoor celebration starting Thursday and ending on Sunday, June 9.

The theme of the party is Disco Utopia, and it will feature drag performers, DJs, dancing and night laser shows. The event will raise funds for the Utah Pride Center and Equality Utah.

Tickets are available via MILK’s Instagram, @milk.slc.

Sayonara

Japanese-themed bar Sayonara, at 324 S. State St., is celebrating Pride with DJ sets from Bo York (hiphop and funky and jazzy dance music) on Thursday; DJ Che (top 40 dance songs) on Friday; DJ Lowdown and Friends (all vinyl) on Saturday; and Social Disco Club (hi-fi sounds with disco and house) on Sunday.

The bar will be open from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday to accommodate Utah Pride Festival attendees; DJs start at noon on the patio.

Why Kiki

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Pride Parade participants march down 400 East, on Sunday, June 4, 2023.

The 2024 Utah Pride Parade is going to be passing directly in front of Why Kiki, at 69 W. 100 South, so instead of doing their typical block party out front, this LGBTQ bar is going to be expanding its back patio and adding another dance floor, said owner Randy Oveson.

Thursday will be lip sync karaoke at 8 p.m., followed by this month’s lip sync battle finale at 9 p.m.

On Friday, an all-queer comedy show will kick off at 7 p.m., followed by a drag king show at 9 p.m. and a Juneteenth preview show at 10:30 p.m. After, drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes — who was in the top two in her season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — will perform at 11 p.m. There will be an encore drag show at 12:30 a.m.

On Saturday, Why Kiki will feature two showings of its celebrity impersonation show, “Almost Famous” — one at 8 p.m. (a seated dinner show), and one at 11 p.m. At 10 p.m., there will be an AFAB (”assigned female at birth”) drag show, and an encore drag show will start at 12:30 a.m.

Sunday will begin with drag brunch at 11 a.m. and drag lunch at 3 p.m. Paint night starts at 4 p.m., drag bingo at 6 p.m., a comedy show at 7 p.m., a burlesque show by House of Monroe at 8 p.m., and a “Sunday School” drag show at 11 p.m.

Why Kiki is opening its second floor as the new dance floor; beginning this weekend, it will feature music played over speakers, though in the future it will be used for silent disco, Oveson said.