Amazon Prime To Host Virtual LGBTQ Pride Event With ‘Drag Race’ Alums

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Amazon Prime To Host Virtual LGBTQ Pride Event With ‘Drag Race’ Alums

This time of the year, people are usually celebrating the birth of the “gay rights movement”’ with LGBT Pride events across the country.

However, this year due to COVID-19, most LGBT Pride events have been cancelled.

Amazon Pride has now stepped up to announce they will continue to celebrate with a virtual Pride festival called Pride Inside.

RELATED: BET.com's 12 Days Of Pride Celebrates Queer Black Creatives

There will also be performances and conversations with RuPaul’s Drag Race alums, including Monique Heart, Gia Gunn and proud North Carolinian Heidi N Closet, who won Miss Congeniality during the most recent season.

Happy Pride and see Heidi in all her Pride fabulousness below:

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