{"id":761172,"date":"2026-06-25T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761172\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:51:14","slug":"photostory-edmonton-drag-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761172\/","title":{"rendered":"Photostory: Edmonton Drag Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post lazy-img wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC02361-scaled-e1780450313725-1000x500.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Leah Hennig   Van Goth    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kicking off Pride Month in Edmonton, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edmontondragfestival.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Drag Festival<\/a> brought together some of the best performers across Canada for an incredible weekend. Between incredible performances on the main stage there were runway competitions, tea times with queens, and plenty of queer joy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the amazing performers were Canada\u2019s Drag Race performers, from the Queen of the North herself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookelynnhytes.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brooke Lynn Hytes<\/a>, to some of the finalists of season six. There were also legendary local drag queens, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thepepper.1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pepper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/karlyklimax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Karly Klimax<\/a>. The festival and the performers persevered through wind, rain, and shine to deliver an incredible start to Pride Month.<\/p>\n<p>       <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leah Hennig Van Goth Kicking off Pride Month in Edmonton, the Edmonton Drag Festival brought together some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[6175,271158,49,48,271159,23752,271160,271161,271162,257648,144917,215698,48085,203250,203251,203252,81244,271163,174757],"class_list":["post-761172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-brooklyn-hytes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drag-queen","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-drag","tag-edmonton-drag-festival","tag-karly-klimax","tag-leah-hennig","tag-pepper","tag-photostory","tag-pm","tag-the-gateway","tag-u-of-a","tag-ualberta","tag-university-of-alberta","tag-van-goth","tag-yeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}