Empowering Families to Build Lives Free from Domestic & Sexual Violence PRESS RELEASE CONTACT For immediate release Stacy Seger, Development Director May 12, 2021 479.295.9191 [email protected] PRIDE Resource Fair and Charity Drag Show Event Coming to Bentonville BENTONVILLE, Arkansas – The Northwest Arkansas Women’s Shelter is partnering with Crystal Bridges and The Momentary to bring you Bentonville Pride 2021. The June 5 event will include a PRIDE Resource Fair and Celebration. Over 30 community organizations, businesses, and non-profit groups are coming together to show their support for our siblings in the LGBTQ+ community and to celebrate the beautiful diversity that IS Northwest Arkansas during Bentonville’s first Pride Celebration! This event will take place on the grounds of The Momentary Green and is free for all ages! Throughout the day there will be pop-up performances by local talented Drag Queens such as InertiaTM, Ella Rosa, AfroditeTM, O’Shea, and Taylor Madison Monroe just to name a few! The Amazeum will be on-site offering colorful creative crafts for children and adults and there will be music, food trucks, vendors, and other resources supporting the LGBTQ+ community! In the evening, the NWA Women’s Shelter will be hosting their 2nd annual charity drag show, Purple Reign presented by Skittles. This show will feature 8 incredibly talented local performers as well as season 12 runner up of RuPaul’s Drag Race, CRYSTAL METHYD! A limited number of tickets for the evening event are still available on our website at www.nwaws.org/purplereigndragshow/ . Joey Baker, knows as Drag Queen InertiaTM is excited to see PRIDE expand to Bentonville. “The month long celebration has mainly been in Fayetteville since NWA began celebrating PRIDE in June. I think it is absolutely crucial and vital to our community to start expanding that…I am blown away at the response of non-profit organizations who wanted to be included in this. It shows my community that not only do we have allies, but also resources that may have not been known of. This event is ground-breaking and long overdue.” Stacy Seger, Development Director for the NWA Women’s Shelter says “our passion for this event comes out of our core belief that ALL people deserve to live lives free from violence and assault. We want our siblings in the LGBTQ+ community to know that we see you, we believe you, and we honor you. We have a place for you.” The Northwest Arkansas Women’s Shelter provides emergency shelter as well as counseling, legal, and advocacy services to all survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault. The LGBTQ+ community faces much higher rates of DV and sexual assault than most other demographics. The NWAWS is an organization committed to serving all people regardless of gender or sexual identity, race, socioeconomic status, or religion. NWA Women’s Shelter PO Box 1059 Rogers, AR 72757 479.246.0353 .