MX St. Pete Pride Pageant 2024. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
The first official St. Pete Pride event of 2025 is a pageant celebrating the best and boldest in local drag.

Competing for the title of Mr., Mrs., and Mx. St. Pete Pride 2025, LGBTQ+ community members will be rated for their performances in the categories of Presentation, Pride Wear, Evening Wear, Q&A and Talent.

Last year’s royal court—Kiala Nicole Santi as Mrs., Amari Lavish as Mr. and Justine B. Knights as Mx. St Pete Pride—will pass along the honors.

Pageant titleholder and “Queen of the Universe” contestant Jazzell Barbie Royale joins the panel of judges.

St. Pete Pride, which organizes the Sunshine State’s largest Pride parade every June, has hosted the yearly pageant since the early 2000s, but added the gender diverse “Mx” category a few years ago.

It’s a more-than-five-hour event, so eat before unless you’ve got RuPaul money to raid the Palladium’s snack bar.

Tickets start at $20 for 2025 Mx SPP Pageant happening Sunday, May 25 in St. Petersburg.

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This article appears in May 15-21, 2025.

Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,...