LA Pride 2017: Brandy, Chromeo to headline festival

Chromeo will headline the main stage at LA Pride on June 10. Photo: Chromeo.

WEST HOLLYWOOD — Pop R&B singer Brandy and electro-funk duo Chromeo will headline the main stage at the LA Pride Festival next month.

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The LA Pride Festival will take place noon to 1 a.m. on June 10 and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on June 11 on San Vicente Boulevard between Melrose Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard.

Festival tickets, which are on sale, range from $15 to $35.

Chromeo (David Macklovitch aka Dave 1 and Patrick Gemayel aka P-Thugg) will perform June 10, and Brandy will take the stage June 11 at the festival, which will be located in West Hollywood Park and the Pacific Design Center Plaza on San Vicente Boulevard.

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Last year, about 60,000 people attended the three-day festival and approximately 150,000 cheered the parade along Santa Monica Boulevard.

Erika Jayne, Brooke Candy, Kat Dahlia and Aaron Carter also will perform on the main stage.

Latin, hip hop, and R&B lineups have not yet been announced.

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Phillip Zonkel

Award-winning journalist Phillip Zonkel spent 17 years at Long Beach's Press-Telegram, where he was the first reporter in the paper's history to have a beat covering the city's vibrant LGBTQ. He also created and ran the popular and innovative LGBTQ news blog, Out in the 562.

He won two awards and received a nomination for his reporting on the local LGBTQ community, including a two-part investigation that exposed anti-gay bullying of local high school students and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protections for LGBTQ students.

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