Shenseea the Rising Jamaican Star continues to break away from reggae\u2019s strict tradition as she is confirmed to join the lineup of Pride Island, a three-day music festival set to happen from Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 25 on Governors Island.<\/p>\n
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Hosted by NYC Pride, the event coincides with\u00a0Pride Month<\/a>, celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community, and features the first-ever trans headliner, German\u00a0Slut Pop<\/em>\u00a0singer\u00a0Kim Petras<\/strong>. Now that COVID restrictions have lessened in New York City, Pride Island marks the first fully in-person Pride event in three years. According to a press release, it aims to create \u201cnew experiences for the community to love and live their truth dancing freely without fear of consequence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With the theme of \u201cUnapologetically Us,\u201d Governors Island, which will have a few remixed names, will kick off with \u201cDrag Island\u201d on Friday evening, featuring performances from\u00a0RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u00a0<\/em>alum\u00a0Mo Heart\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Kylie Sonique Love<\/strong>. Brooklyn\u2019s own hip hop icon\u00a0Lil Kim<\/strong>\u00a0will headline on Saturday along with\u00a0Netta<\/strong>,\u00a0Raye<\/strong>, and\u00a0Papi Juice<\/strong>. At the same time, Kim Petras will conclude the weekend\u2019s festivities on Sunday night with\u00a0DJ Eddie Martinez<\/strong>,\u00a0DJ Dani Tori<\/strong>, and\u00a0DJ Alex Chapman<\/strong>\u00a0on the wheels of steel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For decades, the stance within dancehall and reggae when it comes to participating in inclusionary events that\u00a0involve the LGBTQIA+ community<\/a>\u00a0has been a hot-button conversation. Critics include\u00a0Sizzla<\/strong>,\u00a0who recently denounced Spice\u2019s participation<\/a>\u00a0in an Instagram post that spurred a fiery online debate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDo not mix reggae and Dancehall with your evil nasty ways; no to guns; no to gays; no to lesbian; no to paedophilia; no to all what\u2019s wrong and going against our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It remains to be seen how Shenseea\u2019s fans feel about her Pride Island appearance, but it is great to see that she won\u2019t be swayed by negative peer pressure<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shenseea the Rising Jamaican Star continues to break away from reggae\u2019s strict tradition as she is confirmed to join the lineup of Pride Island, a three-day music festival set to happen from Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 25 on Governors Island. Hosted by NYC Pride, the event coincides with\u00a0Pride Month, celebrates the LGBTQIA+ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-breakingnews"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}