Miss Savannah Pride 2026: Savannah’s Legendary Pride Pageant Returns October 3
Miss Savannah Pride 2026: 26 Years of Drag, Pride & Savannah History
Savannah, get ready!
One of the city’s longstanding Pride traditions returns this October as Miss Savannah Pride 2026 takes the stage on Saturday, October 3, 2026, in downtown Savannah.
And this year is going to be a little different.
A little bigger.
And if we have anything to say about it, a whole lot more spectacular.
For 26 years, Miss Savannah Pride has celebrated the queens, performers, artistry and community that have helped make Savannah’s LGBTQ scene what it is today.
This year, Savannah Shenanigans Tours, through its event production company Glow Entertainment, is producing Miss Savannah Pride 2026, carrying that tradition into a very special new chapter.
The official event is presented by Club One, with Glow Entertainment producing the 2026 pageant. The event takes place October 3 at The Bolton, 12 W. Liberty Street in downtown Savannah.
And we have absolutely no intention of doing this quietly.
A Very Special Year for Miss Savannah Pride
For a very long time, Miss Savannah Pride and the legendary Club One have been intertwined.
This year, however, Club One is preparing for its next chapter in a new location.
That means the 2026 Miss Savannah Pride Pageant gets the rare opportunity to step outside its familiar home for one extraordinary night. And rather than simply recreate what has been done before, we want to make Year 26 something Savannah remembers.
This is about honoring the queens who came before us.
The entertainers who built Savannah drag.
The titleholders who carried the crown.
The audiences who screamed, tipped, laughed, cried and came back year after year.
And the next generation of performers who are about to write their own part of that history.
We’re going to make them proud!
More Than a Pageant — It’s a Full Night of Savannah Drag
Miss Savannah Pride 2026 isn't simply a competition followed by everyone going home.
We’re building an entire evening around it. Guests can expect the Miss Savannah Pride Pageant, a full drag show featuring special guest performances, DJ entertainment, food, cocktails, pageantry, surprises and — of course — the crowning of Miss Savannah Pride 2026.
This year's event honors reigning 2025 queen Myah Ross Monroe as Savannah prepares to crown her successor. The pageant itself celebrates the things we love most about drag competition: creativity, presentation, talent, glamour, personality and the ability to completely command a room.
But this night is about something bigger than competition -It's a celebration of 26 years of Savannah drag history.
Miss Savannah Pride 2026 Tickets
We've intentionally created two ways to experience the evening!
General Admission — $25
General admission includes entry to the Miss Savannah Pride Pageant, the evening’s drag show and special guest performances, DJ entertainment and heavy hors d'oeuvres. A cash bar will also be available.
Limited Reserved Table Seating — $45
Want the upgraded experience?
We have a very limited amount of reserved seating includes your own table seating area, one complimentary drink, specialty food offerings and a reserved viewing area for the evening’s pageant, performances and festivities.
And this part matters:
Space this year is extremely limited.
Because the pageant is being presented in a more intimate venue, ticket availability is restricted by seating, venue capacity and food-and-beverage service. -Once the room is full, it's full!
If Miss Savannah Pride has been part of your Savannah tradition — or if you've always wanted to experience the pageant for yourself — this is the year to be in the room.
Be there for Year 26. 👑
Why Miss Savannah Pride Matters: 26 Years of Queens, Community & Savannah History
Miss Savannah Pride didn’t begin as some polished corporate event. Its roots reach back to the earliest days of Savannah Pride itself. Georgia State University’s LGBTQ archives preserve video from Savannah’s first annual Pride Weekend in 2000, including an awards dinner and drag show inside Club One. Another surviving recording from that weekend captures performers including Kristina Foxx, Tiffany Dubois, Christiana Sinclair, Raven, Chanel Stevens, Dawn Dupree and Destiny Michaels, along with an interview with Savannah icon The Lady Chablis.
Think about that for a second!
Before Pride in Savannah became the public celebration visitors know today, some of its history was being written inside a gay nightclub, under stage lights, by drag entertainers and community members who simply showed up and built something- And the pageant grew right alongside it.
A surviving 2006 First City Network Pride calendar lists the Miss Savannah Pride Pageant at Club One as part of a full slate of Pride events leading into Savannah Pride weekend. By 2008, the ninth annual Savannah Pride Festival was introducing newly crowned Miss Savannah Pride Blair Williams and Mr. Savannah Pride Justin Sane to the community as they began their terms. So this crown has never been only about who looks best under a spotlight. It represents Savannah drag, Pride, service, performance and community.
A Crown With Some Serious Alumni!
Look through the history of Miss Savannah Pride and you start recognizing names that went on to leave their mark far beyond one pageant night. Blair Williams, crowned Miss Savannah Pride in 2008, later reached one of the highest achievements in American drag pageantry when she became Miss Gay America 2015. The Miss Gay America organization notes that Blair made history as the first winner to have previously held every alternate placement — fourth, third, second and first — before ultimately taking the national crown. She would also become a longtime Club One Cabaret show director and host (She is in-fact a community treasure!).
Then there was Tricksie Turner, the stage persona of Savannah native Tim Moore. Tricksie won Miss Savannah Pride in 2013, then went on to capture Miss South Carolina Pride the following year. But the part of her legacy that matters most may have happened away from the competition stage. Moore volunteered throughout Savannah’s LGBTQ community, worked with the Savannah Pride board and created the Tricksie Turner Dream in Color Scholarship Fund to support LGBTQ high-school seniors. After his death in 2018, friends and community members continued raising money for the scholarship in his memory- That is what carrying a crown can mean.
The titleholder history also includes Zoe Sims (2007), Nala Couture Alexandria (2012), Chi Chi Bonet Sherrington (2014), Champagne (2015) and Evelyn Caldwell (2016) among the documented winners from the pageant’s earlier years.
And those names aren't simply sitting in an archive.
Chi Chi Bonet Sherrington became a fixture of Savannah drag, performing around the Southeast while creating and hosting her own competitions and shows at Club One. She is a present day force in the Savannah drag community!
More recently, Sallie Just Sallie captured Miss Savannah Pride 2022 in the same year Connect Savannah readers named her Best Local Drag Queen. She has since continued performing in Savannah nightlife and theater, including as part of Savannah Cabaret.
Malcriada followed as Miss Savannah Pride 2023, recognized by Savannah Pride Center for the detailed looks, creativity and performance style that earned her the crown.
And Olivia Knowles, Miss Savannah Pride 2024, brought an international résumé to the title. Olivia has performed professionally for more than two decades, headlined illusion shows aboard Royal Caribbean ships that reached audiences in more than 38 countries, held numerous pageant titles, appeared in DRAG: The Book and the documentary The Queens, and performed in more than 100 nightclubs and theaters.
Today, that lineage leads to reigning Miss Savannah Pride 2025 Myah Ross Monroe, whom we will honor as another entertainer prepares to take her place in that history on October 3. The official 2026 event listing identifies Monroe as the reigning queen being honored at this year’s pageant.
From Club One to Beyond the Stars
Through much of that history, Club One has been the pageant’s home. The relationship between Savannah Pride, drag and Club One goes all the way back to Savannah’s first Pride Weekend. Decades later, Club One was still hosting the annual Miss Savannah Pride Pageant alongside weekly cabaret performances, national pageants, visiting RuPaul’s Drag Race entertainers and community benefits.
But 2026 is different.
As Club One prepares for its next chapter in a new location, Miss Savannah Pride is leaving those familiar walls for one extraordinary year. And that makes Year 26 feel even more important. We aren't trying to recreate Club One somewhere else. We’re carrying the tradition with us.
On October 3, the pageant moves into The Bolton at 12 W. Liberty Street in downtown Savannah for Miss Savannah Pride 2026: BEYOND THE STARS. Contestants will compete in futuristic Presentation, Evening Wear, Talent and Q&A before one entertainer becomes the newest name in this remarkable line of Savannah queens.
For one night, we get to bring together the people who remember the pageant years ago, the entertainers carrying Savannah drag today, and guests who may be experiencing Miss Savannah Pride for the very first time.
From Pride Weekend at Club One in 2000.
From Zoe.
From Blair.
From Tricksie.
From Chi Chi.
From Sallie.
From Malcriada.
From Olivia.
From Myah.
And from countless performers, bartenders, organizers, volunteers and audience members whose names may never have appeared on a crown but who kept Savannah's queer community showing up for one another year after year.
Miss Savannah Pride isn't leaving its history behind.
We're taking that history with us — Beyond the Stars.
Planning a Trip for Savannah Pride 2026?
If you're coming to Savannah for Pride this October, October 3 is only the beginning.
Savannah's official Pride celebrations continue throughout the month, culminating with the Savannah Pride Festival on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at Forsyth Park. Visit Savannah currently lists the festival from 12 PM until 11 PM, with entertainment, vendors, food trucks, community organizations, art and other activities.
The Savannah Pride Center has announced Chosen Family as the theme for Savannah Pride 2026.
And once the Pride Festival ends?
Oh, honey.
We're not going home.
Savannah Shenanigans and Glow Entertainment are launching The Glow Bar Crawl: Savannah Pride After Dark immediately following the festival — a late-night, Brazilian carnival-inspired Pride party moving through downtown Savannah with local queens, glow gear, body paint, games, prizes and four bar stops before finishing the night at Congress Street Social Club.
So if you're planning a Savannah Pride 2026 trip, you may want to save more than one date:
👑 October 3 — Miss Savannah Pride 2026
🌈 October 24 — Savannah Pride Festival at Forsyth Park
✨ October 24 — The Glow Bar Crawl: Savannah Pride After Dark
October in Savannah is going to be very gay — exactly how we like it.
Who Is Producing Miss Savannah Pride 2026?
The 2026 Miss Savannah Pride Pageant is presented by Club One and produced by Glow Entertainment. Savannah Shenanigans Tours is bringing its events and entertainment experience to the production through Glow Entertainment, its event-production operation.
For Savannah Shenanigans, producing Miss Savannah Pride is about more than putting another event on the calendar. We're proud to have the opportunity to help carry forward something that belongs to Savannah's drag community.
Our job is simple: Respect the history. Celebrate the queens. Fill the room. And put on one hell of a show.
Miss Savannah Pride 2026 — Event Details
Saturday, October 3, 2026
The Bolton12 W. Liberty Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
Doors Open: 6:00 PM-Pageant: 7:00 PM
General Admission: $25
Limited Reserved Table Seating: $45
COME FOR THE CROWN. STAY FOR THE SPECTACLE.
Come dressed up.
Come ready to cheer.
Come celebrate the past, the present and whoever takes that crown next.
Be there for Year 26. 👑
P.S. -A Special Thank You to The Bolton on Liberty
An event like Miss Savannah Pride doesn’t happen without people who believe in what you’re creating — and this year, we are incredibly grateful to have The Bolton on Liberty as our venue partner.
From the beginning, their team has met us with kindness, professionalism, flexibility, and genuine excitement for this event. When you’re producing a night with this many moving pieces — contestants, entertainers, food, music, staging, guests, and 26 years of history to honor — having a venue team that makes your job easier is something you don’t take for granted.
And the space itself? Absolutely beautiful!
Located in the heart of Savannah’s Historic District, The Bolton on Liberty is a newly reimagined wedding and special-event venue inside a historic 1945 former service station. The venue describes itself as a “blank slate with character,” with a built-in bar, tables and chairs, flexible vendor policies, and space for celebrations of up to 135 guests.
For Miss Savannah Pride, they have opened their doors to us during an especially exciting time for the venue, and we truly appreciate them making room for this celebration and helping us create something worthy of Year 26.
That kind of partnership matters.
And to our brides… take note.
If you’re reading this while planning a Savannah wedding, reception, rehearsal dinner, shower, or downtown celebration, put The Bolton on Liberty on your venue list.
The property sits right in downtown Savannah beneath the city’s famous moss-draped oaks, and its flexible event model includes a generous 16-hour full-day rental window, an open-vendor policy, a statement built-in bar, and the ability for clients to supply their own alcohol without an additional venue fee. The Bolton also explicitly welcomes all couples, which makes this partnership especially meaningful to us.
It’s elegant without feeling stuffy, historic without feeling dated, and flexible enough that you can actually make the celebration feel like yours.
We’re proud to call The Bolton on Liberty the home of Miss Savannah Pride 2026 for this very special year — and even more grateful for the people behind the space who are helping us bring it to life.
To The Bolton team: thank you for welcoming us, supporting our vision, and helping us give Savannah a night to remember. We can’t wait to fill your beautiful space with queens, crowns, chosen family, and a whole lot of Pride. 🌈
For couples searching for a downtown Savannah wedding venue, you can learn more about The Bolton on Liberty and schedule a private tour through their official venue page.
