By Delayna Earley
The Island News
The second annual Lowcountry PRIDE Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9 at Live Oaks Park in Port Royal.
The festival will feature local vendors, a bounce house, and booths supporting local nonprofit organizations.
Music will be provided by Groove Town Assault.
The festival is hosted by Lowcountry PRIDE, which is a nonprofit organization that serves the LGBTQIA+ community in Beaufort County.
Local food trucks will be on site selling food such to festivalgoers.
According to a post made to the event’s Facebook page, Lowcountry Lobster, Diced Pineapple, Lawyers BBQ and Sweets, LLC, Golden Sun Filipino Cuisine, Kathryn’s Sweets and Sunset Slush Hilton Head have all confirmed to be there selling food such as lobster rolls, oxtails and jerk chicken, BBQ, chicken adobo and lumpia, Italian ices and cupcakes.
For more information about the event, go to www.lowcountrypride.org.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.