Winter Party Festival 2026

The Winter Party Festival is one of the world's most significant LGBTQ+ circuit events — an annual multi-day celebration held on Miami Beach each February, produced by the advocacy organisation SAVE. The festival draws approximately 10,000 gay and queer men and their allies from across the United States, Latin America, Europe, and beyond for a week of beach parties, club events, and community programming. The centrepiece is the Beach Party — a daytime event on Miami Beach that is simultaneously a concert, a circuit party, and a community gathering, with multiple stages, DJs, and the Atlantic Ocean as its backdrop. Additional events include pool parties at major South Beach hotels, club nights at venues across the island, and the Black Party and White Party formats that are standard circuit week programming. What distinguishes Winter Party from a purely commercial circuit event is its organisational base: SAVE uses the revenue to fund advocacy work in Florida, meaning that attending Winter Party is simultaneously a personal celebration and a political contribution to the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in one of the states where that fight is currently most contentious.