Mariah Hanson is the founder and producer of The Dinah – largest & longest-running LGBTQ+ event & Music Festival for queer women in the world.
Turning 33 this year, The Dinah is a unique invitation to revel in the sense of unity and community that permeates the event and embark on a journey into a world of empowerment and inclusivity where true selves are celebrated.
A celebration that is completed and heightened each year by the incredible line up of talents headlining the event.
And if the past two decades have seen The Dinah take a commanding place in the music festival market, it is all thanks to the event’s founder and producer, Mariah Hanson – the creative mind fueling the magic.
Hanson has provided for over 3 decades a safe space for queer women to live out loud and be free to be their authentic selves.
The growth and longevity of the event is all the more astonishing and remarkable at a time when lesbian bars, LGBTQ+ spaces, festivals and publications are rampantly vanishing all across the country.
Queer spaces are sadly disappearing because they are not supported.
In many cities, bars are the only spaces where LGBTQ+ people can come together, but for queer women, these spaces are now almost nonexistent, leaving an already isolated community even more alone. In the face of the current political climate and in this crucial election year, LGBTQ+ people will find it important to have places where they can be with other LGBTQ people.
Events like The Dinah are essential to recharge and reconnect the community.
With an impressive repertoire featuring some of the past three decades’ most influential superstars (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Bebe Rexha, Iggy Azalea & Meghan Trainor among others), not to mention prominent spots on hugely popular TV shows including Showtime’s The L Word, ABC’s Jeopardy!, Hulu’s Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne and more recently, Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love, The Dinah has certainly assured its place in the pop culture canon.
Exactly like nothing else!
The event continues to make history making phenomenal strides on LGBTQ+ representation, capturing year after year the vibrant, bold, and outspoken queer artists part of a new generation who celebrate queerness unfiltered and in a stentorian way.
And this year is no different with Lauren Jauregui, Iniko, KiNG MALA, Lauren Sanderson, Whitney Peyton, Lucy & La Mer, and Sherrelle Holmes headlining.
For the past 33 years, Mariah Hanson has continuously managed to elicit an authentic expression of the LGBTQ+ community perfectly capturing the alchemy and enduring beauty of the queer community’s individuality and diversity and set The Dinah as the quintessential rite of passage for queer women.
And most importantly, The Dinah has been providing the LGBTQ community a safe space to come together.
Exactly like nothing else!
The event continues to make history making phenomenal strides on LGBTQ+ representation, capturing year after year the vibrant, bold, and outspoken queer artists part of a new generation who celebrate queerness unfiltered and in a stentorian way.
And this year is no different with Lauren Jauregui, Iniko, KiNG MALA, Lauren Sanderson, Whitney Peyton, Lucy & La Mer, and Sherrelle Holmes headlining.
For the past 33 years, Mariah Hanson has continuously managed to elicit an authentic expression of theLGBTQ+ community perfectly capturing the alchemy and enduring beauty of the queer community’s individuality and diversity, and set The Dinah as the quintessential rite of passage for queer women.
And most importantly, The Dinah has been providing the LGBTQ community a safe space to come together.
