Dance diva Kristine W to perform at Atlanta Pride — and a festival roundup (so far)

Kristine W’s performance comes on Saturday and is part of her tour to promote her new album, “New & Number Ones.” According to the APC, “her new album both celebrates and adds to a legacy that includes her record setting streak of most consecutive No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart.”

Atlanta Pride plans to roll out its entire line up in September. But so far the APC has given us a sizable peek into what to expect during the fest in Piedmont Park.

We know about the key music acts. At least most of them.

But what else do we know about the 2012 Atlanta Pride fest?

• The opening night party on Friday, Oct. 12, is at the Georgia Aquarium and tickets are selling fast.

Honorary grand marshals this year are rugby stud and straight ally Ben Cohen, founder of the StandUp Foundation that seeks to eliminate bullying and homophobia in sports; and Stuart Milk, nephew of Harvey Milk, one of the world’s most renowned gay activists who was assassinated in 1978.

Cohen, whose StandUp Foundation is based in Atlanta, is regularly seen at Atlanta events and last year participated with the Atlanta Bucks in the Atlanta Pride parade.

Stuart Milk has made a name for himself in LGBT advocacy and as co-founder and board president of the Harvey Milk Foundation.

• And for the 2012 Atlanta Pride Grand Marshals, the list is impressive and diverse:

• Vandy Beth Glenn, the transgender woman who sued the state of Georgia in federal court and won after she was fired from her job as a legislative editor at the Gold Dome for being transgender;

• Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality and a longtime LGBT and HIV activist;

• Danny Ingram, national president of the American Veterans for Equal Rights;

• Dr. Julie Kubala, a lesbian activist and Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Women’s Studies Institute at Georgia State University;

• Rev. Joshua Noblitt, minister of social justice at Saint Mark United Methodist Church;

• Anita Rae Strange, aka “Blondie,” the city’s infamous stripper at the Clermont Lounge who can squeeze beer cans between her breasts while also advocating openly for LGBT equality;

• the Alpha Chapter of Sigma Omega Phi Fraternity Int., founded for all masculine-identified gay females;

• and the Armorettes, the “Camp Drag Queens of the South” who have raised nearly $2 million for AIDS support services in the past 33 years.

Here’s a taste of what Kristine W has to offer: