AMSTERDAM \u2014 Madonna on Sunday headlined the final night of the World Pride Music Festival in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n
The gay icon took the stage shortly before 2:30 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday) during Club Confessions, a set that MISTR, a telehealth platform that offers free access to PrEP, Doxy PEP, STI testing, and long-term HIV care, organized.<\/p>\n
\u201cMother is here and this is gay heaven,\u201d said Madonna when she took the stage inside Amsterdam\u2019s AFAS Live concert hall that can hold up to 6,000 people.<\/p>\n
Stuart Price, who produced Madonna\u2019s 2005 \u201cConfessions on a Dance Floor\u201d album and \u201cConfessions II,\u201d which debuted on July 2, DJed the set.<\/p>\n
Kylie Minogue made a surprise appearance. She and Madonna performed a new remix of \u201cLove Sensation\u201d from \u201cConfessions II.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Washington Blade video by Michael K. Lavers)<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout my career, I\u2019ve always supported efforts to fight HIV and AIDS, and that fight begins with education and access,\u201d said Madonna in a MISTR press release. \u201cWith MISTR, (CEO) Tristan (Schukraft) is expanding access to HIV prevention and sexual healthcare for everyone. Through this work, he\u2019s helping preserve and strengthen LGBTQ+ spaces while investing in the communities and culture that have long sustained us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minogue in an Instagram post thanked Madonna, Price, Schukraft, and MISTR.<\/p>\n
Madonna\u00a0appeared<\/a>\u00a0at The Abbey in West Hollywood, Calif., in April. Madonna in June\u00a0celebrated<\/a>\u00a0Pride month with a pop-up performance in New York\u2019s Times Square.<\/p>\n Jake Resnicow and Insomniac produced the World Pride Music Festival that also featured Bebe Rexha and Paris Hilton, among others. <\/p>\n \u201cPride has always been about bringing our community together,\u201d\u00a0said Resnicow.\u00a0\u201cAt a moment when too many people are being told to hide or make themselves smaller, gathering openly, joyfully, and without apology matters more than ever. I couldn\u2019t be prouder of what this festival brought to life in Amsterdam \u2014 one dance floor, completely free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM \u2014 Madonna on Sunday headlined the final night of the World Pride Music Festival in Amsterdam. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,41742,332,67045,67056,66994,19967,66486,200,41743,67048,67057],"class_list":["post-139402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-bebe-rexha","tag-featured","tag-insomniac","tag-jake-resnicow","tag-kylie-minogue","tag-madonna","tag-mistr","tag-netherlands","tag-paris-hilton","tag-stuart-price","tag-tristan-schukraft"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117028159900496849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}