OUTscene America (PRE-view) San Diego Gay Pride lands Margaret Cho for festival performance!

The famously blunt and unapologetic comedian Margaret Cho will headline at the San Diego Pride Festival this year, taking the main stage at Marston Point in Balboa Park on July 16, 2011 as the final act in a full-day performance roster.


Cho, who recently appeared on season 11 of Dancing with the Stars and is gearing up for a U.K. tour touting her 2011 Grammy-nominated comedy album, Cho Dependent, has long endeared herself to the LGBT community thanks to her fierce stance against homophobia, anti-gay political movements and LGBT bullying.

A professional comedian for nearly 20 years, Cho got her start on late-night television and made it big with hits like her 1999 Broadway show, I’m The One That I Want and the 2008 VHI series The Cho Show.

Tickets for San Diego Pride are $15 a day or $25 for a two-day ticket if purchased before June 30, and $20-$30 thereafter. Find out more about the festival at http://www.sandiegopride.org/