Mel C may be heading up Pride’s roster of live entertainment (Wellesley Stage, June 28, 6pm), but the ex–Spice Girl isn’t the only one bringing flavour to the week.

This year Church Street will be lined with seven music stages featuring a range of performances from gospel and rock to queer pop, electro-pop, dirty pop and every other kind of pop. However, in typical Pride fashion, it’s the catalogue of top-notch DJs that will keep the gaybourhood sweating until last call at 4am.

Kicking off Pride Week on June 20, CiRCA (126 John) hosts the You Got Glittered party with Posso the DJ, Radioclit and DJ Jamal. Meanwhile, in the heart of Church, Woody’s (467 Church) has the boys of Boytech arousing the Official Launch Party.

Aside from a few weekday shows, the party doesn’t really get started until the following Friday, June 27 when “barely legal rapper” Leif rocks the Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen W.) with fellow New Yorker Congorock. If that doesn’t float your boat, check out DJ Cedric Gervais, who will be spinning house and electro at Footwork Bar’s (425 Adelaide W.) third annual BITCHSLAP! party the same night.

Saturday (June 28) will have you jogging from stage to stage, so remember to keep hydrated when Nik Red steams things up at the George Hislop Park Stage at 10:15pm. Also, don’t miss the infamous Kelly and the Kellygirls (Wellesley Stage, 7:30pm) as their ska-meets-fab-meets-swing music is only made better by lead singer R. Kelly Clipperton’s baritone vocals. Other notables include Dragonette (Wellesley Stage, 9:50pm), Vernessa Mitchell (Central Stage, 8pm) and the Diva herself, Divinesque (Wellesley Stage, 7:15pm).

Also next Saturday night, check out The Hidden Cameras (South Stage, 11pm), one of Canada’s best-known queer bands, who played an early gig six years ago on Pride’s Fruit Loopz stage. The place to be after Church Street’s stages close up shop is the queer hip-hop party Big Primpin’ at the Drake. This notoriously bad-ass party will have the equally notorious Wendy Ho doin’ her thang while stealin’ yo purse.

MEN, the new project from two members of Le Tigre, is the must-see event at the South Stage on Sunday (June 29) afternoon (4pm). Other highlights include electro art punks Kids on TV (South Stage, 3pm), the people’s DJ Jelo (South Stage, 10pm) and dance-pop vocalist Suzanne Palmer (Central Stage, 7pm).

To close out the wild weekend, head over to CiRCA’s Last Dance, Pride’s inaugural fest-ending bash where a lineup featuring some of the week’s top artists will be headed up by RuPaul.