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The Grape Harvest Festival is the most important popular celebration in Mendoza and in the country. At this province in the Cuyo region, the grape harvest festivities are part of the folklore that manages to get winegrowers, as well as the workers of the vine and the soil, and the rest of society together.

A popular festival indeed, the grape harvest in Mendoza has all the necessary ingredients (magic, customs, hope, rites, superstition, beliefs, meals, festivals and more) for the ritual to be repeated and to have more and more followers year after year. What started inside each winery was later supported by various areas in the government and the most prestigious institutions in the province, which soon led this celebration to be considered as the National Grape Harvest Festival.
Ever since 1936, and with increasing attendance year after year, various moments have become the protagonists: from the Fruit Blessing to the night parade of the districts queens in their floats along the streets of the capital city.

Once the traditional Grape Harvest celebrations at the Frank Romero Day Greek Theater finish, both the viewers from Mendoza and ocasional tourists slowly begin to retire from this beautiful natural amphitheater in order to return to their homes or hotels to comment on the magnitude of what they have just experienced.
Nevertheless, the passing of time has set the trend to continue with the celebrations all night long and this habit has gained more and more followers. There have been several ideas for the festival to continue for hours on end.
This is how one of the most avant-garde and glamorous shows began. In the last few years, it has gained enough recognition to be included in the grape harvest festival agenda.

We are referring to the Gay Grape Harvest Festival.
Without discriminating anybody for their sexual condition and, much on the contrary, trying to make all attendants feel at ease and comfortable, both men and women perform, dance and present an extraordinary show on stage.

Hosted by the most prestigious icons in the gay community and with excellent quick-change and avant-garde artists, both male and female, on stage, the celebrations include the election of their own Grape Harvest queen.
Respected by most members of the community in Mendoza, this real festivity is, in a way, the official closing of an entire week in which the effort of man, the weather harshness and everything related to winemaking is shown.

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