While we want you to live your best life, we also want to keep Purple around for years to come and it’s getting more and more difficult with each year. Attendee behavior is the one thing that can limit our growth or even prevent us from doing events at all. The future of Purple is literally in your hands. We were lucky enough to be invited back to our premier venues and we would like the ability to return year after year. After twenty years of hard work, Purple has evolved into a world-class event hosted in the best venues Dallas has to offer. However, access to these exciting and prestigious venues is a privilege, and we take that privilege seriously. We hope you do too. We are not trying to limit your fun, there is a time and place for practically everything—but we have to eliminate the most severe occurrences for which the Foundation is ultimately responsible for and for which we can be held liable. Although the Dallas-area is largely liberal and accepting, we live and operate our non-profit organization in a state where LGBTQIA+ rights are in a state of regression. Below are some reasonable (and pretty simple) guidelines we are asking our attendees to follow. Please understand these are essentially the same polices we’ve always had. Very little has changed over the years, and they are similar policies that most dance festivals in the U.S. have and enforce, gay or straight. The vast majority of you already adhere to this without you ever even realizing it—that’s how painless they are. With that said, please keep in mind the following:

• ZERO TOLERANCE for possession or obvioususe of illegal substances. You will be removed from the venue immediately, and your wristband cut off and deactivated.

• ZERO TOLERANCE for explicit or overtly sexual behavior in plain sight. You will be removed from the venue immediately, and your wristband cut off and deactivated.

• We know you want to show off those incredible bodies, but leave a little bit of mystery and please refrain from anything more revealing than a thong.

• There is no clothes check at any of our events. Please don’t ask if we can hold your clothes.

• No re-entry for general admission (only VIP has re-entry at most events).

• Be patient, understanding, and respectful of our staff, production crews, and especially our volunteers.

• Purple Foundation reserves the right to remove anyone from the premises, for any reason, without a refund.

• Purple Foundation is a nonprofit organization and our primary goal is to raise money for our beneficiaries and make a difference in our community. Please help us achieve that goal. Please help us have a smooth, fun, and incident-free weekend this year and every year. Together, we can do it.

We want everyone to be able to capture and share those moments of joy while creating happy memories throughout this fun-filled weekend. We ask that everyone do so in a manner that is respectful and responsible. We want you to be aware and considerate of everyone's right to privacy. We request that attendees not post ANYTHING of a sexually explicit or illegal nature from our event(s) that could identify Purple, its board members, staff/volunteers, vendors, venues, and/or associates to any online public/private or social media space. Doing so puts our venues and our organization in very difficult position. Violation of this policy will result in the removal from and forfeiture of all Purple events for the rest of the weekend and the pursuit of any other remedies necessary. Please understand, the negative implications of doing such an act, could affect our organization's ability to continue to produce events, obtain sponsorships, and raise funding for our beneficiaries. So, please be mindful of your posts and the effect(s) they can have on others. Thank you in advance for understanding and helping us be memorable for all the right reasons.

We know many of y’all like to be ”ready for action” anytime and anywhere, including the dance floor but after a handful of lost venues (yep, including Coliseum) we are forced to take the extreme step and publicly ban Trimix (and any other similar ED treatment) at our events. It’s ridiculous, we know. But even more ridiculous is having to explain this fun little aspect of gay circuit subculture to venues that do not understand and do not want it in their venues. Do you know how rare suitable venues are that are willing and able to host events such as ours? They are harder to find than a “dom top” that can host that isn’t creepy. Practically impossible! How do they know it’s in their venues and why is it a problem? Other than everyone walking around with a banana in their pocket (which actually isn’t the problem), they don’t have to look much further than on the floor of the bathroom, dance floor, and wherever else we leave syringes because we just can’t seem to dispose of them properly and discretely. It is highly unsanitary, dangerous, and medical waste disposal typically requires a properly trained and equipped hazmat team, not to mention it’s just gross. We simply can’t continue our events without eliminating this problem and we can’t grow or evolve either. This is one of many challenges we face every year, so please leave it at home or the hotel room. Anyone caught with it or anything that looks like it outside of their hotel room will have their wristband cut off and deactivated. No exceptions. If you are a Type 1 diabetic, please bring appropriate documentation. A photo of your prescription or note from your physician would be accepted.