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Heaven is a place on earth — and the Utah Pride Festival will be a bit closer to that place.

Singer and '80s pop icon Belinda Carlisle will headline the annual festival, with a performance on Sunday, June 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Library Square, in downtown Salt Lake City.

Carlisle rocketed to fame in 1981, as lead singer of The Go-Go's. The all-female pop-rock band's first album "Beauty and the Beat" produced the hits "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed." The band released two more albums in the '80s — "Vacation" (1982) and "Talk Show" (1984) — that yielded the hit singles as "Vacation" and "Head Over Heels."

When The Go-Go's disbanded in 1985, Carlisle went solo. She has released seven studio albums, plus compilations — and scored with the singles "Mad About You," "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and "I Get Weak." The Go-Go's reunited briefly in 2001, and will get back together for a tour this fall.

Carlisle has been an activist for LGBT rights. This week, Carlisle wrote an open letter to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, chastising him for "making life hell on earth for many Mississippians" after he signed anti-LGBT legislation into law. In the letter, Carlisle — who chose not to cancel a performance Saturday in Biloxi — declared herself "the very proud mother of a gay child." (Her son, James Duke Mason, is a city official in West Hollywood, Calif., and a prominent young LGBT advocate.)

The Utah Pride Festival will also honor four people with Pride Icon awards (formerly known as the Grand Marshal awards), representing the past, present and future of Utah's LGBTQ community. This year's recipients are:

• Connell O'Donovan, who organized Salt Lake City's first Pride marches, in 1990 and 1991, and documented LGBTQ stories for the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society and Archives of Utah.

• Christopher and Teinamarrie Scuderi, longtime allies of the LGBT community and two of the co-founders of Transgender Education Advocates of Utah.

• Jimmy Lee, a community builder and educator who self-identifies as "a 23-year-old queer non-binary person of color."

The Utah Pride Festival runs June 3-5 at Library Square. Passes are $5 for Friday's events, $10 for either Saturday or Sunday, or $20 for a three-day pass. For $50, one can buy an "Emerald Pass" that includes admission to the Emerald Garden VIP area, and a T-shirt and commemorative lanyard. Passes are available on the festival's website.