The Festival will also host 300 exhibitors looking to promote their products and services (which obviously means tons of free stuff). It includes three stages of national and local talent, including headliners like Marshmello, Zara Larsson, and Todrick Hall.
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Make sure to check out the annual Pride Festival on Sunday, June 9 for a full day of entertainment, music, food, and more. More than 200 organizations will be participating in the parade this year, commemorating LGBT+ history and supporting the community through floats, banners, entertainment, and more. This year’s theme not only holds historical significance, but comes at a very on-brand time given the current state of our political climate: a time to “shhhOUT! proudly about our past, our present, and most definitely as we move forward into the future!”Ĭheck out the official calendar to see a complete list of events, but make sure to leave some energy for the main event - the Pride Parade. It was only a few years after the riots that Washington, DC held its first Pride celebration in 1972, with annual celebrations beginning in 1975 and continuing ever since. This year’s theme of “shhhOUT: Past, Present & Proud” pays homage to the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City - a pivotal moment in history that helped catalyze the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world. Organized annually by The Capital Pride Alliance, events such as the popular Pride Parade, Festival, and Block Party are back, and all happening on the weekend of Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9. (The Associated Press contributed to this report.Order those spandex shorts you’ve had in your cart for the last month, and make those last-minute brunch reservations: It’s time for Pride 2019 in DC. It was designed by artist Anthony Goicolea, of Brooklyn.Ĭuomo formed the commission to come up with an LGBT memorial after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
It has nine boulders with pieces of glass installed in them that can act as prisms and reflect rainbows in sunlight. Cuomo officially unveiled the monument in Hudson River Park in Manhattan. To coincide with the event, a New York state memorial to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people that honors victims of intolerance opened to the public on Sunday.
March organizers honored "community heroes" including Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor Emma Gonzales. Watch our coverage of the 2018 NYC Pride March New York City 2018 Pride March ( 1 of 13) The NYPD says there is no credible threat, but thousands of uniformed and plain clothes officers were along the march route, along with 100 blocker cars and sand trucks. Security was tight, with barricades up along the march route on Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, both Democrats, were among those attending the march. Olivia Nadler, a Connecticut resident attending her third parade, said "people that are oppressed are not going to go away, they're not going to be quiet, they're not going to be ignored."Įlected officials, including New York Gov. Whether it's immigrants, whether it's queer people or people of color, we're not going to put up with what this administration is doing," said Diego Molano of Queens, at his second pride parade. "We're making a statement that we're here, everybody. They also spoke out against policies aimed at other communities, like immigrants and minorities. Onlookers and participants in New York noted those origins at Sunday's event, which was both a celebration of the diversity of LGBT culture and a statement against anti-LGBT policies promoted by President Donald Trump, such as the Republican president's attempt to ban all transgender people from serving in the military. The event commemorates the riots that erupted in response to a police raid at a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.