New York City’s LGBTQ community is traditionally Manhattan’s West Village and Chelsea, but is everywhere today. New York is a creative city, so it is very gay.
Black and Latin communities started voguing in Harlem ballrooms of the 1920s. The Stonewall Riots at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 energized the Pride Movement.
LGBTQ Festivals
New York City’s big LGBTQ festivals are Pride Month in June and Pride Week in the last week of June. Many events buildup to the Pride Parade which commemorates the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
NYC Pride Parade 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021 🏳️🌈
NYC Pride 2020 goes Virtual
Sunday, June 28, 2020
WABC Channel 7, abc7ny.com & ABC News Live streaming
PrideFest 2019 LGBT street fair in the East Village
Sunday, June 30, 2019
LGBT Street Fair
EAST VILLAGE ~ NYC Pride’s annual street fair with StageFest, Mural Market, FoodFest & KidFest is headlined by Princess Nokia
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NYC Pride Parade 2019 Stonewall 50
Sunday, June 30, 2019
LGBT Pride Parade
FLATIRON, CHELSEA, GREENWICH VILLAGE, WEST VILLAGE, CHELSEA ~ Show your Pride
Tease NYC Pride
An evening of interactive burlesque with 1,200 women from across the country.
The DL
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Stand your ground at the NYC Pride Rally
Stonewall National Monument
Christopher Park
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Friday, June 22, 2018
FREE
LGBT New York City
The West Village and Chelsea are NYC’s traditional LGBT neighborhoods. Years ago, people who came out gay were often thrown out of the house by their families. These kids set up house on the abandoned West Side piers. Eventually the neighborhoods nearby became LGBTQ communities.
Christopher Street is New York’s iconic LGBTQ street. The Stonewall Riots in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in the West Village didn’t start the LGBTQ movement, but energized it.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center or just “The Center” in the West Village is one of New York City’s leading LGBTQ community centers.
Latin Gayness
The Latin world has an interesting relationship with its own gayness. Latins tend to be machista (male chauvinists) which is very anti-gay. Yet the Latin world has strong LGBTQ communities. Go figure?
Anyway, those who complain most loudly about LGBTQ issues are more often than not in the closet themselves. Lacking the courage to be who they are, closeted types become public critics.
Past LGBTQ Culture
Edna Vázquez is Not our Father’s Mariachi
Saturday, October 5, 2019
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
FREE
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall
La Golondrina
Friday-Sunday, September 27-October 13, 2019
THALIA SPANISH THEATER
Sunnyside, Queens
Playwright Guillem Clua uses the famous Mexican song ‘The Swallow’ as a metaphor for being true to yourself
Dominican Day Parade 2019 Desfile Dominicano
Sunday, August 11, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Share your Dominican Pride with 10,000 marchers on Sixth Avenue from 35th St to 56th St
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Baile Funk Brasil SummerFest Closing Party
Saturday, August 3, 2019
BUSHWICK, Brooklyn ~ Brasil SummerFest closes another great season with Baile Funk, the party music of Rio favelas. Batekoo, Omulu and Marginal Men will make da bunda (bootie) shake at Elsewhere Rooftop.
PEN World Voices Festival 2019
May 6-14 & 19, 2019 | International literary festival | The world’s writers and thinkers gather in New York City to talk and read and perform
DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival
November 8 – 15, 2018
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IFC Center, SVA Theatre & Cinepolis
West Village & Chelsea, Manhattan
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America’s largest documentary film festival presents over 300 films and events with 42 world premieres and 17 U.S. premieres
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African – American, Brazilian, Honduran, Indigenous, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish films
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Tanghetto plays ElectroTango
MIDSUMMER NIGHT SWING, Damrosch Park Lincoln Center 💃🏽🎪Thursday, July 5, 2018
PrideFest 2018 is NYC Pride’s Street Fair
University Place
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Sunday, June 24, 2018
FREE
Pride Parade NYC 2018 Pride Week
Sunday, June 24, 2018
LGBT parade
Greenwich Village, Union Square, Flatiron & NoMad, Manhattan
Pride Island 2018 is the legendary Dance on the Pier
Pier 97 (West 57th St)
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Swedish pop star Tove Lo
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Australian diva Kyle Minogue
Sunday, June 24, 2018
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Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at 205 Hudson Gallery
A touring show from the Getty Museum’s Latino art exhibition ‘Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’
205 Hudson Gallery
Tribeca, Manhattan
Wednesday – Sunday
June 21 – August 19, 2018
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Dance Parade 2018
FLATIRON, UNION SQUARE, VILLAGE, EAST VILLAGE | Sat, May 19, 2018 | African, Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Cuban, Dominican, French, Haitian, Italian, Puerto Rican dances and more
Disobedience
The latest by the Academy Award-winning Argentine – Chilean director of ‘A Fantastic Woman’ and ‘Gloria.’
April 27 – July 12, 2018
Ballet Hispánico Spring 2018 Season at The Joyce
Works by Spanish, Colombian, and Mexican choreographers, including two world premieres that salute the beloved Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
April 10 – 15, 2018
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Doc Fortnight 2018
MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, Manhattan
Daily February 15 – 26, 2018
A Fantastic Woman
Marina, a waitress and singer, faces rejection while mourning the death of her boyfriend. By Argentine – Chilean director Sebastián Lelio.
February 2 – May 17, 2018
Call Me by Your Name
Oscar Winner Best Adapted Screenplay
4 Oscar Nominations
3 Golden Globe Nominations
1 SAG Awards Nomination
November 24, 2017 – May 24, 2018
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