NYC Pride Parade 2025 is the climax of New York City’s June festival of LGBTQ+ culture. It celebrates the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 which energized the Pride Movement.
NYC Pride Parade 2025
NYC Pride is a series of events that reach a climax with Youth Pride, the NYC Pride Parade (Pride March), and PrideFest street fair.
2025 Theme
This year’s theme is “Rise Up: Pride in Protest.”
This year’s celebarations are a little weird because of the way our own government suddenly turned against the American people. That makes it all the more important to celebrate Pride. When governments fail, the people band together to survive. The LGBTQ+ community has moved mountains before and will move mountains again. Keep Pride and Carry On.
Come to think of it, Pride has always been about standing up to the bully. We just want to be left alone to live our lives as we choose. That is supposed to be what our country is about.
2025 Grand Marshals
- Karine Jean-Pierre was Joe Biden’s White House press secretary. She is a Caribbean from Martinique. @k_jeanpierre 🇲🇶 🏳️🌈
- Marti Gould Cummings is a New York drag artist. 🏳️🌈
- DJ Lina Bradford, “Princess of Light” is a Black trans woman who is a popular Fire Island Pines DJ. @thelinabradford 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈
- Elisa Crespo is a New York Puerto Rican activist. @elisacresponyc 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
- Trans.formative.Schools is a free afterschool program for LGBTQ+ youth. @trans.formative.schools 🏳️🌈
Fundraiser
The NYC Pride Drag Brunch Fundraiser features Grand Marshal Marti Gould Cummings and other entertainment at Stella 34 Trattoria, an Italian restaurant in Macy’s Herald Square, Manhattan; on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 11am. From $40. 🏳️🌈
NYC Pride needs our support more than ever before.
Youth Pride 2025
The Youth Pride block party connects LGBTQ+ youth and their families with community resources in a fun street fair with games, performances, and snacks; at South Street Seaport Museum on Pier 16 and The Seaport on Pier 17; on Saturday June 28, 2025 at 12pm. Free with rsvp. 🏳️🌈
31st PrideFest 2025
PrideFest, NYC Pride’s street fair, features exhibitors, food for sale, and fun activities organized as StageFest, FamilyFest, CommunityFest, and FoodFest; in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Sunday, June 29, 2025, from 11am to 6pm. Free. 🏳️🌈
NYC Pride Parade 2025
The 56th NYC Pride Parade 2025 forms at Fifth Avenue and 26th St, marches down Fifth Avenue from 25th St, turns west on 8th Street, jogs up Greenwich Avenue, passes the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street, heads up Seventh Avenue to the end at 15th Street; on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 12noon. Some years the parade ends around 6pm, and some years it doesn’t end until late. The Village and Chelsea will be rocking into the wee hours. FREE. 🏳️🌈
Grandstand seating is available on eventbrite.com
The Parade route tends to be packed like sardines in a can. Last time we went to the Pride Parade, we got carried along by the crowd, with our feet floating above the ground. It’s all fun. Just prepare for the crowds.
NYC Pride Parade 2024
NYC Pride is a series of events that reach a climax with the NYC Pride Parade and PrideFest street fair.
This year brings some changes to the program. The Pride Rally civil rights conference and Pride Island music festival are cancelled. The Youth Pride street fair, and Bliss Days LGBTQ+Womxn party carry on. New official events include the Criminal Queerness Theatre Festival.
55th NYC Pride Parade 2024
The 55th NYC Pride Parade 2024 (NYC Pride March) marches down Fifth Avenue from 25th St; on Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 12noon. Some years the parade ends around 6pm, and some years it doesn’t end until late. The Village and Chelsea will be rocking into the wee hours. FREE. 🏳️🌈
NYC Pride Parade Theme
This year’s theme is “Reflect. Empower. Unite.”
So this is about individual freedom, but in the context of the community at large. The LGBTQ+ community made social progress farther and faster than almost any other community, but the backlash has been harsh. It’s worth taking a breath to consider how we move forward together, not as a separate community, but as an integral part of the American fabric.
NYC Pride Parade Route
- Starts at Fifth Avenue at 28th St in NoMad, and marches down Fifth Avenue through the Flatiron and Union Square to Greenwich Village.
- Turns west on 8th St
- Crosses Sixth Avenue to Christopher St in the West Village, and passes the Stonewall National Monument
- Turns north on Seventh Avenue, passes the New York City AIDS Memorial, and ends at 16th St in Chelsea.
You can watch the NYC Pride Parade on ABC-7. Grandstand seats are available for $175. eventbrite.com
2024 is both the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and the 40th Anniversary of Heritage of Pride, the producers of NYC Pride.
NYC PrideFest 2024
NYC PrideFest 2024 is an LGBTQ+ street fair with vendors, food, activities, and entertainment in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Sunday, June 30, 2024, from 11am – 6pm. FREE with items for purchase. 🏳️🌈
NYC Bliss Days 2024
NYC Bliss Days 2024 is an LGBTQ+Womxn party at The DL rooftop lounge in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 2pm. From $35. 🏳️🌈
This is a benefit for NYC Pride events.
NYC Pride
Every year, millions of spectators watch more than 700 groups marching in pride. It gets very crowded, especially in Greenwich Village and the West Village. One year, we got swept away in the crowd. That’s a strange feeling because you’re not really walking, just flowing wherever the crowd goes. But everyone was having such a good time, that it was cool. Just know that the crowds are huge.
The first NYC Pride Parade (NYC Pride March) was held in 1970, the year after the Stonewall Uprising. What started as a community movement has grown into a major civil rights demonstration. Most people call it the NYC Pride Parade, but the organizers call it the NYC Pride March to respect its civil rights origins.
New York is more comfortable with its Queerness than many other places, so this is a great festival. The Stonewall Uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 28 – July 3, 1969 gave a big push to the Pride Movement. This is a celebration of that moment when people stood up against bullying. They just wanted to dance without being harassed. We all want that. If all of us aren’t free, then none of us are free. Show your Pride or show your support!
Information
Heritage of Pride produces Manhattan’s official parade and festival, but there are many Pride events across New York City.