New York gay pri para march toward 50th year wh new purpose | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• NYC GAY PRI MARCH 2018 PICS
• NYC PRI 2018: THE BIG APPLE’S BIG GAY PRI MONTH
• NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE

NYC GAY PRI MARCH 2018 PICS

Lols and visors alike n head to the Hudson Hotel’s Drag Queen Bedtime Stori s Library Bar, or browse eye-tchg Pri T-shirts and hats at Bloomgdale’s, llaboratn wh entreprenr E Wilbek’s Native Son iative (which foc on empowerg black gay men). Next week, Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery will open “Intimacy, ” an exhib curated by Stephen Tax that shows work by 30 LGBTQ artists, while the recently expand Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art is stagg a pop-up show this weekend featurg photographs by Lola Flash, who was a pneerg member of activist llective Act Up and has been documentg the LGBTQ muny NYC for more than 30 years. New floats this year clu official entrants om the NFL — featurg openly gay former player Ryan O’Callaghan — and the MLB, spotlightg former umpire Dale Stt and former player Billy Bean.

The gay in is the headler for the DJ-driven weekend-long party once known as Dance on the Pier. NEW YORK -- Pri is celebrated by LGBTQ+ muni every June, but NYC Black Pri is regnized of this year's ftivi, there will be a town hall at the Apollo Theater, focg on issu ncerng Black gay men. It sets asi a time of the year—ually summer through fall—to regnize the terts and perspectiv of those of who haven’t found a place wh the mastream gay muny.

This was also the impet of the first Black Gay Pri ftival, which took place Washgton, D. “Black Gay Pri is an opportuny for Black LGBTQ folks to e together and celebrate everythg that mak who we are: our culture, mic, dancg, food, and even a good gospel drag performance, ” said Grandberry, a genr-nonnformg trans-intifyg dividual. If you live a predomantly Whe cy, is rehg to see other Black gay upl and Black folks lovg each other.

NYC PRI 2018: THE BIG APPLE’S BIG GAY PRI MONTH

I knew early on that I was gay by how different my terts and behavrs were om other boys my age. Of urse, like most other gay people, I was aaid to e out to my fay.

And beg Black, I had even more difficulty bee many the Black muny still have not fully embraced homosexualy. I dread seeg the reactn om my mother and sisters as they learned that yet another fay member was gay.

(My olr brother and are also openly gay. Beg at the tersectn of Black and gay meant I got a double dose of opprsn—discrimatn by Whe people, even om wh the movement, and homophobia and lack of cln om the people wh my ethnic muny. While the mastream gay pri movement was largely foced the last 15 years on achievg marriage equaly, the Black gay pri movement has foced on issu such as health re, hog, and homophobia their muni.

NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE

I don’t feel fully weled by the Black straight male stunts, who hold negative feelgs toward queer people, pecially Black gay men.

When I was given a chance by one of the Black anizatns to host a program about Black homophobia, I had difficulty fdg faculty, Black stunt lears, and members of the Pri anizatn to -host and curate bee of a lack of knowledge and unrstandg.

Rts epted rponse to a police raid of the gay bar June 1969. "People have a right to eely exprs themselv as queer people, whether members of the police partment, whether members of activist groups, whether members of ristance groups and the Gay Officers Actn League supports the rights of all people to exprs themselv eely, " said NYPD Detective and Gay Officers Actn League Print Bryan Downey. To ci wh the event, a New York state memorial to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people that honors victims of tolerance opened to the public Sunday.