As the most colorful month of the year enters its third week, options to celebrate LGBTQ culture while honoring continue to grow. Here’s how you can join in this week’s Pride Month festivities across New York City. Frigid, a New York City-focused theater development group, is celebrating Pride with its Held at Under St.
Marks, the festival seeks to “provide a space for queer artists who’ve rarely or never seen their identities portrayed on stage to be able to represent themselves and tell their stories their way.” The festival’s 10th annual edition runs through July 3 and offers theater lovers a rainbow of options ranging from a to an . On Sunday and Monday, “Flayed,” an award-winning solo comedy about a puritanical pastor and the “many obscene voices in his head” takes the stage.
What’s a Pride celebration without a visit to where it all began? The Stonewall Inn — a little bar in Greenwich Village where a 1969 raid sparked a series of violent protests and a new phase in the fight for queer and trans rights — is hosting stars of Broadway, Off-Broadway and cabaret to sing about labor and work. Performers include Melissa E. Driscol, Brandi Massey, Petralina Lambert and downtown nightlife legend Flotilla DeBarge.
Proceeds will benefit , a nonprofit dedicated to highlighting and elevating LGBTQ stories. The Carousel for All Children, Staten Island’s cherished merry-go-round in Willowbrook Park, is celebrating the beauty of diversity with a free event f.