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New York, New York
The city so nice it celebrates Pride twice!
Clearly, a city that can host the largest LGBT event anywhere in the world to date (the NYC Heritage of Pride March of 2019) has room for another celebration. Or two or three, in fact.
What am I talking about?
New York City turns into one massive rainbow for the entire month of June every year, including 2020, thankyouverymuch. But Pride weekend has long boasted not only the enormous “official” parade that draws tourists from around the world (and features loads of corporate sponsors giddy at the “discovery” of this vast new market) but a whole smorgasbord of other goodies.
In addition to that staple of the last weekend of June, there’s also the beloved NYC Dyke March on Saturday as well as the riotously silly and fun Drag March on Friday evening (a response to the boneheaded 1994 decision to bar drag queens and transfolk from the Pride parade in a bid to court corporate sponsorship…you dummies, what do you think the tourists are there to see?). And let’s not forget Folsom Street East, the raunchy kid brother to San Francisco’s notorious Folsom Street Festival.
