Join us this June as Battery Park City Authority marks Pride month with following free public events:
Out & About: Queer Nature Walk in BPC – Monday, June 1, 5:30-6:30PM, start @ Rockefeller Park House
Kick off Pride Month by getting back to our roots! On this evening nature walk, explore the queer history of our city’s waterfront and the creatures that call it home with BPCA naturalist Marieke Bender.
Love Always, Impress – Saturday, June 6, 6:30PM at Wagner Park
In celebration of Pride, Impress will ignite the night with their crystalline voice, irresistible melodies, and awe-inspiring dance-fueled reverie driven by the irresistible pulse of pure pop. Shed your inhibitions and ride an unstoppable wave of euphoria.
6:30PM – DJ Belinda Becker
7:30PM – Matty Marz
8:00 PM – Impress
RSVP here
Pride @ MJH – Sunday, June 7, 11:30AM-4PM @ Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place)
Celebrate Pride with the Museum of Jewish Heritage! Explore queer Jewish joy through romance books, hear stories of queer Jews from the Holocaust to the present and join Keshet for a workshop on building LGBTQ+ equality and belonging.
11:30AM-12:30PM: Queer Jewish Love Stories
1-2:30PM: LGBTQ+ Equality & Jewish Values: A Community Workshop with Keshet
3-4 PM: Voices of Pride: Queer Jewish Stories Past and Present with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Eric Marcus, Miryam Kabakov, and Samuel C. Huneke
Also this month, BPCA continues its annual Pride Month tradition of installing a specially-themed bench and lights near Rockefeller Park. Find them and tag @BPCParks on Instagram with the hashtag #BPCPride.
Read more about Pride Month here (Library of Congress).
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