Showing posts with label Pride Weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pride Weekend. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2025

At the start of the 2025 Drag March in Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Stacie Joy 

Marking its 31st year, the Drag March launched Pride Weekend last evening with its always festive procession to the Stonewall Inn. 

Participants gathered in Tompkins Square Park before stepping off at Avenue A and Ninth Street to begin their journey to the West Side. 

Spirits were high, and the turnout was strong; the weather was a blessing (it's usually 87 swampy degrees), and I had a blast taking photos.

Friday, June 27, 2025

Pride Weekend 2025

Photo from 2024 by Stacie Joy 

The 31st edition of the Drag March will get Pride Weekend underway this evening, starting in Tompkins Square Park at Ninth Street ... with the annual walk-march-protest to the Stonewall Inn. 

Participants will start gathering in Tompkins after 7 p.m. 

Tomorrow, the NYC Dyke March will step off from Bryant Park at 5 p.m. ... heading south to Washington Square Park. This year's theme: "Dykes Say No to Fascism." 

Visit the NYC Pride website for a complete list of Pride-related activities this weekend.

Saturday, June 24, 2023

At the start of the 2023 Drag March in Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Stacie Joy 

The 29th edition of the Drag March took place last night — a kick-off to NYC Pride Weekend

Once again, a fabulous group of generation-spanning participants gathered in Tompkins Square Park for the march across Ninth Street to Sheridan Square and the Stonewall Inn. 

As East Village-based writer Jeremiah Moss wrote on Instagram: "The Drag March remains wonderfully sweaty, scrappy, queer, vaguely '90s, and still very East Village."

Sunday, June 26, 2022

At the 2022 Dyke March

Images by Stacie Joy 

On this Pride weekend, the 30th annual edition of the Dyke March took place yesterday, with thousands of participants marching down Fifth Avenue from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park. 

The official site notes that this is a protest march, not a parade: 
The March is a demonstration of our First Amendment right to protest and takes place without permits or sponsors. We recognize that we must organize among ourselves to fight for our rights, safety and visibility.

Thousands of Dykes take the streets each year in celebration of our beautiful and diverse Dyke lives, to highlight the presence of Dykes within our community, and in protest of the discrimination, harassment, and violence we face in schools, on the job, and in our communities. 
Organizer Nate Shalev talked about the march's diversity with Gothamist:
There's just simply no other space like it, where trans dykes, butch dykes, femme dykes, all dykes feel like they have a space where they can be who they are and celebrate who they are. And that means being angry, and that means being joyful, and you don't have to be anything except whatever the thing is you are."
There was a heightened feeling of fury yesterday following the seismic ruling by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. EVG contributor Stacie Joy was on lower Fifth Avenue and in Washington Square Park for the March... 
Back to Gothamist: 
Celebrations around the Washington Square Park fountain after the long, hot trek accurately reflect what march participants feel at the end of the road, Shalev confirmed: "It's always really wonderful, because it's allowing dykes to exist in whatever space they need."
Previously this weekend on EV Grieve