Your Guide to Brooklyn’s Pride Day
There are nearly 24 hours of events to celebrate Pride Day in Brooklyn.
There are nearly 24 hours of events to celebrate Pride Day in Brooklyn.
June 9 is Pride Day in Brooklyn. There are events planned all day that will allow everyone who wants to to get involved. Check out the different activities and schedule for the day below.
The day starts off with a 5K run through Prospect Park. 2018 marks the 22nd year of this event, and organizers are hoping for the best turnout yet. In addition to celebrating gender fluidity and diversity, a portion of the run’s proceeds will go to Make The Road New York. Runners will receive Brooklyn Pride Run tech t-shirts and engraved Pride Run finisher’s medals, and top finishers overall and within each age group will receive special prizes. Although registration is sold out, Pride celebrators can watch the race and cheer on the runners along the route within the park.
For six hours in the middle of the day, various vendors and businesses will set up tents and tables with merchandise on 5th Avenue between 1st and 9th streets in Park Slope. There will also be stages set up with live entertainment throughout the festival.
JJ Byrne Park will host this year’s Family Fun Zone, with carnival games and other activities for kids of all ages. The Family Fun Zone will also feature “facepainters, a bubble performance, puppet making, and bouncy house.” As if that weren’t enough, from 3-4pm, the queens of Drag Queen Story Hour will read children’s stories to everyone in attendance.
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The parade will go from Lincoln Place to the intersection at 9th Street and 5th Avenue. The Drag Queen Story Hour queens will serve as grand marshals and lead the parade. Mexican-American rapper, singer, actor, and gay acitivst Rob B will MC the event, which is sure to be a grand affair. Don’t miss it.
After a day of celebrating, keep things going late into the night with two dance parties around the corner from each other in Bushwick. The official Brooklyn Pride party, Hot Rabbit/Bad Habit Dance Party is at Lot 45. For $17 (part of which goes to support Brooklyn Pride), party people will get access to a loaded lineup of DJs and live performers. Just around the corner at House of Yes, the price of admission is a bit steeper ($30), but grants entry to the wondrous world that HoY offers night after night. Both parties will no doubt be packed with people and feature good music, so the only way you can go wrong is to miss out on them both.
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