Since there's so much to see this week, scroll down to the big purple banner for all events organized by type!
FRIDAY
7 PM | Corporate Pride😂
Gowanus | The Bell House | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
Jes Tom and Tessa Skara host their 3rd annual pride event celebrating the most vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ community: corporations!
8 PM | Transgression x Rabbit Hole: Trans Pride🪩💋
Vetting Required for Location | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
Y'all get so f*cking hyped. We're teaming up with Rabbit Hole to bring you the largest trans party this city has ever seen. This party will be two floors. With one exclusively for dancing and partying and one for play.
8 PM | Villain Edit👑
East Village | Club Cumming | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
Welcome to Villain Edit - transporting you to the dark side of drag and nightlife in NYC. Chevy Lace hosts a night of kings, queens, cryptids, and stunning performers of all types showcasing the incredible breadth of the alternative performance scene. Sideshow, stunts, stripteases, sexy bigfoot - you never know what you might see at this extraordinary evening.
SATURDAY
11:15 AM | Playbill Pride: Breaking the Binary Theatre🎵🎭
Midtown | Times Square | 11:15 AM - 12 PM | More Info
Breaking the Binary Theatre is a new work development and community building hub wherein transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ (TNB2S+*) artists come together to reclaim our artistic license and liberty through a number of initiatives, including the yearly all-TNB2S+ Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival each October.
4 PM | Lil Park Drag Show: Creatures👑
RSVP for Location | 4 PM | More Info
Celebrate pr!de with Lil Park Dr4g Show coming at you with some CREATURE DR4G at Lil Park Dr4g Show: CREATURES!
5 PM | Anna May Wong: PERSONA🎭
East Village | The Kraine Theater | 5 PM | More Info | Tickets
A woman ahead of her time; Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star. For all her talent, wit, and charm, she’s spent her life searching for a place to belong. She was discriminated against by American society for her race, and demeaned by her family for her dreams. It seemed the only place where she was beyond her circ*mstances was in the magical world of film and acting, if only Hollywood could’ve seen her beyond racist stereotypes and caricatures. From rumored sapphic romances to traveling different countries to lifelong friendships with fellow legendary artists, Anna will defy all the odds as she devotes herself to her craft. Only one question remains: will there ever be a place where she can be seen as human?
7 PM | Dice X Purgatory Pride Showcase🎵🪩
Bushwick | Purgatory | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
7 PM | Live Band Karaoke for A Better World🎵
Fort Green | Littlefield | 7 PM | Tickets
The Occasionalists, Brooklyn’s premier live karaoke band, are pleased to present “Live Band Karaoke For a Better World,” a very special Pride Month benefit show for Trans formative Schools. The band is thrilled to present a diverse setlist across more genres and decades than we thought possible in which the band plays the music and you, the audience, get to be the lead singer of the band.
Stacy Cay and Esther Fallick, two amazingly funny comedians, kick things off with opening sets of comedic brilliance. Read more about them below.
7 PM | FRUITCUP👑
Bushwick | Starr Bar | 7 PM | More Info
Open set show hosted by Peach Bellini & Anneliza Canning-Skinner
9 PM | Motti's Big Gay Talent Show🃏
Bushwick | Nook | 9 PM | More Info | Tickets
Motti's Big Gay Talent Show is an indie variety show produced and hosted by Motti, a New York born and raised comic, writer, and producer. Once a month, Motti puts together a diverse lineup of Brooklyn-based queer and trans performers for an evening of comedy, music, poetry, and more. The show is designed to provide a space for performers who do not get the same opportunities to celebrate in their queerness and transess at traditional comedy clubs, music venues, and other arts spaces. When you purchase a ticket, you are covering the cost of the venue and the rest of your money goes to the performers.
9:30 PM | Trans Voices Cabaret🎵
Lower East Side | Caveat | 9:30 PM | More Info | Tickets
Trans Voices Cabaret is back with an all new Pride Show for your NYC Pride Weekend featuring an all-star line up of transgender and nonbinary performers!
9:30 PM | Annabel and Sabina Meschke present TRIPLET AUDITIONS😂
Park Slope | Union Hall | 9:30 PM | Tickets
SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW,WAY UP HIGH…..THERE’S A CO-ME-DY SHOW BY TWINS, ONE OF THEM IS BI ….
11:59 PM | Neon Pride Party (a T4T bipoc event)🎵🪩
Bushwick | Purgatory | 11:59 PM | More Info | Tickets
SUNDAY
11 AM | Lil Park Drag Show @ FamilyFest👑
Astor Place | Astor Place | 11 AM | More Info
BIG NEWS!!! 🌟Lil Park Drag Show will be performing at NYC Pride FamilyFest as part of PrideFest!💫11am in Astor Place on the outdoor stage. Free and open to all!
3 PM | NYC Pride Queer Comedy Showcase😂
Astor Place | Astor Place Plaza | 3 PM
7 PM | The Lesbian Agenda w/ Sophie Santos: Pride Edition😂
Gowanus | The Bell House | 7 PM | Tickets
Did you hear that lesbians are taking over the world? I mean, did you actually think straights making bread during quarantine was just a coincidence? Join Supreme Chancellor, Sophie Santos, who brings you her Agenda™ with this very serious show, where she tries to enforce her new world order. Featuring some of the best lez, bi and queer comedians* of all time.
EVENTS BY TYPE
Comedy | Music & Theater | Drag | Party
COMEDY😂
FRI @ 7 PM | Corporate Pride
Gowanus | The Bell House | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 9PM | Motti's Big Gay Talent Show
Bushwick | Nook | 9 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 9:30 PM | Annabel and Sabina Meschke present TRIPLET AUDITIONS
Park Slope | Union Hall | 9:30 PM | Tickets
SUN @ 3 PM | NYC Pride Queer Comedy Showcase
Astor Place | Astor Place Plaza | 3 PM
SUN @ 7 PM | The Lesbian Agenda w/ Sophie Santos: Pride Edition
Gowanus | The Bell House | 7 PM | Tickets
MUSIC & THEATER 🎵🎭
SAT @ 11:15 AM | Playbill Pride: Breaking the Binary Theatre
Midtown | Times Square | 11:15 AM - 12 PM | More Info
SAT @ 5 PM | Anna May Wong: PERSONA
East Village | The Kraine Theater | 5 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 7 PM | Live Band Karaoke for A Better World
Fort Green | Littlefield | 7 PM | Tickets
SAT @ 9 PM | Motti's Big Gay Talent Show
Bushwick | Nook | 9 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 9:30 PM | Trans Voices Cabaret
Lower East Side | Caveat | 9:30 PM | More Info | Tickets
DRAG👑
FRI @ 8 PM | Villain Edit
East Village | Club Cumming | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 4 PM | Lil Park Drag Show: Creatures
RSVP for Location | 4 PM | More Info
SAT @ 7 PM | FRUITCUP
Bushwick | Starr Bar | 7 PM | More Info
SUN @ 11 AM | Lil Park Drag Show @ FamilyFest
Astor Place | Astor Place | 11 AM | More Info
PARTY🪩
FRI @ 8 PM | Transgression x Rabbit Hole: Trans Pride💋
Vetting Required for Location | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 7 PM | Dice X Purgatory Pride Showcase
Bushwick | Purgatory | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
SAT @ 11:59 PM | Neon Pride Party (a T4T bipoc event)
Bushwick | Purgatory | 11:59 PM | More Info | Tickets
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Pride Month Affirmation #7: Look how many events are in this newsletter. This isn't even everything; I'm one person browsing Instagram, and there are so many events that slip through the cracks. Trans people are everywhere. We are performing and creating and making ourselves beautiful and visible. I'm extremely proud of us, and I can't wait to celebrate Pride with my trans family.
Sending a special congradulations and thanks to:
- Lil' Park Drag Show for all their performances this month, and for performing as part of NYC Pridefest. They're doing incredible work and I'm so proud to have their events in this newsletter.
- The Queerly Festival & Jimmy Lovett for submitting so many events this month and for highlighting trans art as part of this wonderful festival.
- My choir, TRANScend, for a wonderful Pride Concert, and for our killer sets at SHAG in Connecticut (even though Orville Peck called out sick and was replaced by CeeLo Green - true story).
