June 2022
To the Brooklyn College Community,
June is Pride Month. This month was chosen to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Manhattan. The riots were a critical moment for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. Therefore, during this time we recognize the sacrifices, contributions, and achievements of LGBTQ+ individuals throughout our history, civic, and social culture.
At Brooklyn College, this is also a time for remembrance and celebration as LGBTQ+ members and allies show their pride and support for the community. Opportunities to join in are endless. You can wear your rainbow pride, study LGBTQ+ history, learn how to be an ally, or support and attend events.
The following events take place or are celebrated in June:
- All Month: National Caribbean American Heritage Month
- All Month: LGBTQ+ Pride Month
- All Month: Black Music Awareness Month
- June 8: Race Unity Day
- June 12: Loving Day
- June 19: Juneteenth
- June 28: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Day
Below are some of the events that are taking place at Brooklyn College this month. Please try to attend these events, as they represent an opportunity for you to celebrate the great diversity of the college.
Regards,
Anthony Brown, Esq.
Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President
Office of Diversity and Equity Programs
Brooklyn College
718.951.4128
Anthony.Brown@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Selected June Events
Queens Pride Parade
June 5, 11 a.m.
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CUNY students, staff, and faculty will march in the annual Queens Pride Parade in Jackson Heights.
If you would like to be part of our dance team and reclaim our pre-pandemic title as the Queens Pride Parade Rainbow Award winners, sign up now!
All skill levels and abilities are welcome. If you have CUNY spirit, you will not be turned away.
CUNY Pridefest
June 10, Noon–4 p.m.
Register now to receive your free ticket and festival updates.
After two years of fun virtual celebrations, students, staff, and faculty from all 25 CUNY schools in all five boroughs will celebrate the fifth CUNY Pridefest in person at Queens.
This celebratory march encourages you to bring your banners, wave your free commemorative CUNY Pridefest flags, wear your college swag (or your new free Pridefest t-shirt), and make some noise! And you won't want to miss this year's display of "Pride in the Sky" along the parade route!
Dazzling drag numbers, super-talented band performances, sexy vogue dancers, fun games, and much more are on the main stage all day. The amazing DJ Unico will be spinning, so that means you'll be dancing. Awesome arts and creative crafts activities let you yourself and make new friends. And there will be giveaways and prizes, too! We'll also have face painters, a stilt walker, photo-ops, free and confidential HIV testing, and a lemonade stand where proceeds benefit the AIDS Center of Queens County. Amazing organizations serving the LGBTQ+ community will be on hand in the expo area, and you can sign up for a fabulous drag queen tour of our 2022 Pride exhibit at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum near the festival area.
CUNY Marches in Brooklyn Pride
June 11, 6:30 p.m.
5th Avenue and Lincoln Place
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Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required.
Join the fiercest group of students, staff, and faculty—and the folks who love them—at this year's Brooklyn Pride Parade. We will march together and, as the event theme shouts: Be Loving, Be Brave, Be Proud! Bring your pride, flags, and signs, and wear your queerest CUNY gear.
NYC Dyke March
June 25, 5 p.m.
Bryant Park, Manhattan
The NYC Dyke March is not a parade; it is a protest march, 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.
Harlem Pride Celebration Day
June 25, Noon–6 p.m.
12th Avenue at West 135th Street, Harlem
Harlem Pride Celebration Day is an event the whole family will enjoy. While certainly an event steeped in celebration, it serves as our greatest opportunity to disseminate information and provide services to our constituents, including referrals for health, legal and financial services, and on-the-spot testing for communicable diseases.
Queer Liberation March
June 26
The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) will take to the streets to stage the fourth annual Queer Liberation March. As in the last three years, this is a peaceful people's march with no regimented contingents, no corporate sponsors, no NYPD control over decision making, and no uniformed police marching. The march revives the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising: social justice, freedom, and access for all.
NYC Pride
June 26, Noon
The first NYC Pride march was held in 1970 and has since become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years, its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to illness, violence, and neglect. Come march with CUNY!
