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Clear Your Calendar – NYC Pride 2025 Is Packed!
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NYC Pride | Heritage of Pride is excited to share its full roster of events and programs for Pride Month 2025. This year's calendar features annual events – including the Pride March, among the world's largest LGBTQIA+ marches, and PrideFest, the nation's largest LGBTQIA+ street festival – alongside exciting new events, like NYC Pride's first-ever sober party. Together, the events serve to provide the LGBTQIA+ community with a variety of opportunities to gather, connect and celebrate at this pivotal moment in Pride history.
"NYC Pride's 2025 calendar honors our past in protest as we continue the fight for equality and liberation," shared NYC Pride Co-Chair Michele Irimia. "At a time when our community is facing increasing discrimination, this year's slate of events will showcase the enduring spirit of our community on the world stage."
Free NYC Pride events include:
Pride March
Sunday, June 29, 2025. 12pm.
Starting line: 26th St & 5th Ave.
Dispersal: 15th St & 7th Ave.
NYC's iconic Pride March, which began as an annual demonstration honoring the 1969 Stonewall Riots, has become a global symbol of LGBTQIA+ resilience, unity and activism. Join millions of spectators, our community and allies, marching contingents, game-changing Grand Marshals, local partners and more as we march in advocacy, solidarity and celebration. If you can't join us in person, tune in to the NYC Pride March Broadcast on WABC-7 and ABC.com for up-close looks at floats and marching contingents, exclusive performances and intimate interviews with our city's queer trailblazers.
PrideFest
Sunday, June 29, 2025. 11am-6pm. 4th Avenue from 14th St to 8th St/Astor Place.
The largest LGBTQIA+ street festival in the U.S. brings together NYC's queer community, families, community leaders, local small businesses and nonprofits, and incredible talent from around the world.
Visitors can:
Youth Pride
Saturday, June 28, 2025. 11am-6pm. South Street Seaport Museum/Pier 16 and
Pier 17.
Youth Pride - a block party-style, queer-affirming celebration of LGBTQIA+ youth and their families and allies - provides a safe space for empowerment, education and building community. Attendees can enjoy exciting carnival games and attractions, musical performances, free food and snacks, and more. At a time when trans youth are under attack, we're honored to kick off Youth Pride with a Rise Up Rally to Protect Trans Youth co-led by our incredible partner and 2025 Grand Marshal Transformative Schools.
Ticketed NYC Pride events include:
Saturdays, May 25 + June 14
You don't need to wait until June to show your Pride! NYC Pride's bar crawl series, Road to Pride, returns with crawls in the West Village on May 24 and Hell's Kitchen on June 14. Check out LGBTQIA+ hotspots, meet new people, and support NYC Pride – ticket sales and 10% of drink purchases help us keep NYC Pride free, accessible, and inclusive. Various locations and dates. $15 plus tax.
Saturday, June 21
Brunch with purpose this Pride season and join us for It's Giving Brunch: NYC Pride Drag Fundraiser! This fabulous fundraiser at the iconic Macy's Herald Square brings together some of NYC's top artists - including 2025 Grand Marshal Marti Gould Cummings - for an afternoon of drag excellence, raffle prizes and paying it forward. Seating 1: 11am-1pm. Seating 2: 2-4pm. Stella 34 Trattoria at Macy's Herald Square. Starting at $40.
Sunday, June 29
NYC Pride's Grandstand is a premium, ticketed experience that offers an unmatched Pride March viewing spot with comfortable stadium-style seating. The Grandstand also offers VIP amenities, including private restrooms, complimentary food and beverages, live entertainment and more.
10:30am-6:00pm. General William Jenkins Worth Monument. $184.
Ticketed partner events supporting NYC Pride include:
Friday, June 27
NYC Pride weekend kicks off with HERITAGE presented by Envoy Events, the official NYC Pride party for 2025. Set inside Brooklyn's Duggal Greenhouse, HERITAGE boasts a powerful lineup of local and international artists for a night of queer joy on the dance floor. Duggal Greenhouse. 3pm-late. Starting at $59.
Sunday, June 29
For the first time ever, we're excited to offer an official sober party for NYC Pride! The Gay & Sober Cruise is a high-energy dance party celebrating sobriety and community, with stellar views of some of NYC's finest landmarks against a dreamy sunset backdrop. Departing from Piers at Hudson River Park. 8-11pm. 18+. Starting at $40.
NYC Pride's official womxn event for 2025, RE-UNITED PRIDE, takes over the spacious, state-of-the-art HK Hall with amazing DJs, live performances, multiple dance floors, and a few surprises. HK Hall. 3pm-12am. Starting at $30.
For late-night festivities on Pride Sunday, look no further than POSH. Over-the-top production, next-level DJs, and a high-energy dance floor await at the ultra-trendy Nebula Nightclub. Nebula Nightclub. 10pm-3am. Starting at $30.
NYC Pride is also excited to announce Flamingo Interpreting as our official ASL interpreting services partner this season, helping ensure an accessible and inclusive space for more of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Other partner events can be found at https://www.nycpride.org/events.
NYC Pride is made possible through the support of community members and allies. To sustain our mission and continue advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights, we invite everyone to donate at nycpride.org/donate. For volunteer opportunities and other ways to get involved, visit nycpride.org/support-pride/ways-to-give.
