Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 was a series of

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events and celebrations in June 2019, marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969

Stonewall riots The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of Ju ...

. It was also the first time

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was held in the United States. Held primarily in the metropolitan New York City area, the theme for the celebrations and educational events was "Millions of moments of Pride." The celebration was the largest LGBTQ event in history, with an official estimate of five million attending Pride weekend in

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alone, including an estimated four million in attendance at the parade. The twelve-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups.

Background

Namesake

The Stonewall Uprising of June 1969 was a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ) community in

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, New York City. ~

Stormé DeLarverie Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to Stormé and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the cro ...

Patrons of the

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, gay street kids from the surrounding area, and members of the community who came from neighboring

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and

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s, fought back against an early morning

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, refusing to be arrested for simply patronizing a gay bar and being out in public. The Stonewall riots are widely considered to be the most important event leading to the

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movement and the modern fight for

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50th anniversary

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The Stonewall 50 - WorldPride events were held throughout June, which is traditionally Pride month in New York City and worldwide, under the auspices of the annual

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. The events represented the largest LGBTQ celebration in history. Produced by

Heritage of Pride Heritage of Pride (HOP), doing business as NYC Pride, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that plans and produces the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events each June. HOP began working on the events in 1984, taking on the work previ ...

(HOP), they commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Organizers and city authorities estimated 150,000 parade marchers, and five million visitors attending Pride weekend in Manhattan alone. HOP's Stonewall 50 Planning Committee began work in July, 2009. Additional programming was envisioned for the coming years and by 2011 new events had become a reality. This would eventually lead to a successful bid for the first US hosted

WorldPride

The concept for

events were established in 1997 when

hosted the 16th annual conference of

InterPride InterPride is the international organization that brings together Pride organizers from across the World to network, share knowledge, and maximize impact. To this end, Pride organizers design InterPride’s structure, programs, and initiatives, to ...

. WorldPride, licensed by InterPride and organized by one of its members, is an event that promotes

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issues on an international level through parades, festivals and other cultural activities. The inaugural WorldPride was held in Rome in 2000. The host cities are selected by InterPride, an international association of pride coordinators, at its annual general meeting. WorldPrides so far include: the first one held in

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in 1990; WorldPride Jerusalem 2006; WorldPride London 2012;

WorldPride Toronto 2014 Pride Toronto is an annual event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year. A celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area, it is one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world, fe ...

; WorldPride Madrid 2017; and Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019. The next one planned is WorldPride

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2021.

Events

Started before June

* Through Jan. 5, 2020, 'Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now', at

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

. *Through November, “PRIDE”, at

Museum of the City of New York A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...

. *Through June 27, Drag Brunch, at Oscar Wilde NYC, weekend drag brunches benefiting

The Trevor Project The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number wher ...

. *Through Aug. 4, 'On the (Queer) Waterfront', at

Brooklyn Historical Society The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The center's Romanesque ...

. *Through Sept. 15, “

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: Bard of Democracy”, at

The Morgan Library & Museum The Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is situated at 225 Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th ...

. *Through Sept. 22, Stonewall 50 Exhibitions, at

New-York Historical Society The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. ...

, in Manhattan. * Through July 14, ‘Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50', at

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...

Bryant Park Bryant Park is a public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Privately managed, it is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The e ...

. *Through Dec. 8, 'Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall', at

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

. *Through July 20, “Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989”, at NYU's

Grey Art Gallery The Grey Art Gallery is New York University’s fine art museum, located on historic Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, in ...

, and at

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLM), formerly the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, is a visual art museum in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It mainly collects, preserves and exhibits visual arts created by LGBTQ artists or ar ...

, both in

. *Through September 27, Queer History Walks, at The Whitney, walking tours of LGBTQ history in the

Meatpacking District The Meatpacking District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from West 14th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street. The Meatpacking Business Improvement District along ...

* Starting in mid-May, and being unveiled through June,

presents, World Mural Project, fifty

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s throughout New York City's five buroughs of New York City that “that speak to the lived LGBTQ+ experience.”. *

The Stonewall Operas ''The Stonewall Operas'', are a series of four mini- operas inspired by the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the spark of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, which had their world premiere in May 2019 at New York University's Shubert ...

, a series of four mini-

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s which had their world premiere in May 2019 at New York University's Shubert Theatre and the

. *May 30, Queens Pride's LGBTQ Youth Prom takes place at

New York Hall of Science The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens, in the section of the park that is in Corona. It occupies one of the few remaining structures fr ...

for LGBTQ youth 14 to 20 years old.

Early June

* June 2, Queens Pride Parade and Festival headlined by

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and Dominique Jackson of “ ''Pose''.” *June 6, Portraits of Pride, at The Museum of the City of New York, films about

and

Marsha P. Johnson Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) also known as Malcolm Michaels Jr., was an American gay liberation''I've been involved in gay liberation ever since it first started in 1969'', 15:20 into the interview, Johnson is quoted as ...

. *June 9, 5K Brooklyn Pride Run, though Prospect Park. * The

Costume Institute The Anna Wintour Costume Center is a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's main building in Manhattan that houses the collection of the Costume Institute. The center is named after Anna Wintour, the longtime and current editor-in-chief of ' ...

’s '' Camp: Notes on Fashion'' exhibit at the

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(The Met), through Sept. 8, has a related event on June 11, a “Battle of the Legends” vogueing competition. *June 13, 'Love & Lipliner'

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tutorial and makeovers, at The James New York - NoMad. *June 14–17, Come Back Once More So I Can Say Goodbye, at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, performances telling the story of the NYC gay community between 1965 and 1995. *June 14–30, “Ascend With Pride”, the world's largest

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installed on the 12-foot-by-100-foot staircase of

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’s

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located adjacent to the historic Smallpox Hospital in New York Cit ...

. *June 15
The Ambisextrous
series debut and artist Lex Barberio's first solo exhibition *June 17, Queer & Now at

Delacorte Theater The Delacorte Theater is a 1,800-seat open-air theater in Central Park, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is home to the Public Theater's free Shakespeare in the Park productions. Over five million people have attended more than 15 ...

, with Trevor Bachman,

Kate Bornstein Katherine Vandam Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started identifiying as gender non-conforming and has stated "I don't call myself a woman, ''and ...

Lea DeLaria Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. DeLaria is credited with being the first openly gay comic to appear on American television with her 1993 appearance on ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. She is best kno ...

, Ryan J. Haddad, the Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir, Erin Markey, Darnell Moore,

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Toshi Reagon Toshi Reagon (born January 27, 1964) is an American musician of folk, blues, gospel, rock and funk, as well as a composer, curator, and producer. Early life Born January 27, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia, Reagon grew up in Washington, D.C. She wa ...

Conrad Ricamora Conrad Wayne Ricamora (born February 17, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Oliver Hampton on the ABC television series ''How to Get Away with Murder'' (2014–20). As a stage actor, he is noted for his roles in th ...

, Aneesh Sheth,

Chase Strangio Chase Strangio (; born October 29, 1982) is an American lawyer and transgender rights activist. He is the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice and staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Early life and education Strang ...

. *June 15, Spill the Tea discussion, at Harlem Stage Gatehouse with

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discussing

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from '' Sweet Tea: Gay Black Men of the South'' (2008), which focuses on southern, Black gay men. *June 16, Broadway Bares, at the

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benefiting

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. * June 17–19, NYC Pride, with

NewFest NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival put on by The New Festival, Inc., is one of the most comprehensive forums of national and international LGBT film/video in the world. Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc ...

and SVA Theatre, presents OutCinema, film screenings and talks. * June 19-July 6,

The Golden Girls ''The Golden Girls'' is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Bea Arthur, Betty White ...

Musical Parody: PRIDE is presented at HERE.

Pride week

*June 20–23, Folsom Street East Festival, four-day fetish festival in

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. *June 21–28, ''Stonewall'',

New York City Opera The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through 2013 (when it filed for bankruptcy), and again since 2016 when it was revived. The opera company, du ...

’s first-ever commissioned work, debuts. *June 21, Family Movie Night, hosted by

on Pier 45 in

Hudson River Park Hudson River Park is a waterfront park on the North River (Hudson River) that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, a component of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, stretches and ...

. *June 21, The Library After Hours: Pride, ''Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50,'' including Drag Queen Story Hour, at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. *June 21, Cosplay & Pride,

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party hosted by NYC Pride with Geeks OUT. *June 21–23, Pride at the Beach, a “destination weekend” including

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Pride Parade. *June 23, Pride Luminaries Brunch, hosted by NYC Pride and the

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at Magic Hour (Moxie Hotel). * June 23, “#howaboutlove: 50 Years of DIVAS” pays tribute to 50 years of

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s who provided the soundtrack to the worldwide pride movement. *June 24, Garden Party,

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event on Pier 97 benefiting The NYC LGBT Center. *June 24–25,

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Conference, at

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. * June 26, the opening ceremony for

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takes place at

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‘s

Barclays Center Barclays Center is a multi-purpose list of indoor arenas, indoor arena in the New York City Boroughs of New York City, borough of Brooklyn. The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Liberty o ...

, with headliners

Todrick Hall Todrick Hall (born April 4, 1985) is an American singer, choreographer, and YouTuber. He gained national attention on the ninth season of the televised singing competition ''American Idol''. Following this, he amassed a huge following on YouTu ...

Ciara Ciara Princess Wilson ( ; Harris; born October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, model and entrepreneur. She released her debut studio album, '' Goodies'' in 2004, which spawned four singles: " Goodies" (featuring Petey Pa ...

Chaka Khan Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (), is an American singer. Her career has spanned more than five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Known as the " Qu ...

Cyndi Lauper Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her career has spanned over 40 years. Her album ''She's So Unusual'' (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achi ...

, Billy Porter, and

Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ' ...

. * June 26, LBTQWomen hosts its first annual conference: Connect, Champion, and Celebrate, at Microsoft Conference Center on

Times Square Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent ...

. *June 27,

National LGBTQ Wall of Honor The National LGBTQ Wall of Honor is an American memorial wall in New York City dedicated to LGBTQ "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes." The wall is located inside of the Stonewall Inn and is a part of the Stonewall National Monument, the first U. ...

, is unveiled at the

. *June 27, Solidarity: Hustlaball WorldPride, part one of three for the Solidarity party Pride series is gay dance party

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, at Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill.

Pride weekend

*June 28–30, LadyLand Festival, at Brooklyn Mirage, queer music festival, with dozens of acts including

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, and

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. *June 28, Stonewall 50 Commemoration, in Christopher Park outside The Stonewall Inn with several speakers like Mayor Bill De Blasio, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, activists Emma González and Rémy Bonny. *June 28, Savor Pride, an “immersive culinary fundraiser” benefiting

God's Love We Deliver God's Love We Deliver (GLWD) is an American charitable organization founded in 1985 based in New York City. Despite its name, the organization is secular. God's Love We Deliver prepares and delivers meals to ill New York residents and serves ove ...

, which delivers meals to people living with

HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...

and other serious illnesses, on the terraces of the non-profit's Midtown headquarters. *June 28, the

Trans Day of Action Trans Day of Action (TDOA) began in 2005 and is an annual rally and march held in late June in New York City. It is organized by the Audre Lorde Project's Trans Justice group. It aims "to call attention to the continued violence, discrimination ...

, a rally and march for gender liberation, starts in

Washington Square Park Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. One of the best known of New York City's public parks, it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. ...

. *June 28, the

New York City Drag March The New York City Drag March, or NYC Drag March, is an annual Drag (clothing), drag Demonstration (political), protest and visibility march taking place in June, the traditional LGBT pride, LGBTQ pride month in New York City. Organized to coincide ...

goes from

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to Sheridan Square. *June 28, Forever Tel Aviv: OneWorld Opening, at

. *June 28, Solidarity: DIES3L Main Event, world's largest muscle-bear event at

Webster Hall Webster Hall is a nightclub and concert venue located at 125 East 11th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, near Astor Place, in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City. It is one of New York City's most historically significant ...

. *June 29, Live Jazz Pride Brunch with Live Out Loud, Brunch For Benefits, at Ortzi NYC inside the LUMA Hotel Times Square. *June 29,

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’s

SummerStage The City Parks Foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization to offer programs in parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The organization works in over 750 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of free arts, sports ...

hosts a YouthPride festival for young people under 21 years old. *June 29, The New York City Dyke March takes place in the streets between

and

. *June 29, “Hot Rabbit: Bad Habit”, benefits the NYC Dyke March, at Bushwick's Lot 49. *June 29, USS Masterbeat: Oneworld Daytime, part two of the OneWorld series at Terminal 5. *June 29, Brooklyn Ultra Day Party, at The Brooklyn Warehouse. *June 29, TEAZE, an inclusive queer benefit party, at The DL on the

Lower East Side The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Traditionally an im ...

. *June 29, VIP Rooftop, rooftop party benefit at Hudson Terrace. *June 29, Solidarity: BRÜT WorldPride, the last of the trio of Solidarity WorldPride's parties is also NYC's largest underground leather/fetish events of the year, at PlayStation Theatre in Times Square.

Pride day

*June 29–30. Pride Island, on Pier 97 In

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, with

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Teyana Taylor Teyana Me Shay Jacqueli Shumpert ( Taylor; born December 10, 1990) is an American singer, actress, dancer and choreographer. In 2005, she signed a record deal with Pharrell Williams' Star Trak Entertainment imprint. Afterwards, she choreographed ...

Pabllo Vittar Phabullo Rodrigues da Silva (born 1 November 1993), known professionally as Pabllo Vittar (), is a Brazilian drag queen and singer. Life and career 1993–2016: Early life Born in São Luís, Phabullo is a dizygotic twin and has an older sis ...

, Amara La Negra, Johnny Dynell, and other acts. * June 30,

goes down

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, through the Village, and then up Seventh Avenue into

. * June 30,

Reclaim Pride Coalition Reclaim Pride Coalition is a coalition of LGBT groups and individuals that initially gathered in New York City in 2019 to create the Queer Liberation March in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots and to protest the commercializatio ...

will hold a counter-protest

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, up

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. *June 30, WorldPride Closing Ceremony, headliners include

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. *June 30, Algeria WorldPride 2019, two dance events, during the day WOW, then later is the ALEGRIA CIRCUS, at Brooklyn Mirage open-air event venue. *June 30, Femme Fatale, the official rooftop party for women at Hudson Terrace. *June 30, Matinee Pervert: OneWorld Closing, at Terminal.

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WorldPride/Stonewall 50
, official site
Digital monument to the Stonewall Uprising
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