All You Need To Know About This Year’s Pride March Theme & Grand Marshals
This year’s NYC Pride celebration, happening Sunday, June 26, is full of a ton of fun events and is the first fully in-person NYC Pride March in three years!
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This year’s NYC Pride celebration, happening Sunday, June 26, is full of a ton of fun events and is the first fully in-person NYC Pride March in three years!
June will be here before we know it, and with it comes Pride Month and the chance to celebrate and show our support for the LGBTQIA+ community! And NYC Pride March, one of the largest annual Pride parades in the world, has just revealed some of its 53rd event’s details.
This year, the NYC Pride March will have five grand marshals: social media star Ts Madison, transgender former NCAA swimmer Schuyler Bailar, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, “Saturday Night Live” cast member Punkie Johnson, and Okra Project Executive Director Dominique Morgan.
“At a time when LGBTQIA+ people are under increased attack, the NYC Pride March is a beacon of hope and community,” says Bansri Manek, NYC’s Pride March director. “Our grand marshals for this year truly embody the spirit of the theme for NYC Pride 2022, ‘Unapologetically Us.’ They have embraced their identities and used their platforms to help members of our community truly love and live their truth without fear or shame.”
As for the theme “Unapologetically Us,” it’s the march’s way of acknowledging the struggle and the resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community as the world recovers from a pandemic. This theme celebrates and supports each persons journey whether we’re talking about exploring your true self, coming out to the world, or continuing a journey that has already been started.
Here’s what else you should know:
12 p.m. on Sunday, June 26!
NYC Pride March begins at 25th Street and 5th Avenue and ends in Chelsea at 16th Street and 7th Avenue. It will pass the Stonewall National Monument and New York City AIDS Memorial.
The march will also be broadcast on WABC-TV, ABC7NY.com and ABC News Live.
The Flatiron North Plaza will be offline beginning Sunday morning, as will public seating on NoMad Piazza. The Flatiron South Plaza, and the Flatiron Plate kiosk, will remain open to the public. Pedestrian crossings on Fifth Avenue will be limited to 23rd Street and 21st Street in Flatiron. The following streets will be closed on Sunday for operations, staging, and television broadcasting:
In addition, according to the DOT, the following streets will be fully closed for the NYC Pride March at the discretion of NYPD:
Formation:
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Dispersal:
Miscellaneous: