The Beat

An Annual Celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride 

New York. NY (May 1, 2024)  – Continuing its 50th Anniversary celebration, New York City’s oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company TOSOS (Artistic Director Mark Finley) has announced its TOSOS@50 Pride Party. The event will be held on May 20, 2024, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Red Eye NY, 355 West 41^st Street (just East of Ninth Avenue) in New York City.

Glens Falls, New York – Lower Adirondack Pride is thrilled to announce the return of its highly anticipated second annual Glens Falls Pride Festival, scheduled to take place from Friday, May 31, 2024, through Sunday, June 2, 2024. Following the resounding success of last year's inaugural festival, which drew an enthusiastic crowd of over one thousand attendees, this year's event promises to be even more spectacular.

"Notes on a Siren"

February 9, 2024 at 7:30pm

New York, N.Y. - Join the South Street Seaport Museum and Justice Jamal Jones on February 9, 2024, at 7:30pm at Pier 17 (89 South Street), NYC. The free event will include a screening of their film essay, Notes on a Siren, which intertwines black and African spirituality and offers a thought-provoking narrative on transformation. Jones will introduce the film and La Sirène, a mermaid from Haitian Vodou.

LGBTQ+ Community Invited to Two-Day Event at Belleayre Mountain in The Catskills

Albany, N.Y. – A new event in 2024 will add wintertime wonder to the roster of activities available to LGBTQ+ residents and travelers in New York State. The Capital Region’s first-ever Pride Ski Weekend will be held January 20 – 21 at Belleayre Mountain, featuring two fabulous days of slope-side fun for the LGBTQ+ community.

Saranac Lake, NY (June 6, 2023) –  The Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance is hosting a LGBTQI+ Pride event at Riverside Park in Saranac Lake on June 25 from 12 to 4 p.m. The free event welcomes members of the LGBTQI+ community from Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and neighboring communities, along with their families, friends, supportive organizations, businesses and other allies.

The one-day volleyball tournament will take place at Eisenhower Park and raise proceeds for PFY, a Long Island-based LGBTQ+ center

East Meadow, N.Y.  (May 25, 2022) -- After a successful debut, the Second Annual Grass Volleyball Pride Festival, a.k.a “PrideFest,” will return on June 10 to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, NY.

Hosted in June 2022 by VBLI, a Long Island-based recreational volleyball organization for teenagers and adults, the inaugural PrideFest was an all-day charity tournament that welcomed 186 volleyball enthusiasts, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies from all over the Northeastern U.S.

New York, N.Y. – On Saturday, June 17th, six independent bookstores on Manhattan’s Lower East Side will celebrate the diversity and resilience of the neighborhood’s indie bookshops by offering discounts, special giveaways, and curated selections of queer books. This is the fourth Lower East Side book crawl to take place (previously, Halloween 2021 & 2022 and Pride 2022).

A new exclusive exhibit showcasing the groundbreaking, Emmy Award–winning series will serve as the centerpiece of the Paley Museum’s annual Pride Month Celebration

A Star-Studded Launch Event on June 5 will feature a conversation with Will & Grace stars Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, and Cocreators & Executive Producers Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, moderated by Fashion Designer Isaac Mizrahi

New York, NY – The Paley Center for Media announced today Paley Celebrates the 25^th Anniversary of Will & Grace, an immersive must-see exhibition at its iconic Paley Museum, in honor of the series’ milestone anniversary, as the centerpiece of its annual celebration of Pride Month. Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of Universal Television’s series which helped to pave the way for greater representation of the LGBTQ+ community on television.