Harlem Pride 2018

• Friday, June 1st – First Fridays: LGBT Pride Edition Presented by the Schomburg Center

  • Description: To kick off LGBT Pride Month, the Schomburg Center is proud to present the fourth annual First Fridays: LGBT Pride social gathering, in honor of our In the Life Archive, a collection of materials of and by black LGBT people throughout history preserved in our Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.
  • Venue: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd @ West 135th Street, Harlem, NY  10037
  • Time: 6-8PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – RSVP REQUIRED  CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Sunday, June 3rd – Rivers of Living Water  United Church of Christ NY/NJ – First Annual Pride Gospel Concert 

  • Description:  Come out and enjoy local community choirs as they delight your spirit with some soulful singing!
  • Venue:  St. James Presbyterian Church, West 141st Street (@ St. Nicholas) Harlem, NY  10031
  • Time: 5-8PM
  • Cost: $20.00 CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

• Friday, June 8th – Harlem Pride Launch Party/Legacy of Pride Awards Sponsored by Bierstrasse 

  • Description: Our Harlem Pride Launch Party is how we kick off our HARLEM PRIDE month long celebration. Get together with us and our community as we set June 2017 off right! We have an OPEN BAR, Food Buffet, music and dancing ALL Night. All for just $25/person. Buy your tickets ASAP as they are limited.
  • Venue: Bierstrasse, W 133rd St & 12th Ave, Harlem, NY 10027
  • Time: 7-10PM
  • Cost: $25.00  CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

• Saturday, June 9th – A Luv Tale: The Series & The Film – Presented in partnership with Gatepass Entertainment With support from Harlem Pride and New York Black Pride

  • Description: Set in culturally rich and historic Harlem, A LUV TALE is an edgy romantic comedy—digital series that examines friendship between four beautiful and cultural lesbians of color navigating their complex lives through a world of art, music, consciousness and love. This special Pride program is part film screening, part conversation and part uptown hang.
  • Venue: Harlem Stage, 150 Convent Avenue, Harlem, NY, 10031
  • Time: 3-8PM (Reception, Screening, and Panel Discussion)
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – RSVP REQUIRED – CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Thursday, June 14th – Letters to Langston: Snapshots of an LGBT Life Presented by Apollo Live Wire In Collaboration with Harlem Pride and I, Too, Arts, Collective

  • Description:  Apollo Live Wire celebrates Harlem’s LGBT community, its friends and neighbors with a presentation on Langston Hughes by Harlem historian, Columbia University Community Scholar, and Harlem Pride Vice President,  John Reddick. Letters to Langston: Snapshots of an LGBT Life will reflect on Hughes’ LGBT friends, colleagues, and romantic associations as viewed through the “camera” lens of his friend, long-time letter correspondent and photographer Carl Van Vechten. The presentation will also include readings of Hughes poetry and musical selections.
  • Venue: Apollo Theater Soundstage, 253 West 125th Street, Harlem, NY 10027
  • Time: 6:30 – 8:30PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – RSVP REQUIRED CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Friday, June 15th – Harlem Pride Trans* Appreciation Reception Sponsored by Bierstrasse

  • Description: Established in 2015, our Annual Trans* Appreciation Reception celebrates and honors our Trans* community members, allies and organizations who make extraordinary contributions to Harlem’s SGL/LGBT community. We have an OPEN BAR, Food Buffet, music and dancing ALL Night.
  • Venue: Bierstrasse, W 133rd St & 12th Ave, Harlem, NY 10027
  • Time: 7-10PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – RSVP REQUIRED CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Tuesday, June 19th -5th Annual Circle of Life Celebration and Pride Memorial Sponsored by Harlem based LGBT Organizations

  • Description: This unique community gathering held in Harlem, commemorates the lives and work of African descendant – LGBTQA/SGL youth, elders, ancestors, and allies. All too frequently African descendant-LGBTQA/SGL persons are denied celebration, honor, and inclusion, within a variety of settings due to the marginalizing shadow of race, class, and gender divides. The Circle of Life Celebration and Pride Memorial addresses this by being a respectful and inclusive celebration that highlights how these lives have enriched us individually and collectively.
  • Venue: National Black Theatre, 2031 5th Avenue, Harlem, NY 10035
  • Time: 6PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Thursday, June 21st – MY HOUSE presented by Maysles Cinema, Studio Museum, and Harlem Pride

  • Description: The VICELAND docu-series My House is an insider’s guide to New York City’s hyper-competitive underground queer ballroom scene. The show follows the lives of inimitable and fierce voguers — Tati 007, Alex Cephus, Alex Mugler, Jelani Mizrahi, Lolita Balenciaga and Relish Milan — while the ultimate expert, Precious Ebony, a bold and brazen commentator on the scene, lays out the rules, the rivalries and all the drama in between. We will present the season conclusion in this screening.  Q&A with director Elegance Bratton, senior producer Giselle Bailey, and My House subjects Tati 007, Alex Cephus, and Lolita Leopard-Balenciaga, moderated by the Studio Museum Rachell Morillo, to follow screening.  Reception sponsored by Harlem Pride to follow program.
  • Venue: Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue @127th Street, Harlem, NY
  • Time: 7:30 – 10:30PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Saturday, June 23rd – 9th Annual Harlem Pride Celebration Day

  • Description: Our Harlem Pride Celebration Day features live entertainment and community tables.  This family oriented festival serves as our greatest opportunity to bring the community together to celebrate our lives and our community!
  • Venue: 12th Avenue between West 135th and West 138th Streets, Harlem, NY
  • Time: 12 Noon – 6PM
  • Cost: FREE ADMISSION – CLICK HERE TO RSVP

• Saturday, June 23rd – 9th Annual Harlem Pride Celebration Day Official AFTER Party 

  • Description: Join us for our Official Harlem Pride Celebration Day After Party hosted by Deangelo Jackson
  • Venue: Alibi Lounge –  2376 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard @ West 139th Street, New York, NY  10030
  • Time: 7:00PM – 4:00AM
  • Cost: $10 Cover at the door/$20 VIP Room

• Sunday, June 24th – Join Harlem Pride In the NYC Pride March!

  • Description: Join Harlem Pride as we march in the 2018 Heritage of Pride March, representing Uptown’s SGL/LGBT community members!
  • Venue: 5th Avenue
  • Time/Location: TBA
  • Cost: FREE – RSVP REQUIRED CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Harlem Pride 2018 Sponsors