TRANS EVENTS🏳️🌈WEEKEND (6/16 - 6/18)
Music, drag, parties, clowns, book crawl! The weekend before Pride approaches. There's even a picnic and dance meet up for people who need some time to chill.
FRIDAY
6 PM | Summer Solstice Celebration🎵
Manhattan | Washington Square Park | 6 PM - 7:30 PM | More Info
Join us for a free, outdoor celebration of the summer solstice, featuring music from our upcoming Pride Concert. (Weather permitting! Check Trascend's Insta for updates.)
We are a New York-based trans / gender-expansive vocal ensemble whose focus is on creating inclusive, supportive performance and musical experiences, while exploring the unique aural aesthetic of trans and atypical voices singing classical works together.
7 PM | Theater Camp👑
Long Island City | Culture Lab | 7 PM | More Info | Tickets
Welcome to Theater Camp, a space for all the queer and trans ex drama kids in the NYC drag & burlesque scene to showcase the earnest, raunchy musical theater acts of their wildest dreams.
11 PM | Out of the Closet Pride Party🪩
Ridgewood | Trans Pecos | 11 PM | More Info | Tickets
SATURDAY
12 AM | Fever // Dream🪩
East Williamsburg | 47 Thames St | 12 AM - 8 AM | More Info | Tickets
FEVER // DREAM - a two night affair with RadiofaceNYC to get ready for PRIDE WEEKEND. Night one (June 16th, Friday Night - Saturday Morning) is FEVER - our hard rave night. Expect hard techno, industrial ecstasy, and bass vibrating your body and soul.
12 PM | Lower East Side Book Crawl🫂📚
Lower East Side | Lower East Side | 12 PM - 7 PM | More Info
Head to the following bookstores—Bluestockings, Printed Matter, Book Club Bar, Sweet Pickle Books, P&T Knitwear, and Yu & Me Books—between 12 pm & 7 pm for discounts, perks, and queer books! Go in any order you choose, no reservation required.
1 PM | T4T NYC's A Very Gay Picnic🫂
Park Slope | Prospect Park Picnick House | 1 PM | More Info | Tickets
Come join @t4t.nyc for a very gay picnic! Pride is all about community and what better way to celebrate that than sharing snacks under the sun with other queer folks? Can’t wait to see you there!
2 PM | Chichi's Secret Garden🎵
Bushwick | Secret Pour | 2 PM - 7 PM | More Info
Discotheque tunes, performances, and queer vendors! Free self-defense kits will be available to API Femmes, API Women, Gender Expansive APIs, & BIPOC Transwomen
4 PM | Stand Up Pride😂
East Williamsburg | 3 Dollar Bill | 4 PM - 4 AM | More Info | Tickets
Stand Up NYC returns on June 17th for an all day Pride party full of drag, music, prizes, vendors, and so much more! We’re so thrilled to announce our initial lineup of performers, the charities we’re supporting, and our call for vendors, raffle prizes, sponsors + more!
4 PM | Transhumance🎭
The Kraine Theater | 4 PM | Tickets
Two performances: June 17th @ 4pm and June 22nd @ 7pm
Transhumance takes a surreal journey across the landscape of gender, as NYC-based clown Ania Upstill playfully explores what it means to be a trans human. Winner of a Best Weekly Award for Circus and Physical Theatre at Adelaide Fringe in 2020, and 4-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets on a sliding scale; Streaming option available
4 PM | Lil Park Drag Show: Black Joy👑
RSVP for Location | 4 PM | More Info | Tickets
Join us for Lil Park Drag Show: BLACK JOY, Hosted by OM3N and Blaque Diamond The Trans God. Vendors at 4pm, show at 5pm.
Entry is pay-what-you-will, no one turned away for lack of funds. Outdoors and open to all! Don't forget to tip the performers! Cash and digital payment options will be accepted.
7 PM | The Drag Album🎵👑
The Kraine Theater | 7 PM - 8 PM | Tickets
Did you know that the New York City drag community comprises not just an amazing array of drag artists, but also many performers who also compose music? Presented by Sam Bam Thankyoumaam, The Drag Album will be a cabaret of drag artists performing their own work. Come see both Queerly alums and new faces as this celebration of both original drag and original music.
Tickets on a sliding scale
8 PM | Transcendence: The Juneteenth Takeover👑
Astoria | Grove 34 | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
This Pride month, Haus of Melt is showcasing the drag talents of our incredible all-black cast for our Juneteenth Takeover. 🏳️⚧️🖤✨
People look to New York City for inspiration. Our cast represents some of the best Queen, King, and Thing talent in New York City. This cast is something special and their art will inspire the next generation of drag
8 PM | Max Talay Single Release & Pre-Top Surgery Bash🎵
Bed-Stuy | Wet Spot | 8 PM | More Info | Tickets
Max Talay is your friendly neighborhood transsexual singer-songwriter. Playing with Carmen Castillo and Swan Real as a power trio, his songs kick you in the gut and melt your little heart. In addition to touring the states and beyond these days as a guitarist for acts like Ezra Furman and Maude LaTour, Max has been slinging his songs around the New York open mic and club scene for a righteous decade or so. Max’s newest single “Trangender Dreams” is available everywhere on June 17th.
Featuring PrettyPretty, Skylar Pocket, & sandile
SUNDAY
12 AM | Fever // Dream🪩
East Williamsburg | 47 Thames St | 12 AM - 8 AM | More Info | Tickets
FEVER // DREAM - a two night affair with RadiofaceNYC to get ready for PRIDE WEEKEND. The second night (June 17th, Saturday night - Sunday morning) is DREAM - is our ethereal rave night - Expect to fall into a hypnotic trance, and to be overcome by the mesmerizing beauty of house, jungle, dnb, and more.
12 PM | Trans Dance Park Meetup🫂🕺
Central Park | Sheep's Meadow | 12 PM | More Info
Come join us in Sheep’s Meadow to celebrate pride! Bring anyone and anything you want! Everyone is welcome regardless of orientation!!! We can even dance in the park if we’re feelin it!
3 PM | Sing Me To Heaven: A Pride Concert 🎵
Greenwich Village | St. John's In the Village | 3 PM | Tickets
In celebration of Pride, TRANScend offers a choral concert celebrating the moments in life that uplift our spirits and bring us closer to each other.
We are a New York-based trans / gender-expansive vocal ensemble whose focus is on creating inclusive, supportive performance and musical experiences, while exploring the unique aural aesthetic of trans and atypical voices singing classical works together.
7 PM | Queer Clown Cabaret👑🃏
Garment District | The Tank | 7 PM - 8 PM | Tickets
We’re here, we’re queer, and we are very serious (about silliness). For one night only, we want to showcase NYC’s queerest clowns at their most ridiculous. From sexy clown-burlesque to biting social commentary to gender-defying drag to pure unadulterated chaos, there’s something for everyone.