When the play opens, the couple have been together for four and a half decades, examining their relationship to answer the question: what if life had a rewind button? The performance will take place at 2pm and 7:30pm on June 5 at Mass MoCA.
The show challenges the concept of time to tell the love story of a lesbian couple, Vicky and Erica. WAM Theatre is partnering with the Berkshire Stonewall Community to present a reading of “Bright Half Life” by Tanya Barfield at Mass MoCA as part of the museum’s Fresh Takes series. Tickets are available on Peekskill Brewery’s website for $20 per person. All proceeds from the party will go to Peekskill Pride. They will also host local vendors and artisans.
This event is full of activities for everyone, featuring live music from Mishti (a queer singer, songwriter and guitarist), drag performances, drag bingo, spoken word performances and giveaways. Peekskill Brewery is hosting an outdoor pride party from 11am to 6pm on June 5.
Peekskill Brewery Presents: Pride Party | June 5 RSVPing is encouraged to Dutchess County Pride Center at or 84. Hannafords is providing boxed lunch and Stewarts is supplying ice cream for all attendants. Local businesses will be providing food and ice cream during the event. For all Harry Potter fans, there will be a Quidditch game held at 3pm to raise money for their Trans Mutual Aid Fund. Rainbow run is a fundraising run/walk and pet pride involves participants posting pictures of their pets celebrating pride on Instagram with the tag County Pride Center: Youth Pride Picnic | June 4Īt Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls, the Dutchess County Pride Center is hosting a picnic full of fun activities for kids in the area. And families can try their luck together at drag bingo on June 6 or at a virtual Trivia Night on June 18., and two month long events that can be completed virtually (pet pride and rainbow run). Programming for adults includes a reading of a play via Zoom about gay conversion therapy titled “ Ex Gay Bar” by David Simpatico dinner and dancing with comedian Lea DeLaria on June 11. The youth group can enjoy a rainbow prom on June 5, a pride skate night at Hyde Park Roller Magic on June 13, and an NYC Pride watch party on June 26.
Poughkeepsie GO Pride is partnering with local organizations to host a series of events all month long divided by age group (youth only, adult only, and family-friendly). At Saturday’s parade, Zotique and Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson will share Grand Marshal duties. The Rainbow Flag will be raised at City Hall on Friday, June 3 followed by an opening for an exhibition of work by Hudson Valley queer artists at the Athens Cultural Center, and a dance party at Space 428 of the Hudson Eye. OutHudson kicks off five full days of 13th Annual Pride celebrations on Wednesday, June 1, with three events: a dedicated can launch at a Nine Pin Cidery in Albany, family crafts at the Hudson Library, a wine-sip evening to benefit Planned Parenthood at Sprig & Social in Hudson. The opposite of pride is shame, right? And shame is just a truly negative frequency and one that we need to disrupt whenever possible.” “There has been a vast improvement in the social and political climate, but we still live in a world where gender and sexual preference can be discriminated against in too many situations,” says Zotique. Parades and festivities are happening in municipalities up and down the river, including Beacon, Highland, Peekskill, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Callicoon, Brewster, and South Salem. Paused along with most every sort of communal fun for the last couple of years, the many chapters of Hudson Valley Pride are roaring back to joyous life. Our part of the world is blessed with more than a little. “I think the whole world could use a little of that right now.” “As queer activists, we’re practiced and gifted at thinking beyond boxes and binaries we’re well equipped to bring harmony and love to chaotic situations, says Osun Zotique, executive director of OutHudson. Wade with arguments that threaten the whole concept of equal protection and hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills on legislative agendas across the nation, it’s clear that advocates for equality can’t afford to sit back and rest.Īll the more reason for a fierce and joyous Pride Month. But with conservatives on the Supreme Court training their sights on Roe v. It’s been 18 years since New Paltz Mayor Jason West brought the national media to the region to witness his solemnization of the vows of 25 same-sex couples, 11 years since the passage of the New York Marriage Equality Act, and seven since marriage became nationally protected by Obergefell v.