You can’t spell without ‘rain’ without ‘rain’.
Despite less than ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day Last Saturday, June 14, without a towbar, with his annual celebration that brought together local queer community members and allies for family-friendly festivities in a 14-block stretch along the Fifth Avenue of Park Slope.
Starting at noon and continuing with good after the sun was undergone, the voluntary-ranked event from a street festival during the day and Twilight Parade that later turned into a full-out block party (no pun meaning), according to tradition. It collected an abundance of local artists and performance groups, cultural organizations, neighborhood companies, health interest groups and city politicians, who have shielded themselves against the rainy weather with plastic ponchos, umbrellas, tents and rubber boots.
There was an undercurrent of urgency for this year’s queer, because it came to President Donald Trump continuous attacks On LGBTQ+ right. This serious feeling was reflected in Anti-Trump signs held by festival visitors who were coming from the “No Kings” protests that took place at the same time about the East River in Midtown Manhattan.
“I think because rights are being withdrawn, things are now feeling more expensive … this [event] Feels more holy this year because it feels fleeting, “said Max Bell, a resident of Brooklyn and ACT Up -member, said Hyperallergic.
While rainbow washed business marketing gimmicks at the festival, local organizations and activist groups also took the opportunity to teach, protest and fundraising. In the middle of the rainy street, an employee of the health department spread free condoms to increase consciousness about sexual health. At a table in the vicinity of an implementation phase, socialist alternative members sold buttons, broads and equipment that discharge Trump’s attacks on trans communities. Other cabins sold posters that compare Trump and Elon Musk with clowns and showed signs that were shown against the shame former governor and the current mayor candidate Andrew Cuomo.
The Pride event also brought together local artists of all media. At the table of Dyke March, organizers in the screening of the organizers prior to the annual protest procession of the group later this month; The group also spread the phrases with the title of this year’s March theme: “Dykes say no to facism.” At another table, Brooklyn Creative ReuseA non -profit organization that collects and reused artificial materials, has collected funds for the upcoming physical location by selling soft used supplies, including quilt -vier edits, buttons, sewing materials and paint.
For the torn Bodice Bookstore, Trans-artist Ash Craig from Queens founded an improvised face-day-standing standard with a spilling theme and offers its services to festival visitors for free. He had decided to be present at the last minute because he was not sure if it would hold on again.
‘[The amount of]People here in the rain show how many people really need the strange joy, “said Craig Hyperallergic.
