Events & Festivals

Every year, there are numerous LGBTQ festivals, events, and marches held throughout the boroughs, with NYC Pride being the most well-known. NYC Pride is a celebration of the LGBT community that was established the year following the Stonewall riots. It draws tens of thousands of participants and millions of onlookers to the sidewalks each June, making it one of the biggest annual Pride marches in the entire world.

• DragCon NYC is the annual drag conference takes place in New York. In this event, you can meet some of your favorite queens and a ton of other amazing celebrities, take part in competitions, watch performances by special guests, and attend discussion panels.

• The only comic book and art fair in New York City that exclusively features LGBTQ illustration and sequential art is called Queer Comic Fair. Although New York City is home to many fantastic queer-themed conventions and fairs, the NYC Queer Comic Fair is the city's first event solely dedicated to queer comics, graphic novels, illustrated stories, photo-comics, and/or any other intriguing approach to the still-visual storytelling and/or illustration medium.

• New York Fashion Week (Queer Fashion Show) is held each September. dapperQ, a leading digital queer style magazine, produces the largest queer fashion show during New York Fashion Week. Over 70 models participate in the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, which features a variety of body types, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and gender identities. The event draws more than 2,000 attendees.