Official NYC LGBT Pride Rally June 19, 2010

Please join us for the official NYC LGBT Pride Rally! The Rally will feature well-known performers and motivating speakers from the LGBT community to kick-off this year's Pride Week events.

The first NYC LGBT Pride Rally occurred one month after the Stonewall Riots in June 1969 when 500 people gathered for a "Gay Power" demonstration in Washington Square Park. It was followed by a candlelight vigil in Sheridan Square. From 1997 to 2009, the Rally was held in Bryant Park.

This year the Rally is being held from 4 PM to 8 PM at the Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, best known as the site of the park's annual SummerStage concert series and statue of Mother Goose and other nursery-rhyme characters, just outside the entrance. To get there take the 6 train to the 68th St.-Hunter College Stop or the B or C to the 72nd Street stop.

As always the event is free and open to the public with no tickets or advance reservations necessary.

The entire Rally will be ASL interpreted for individuals who are deaf/hard-of-hearing. Ramps allowing those in wheelchairs access are located mid-block on 40th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Part of the northwest corner of the lawn will be reserved for ASL users and those in wheelchairs.

Official Website: http://www.nycpride.org/rally.html