Princeton’s Bayard Rustin Center To Host Pride Parade June 22

PRINCETON - The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice (BRCSJ) will once again organize Princeton’s PRIDE PARADE & AFTER-PARTY on June 22.

The first-ever LGBTQIA Pride was held in 2019 in Princeton, and since then, has only grown bigger.

The parade will kick off at 11 am from the steps of the Princeton Municipal Building on 400 Witherspoon Street. This will be followed by an after-party at the Princeton YMCA’s great field at Paul Robeson Place.

"Every PRIDE is someone's first PRIDE. Every PRIDE allows folx across the rainbow spectrum to see the potential and promise of how they can live their lives fully, who they can love openly and simply and beautifully who they can be,” said BRCSJ Chief Activist & National Organizer Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is a dedicated queer safe space, community activist hub, and educational bridge for LGBTQIA youth, intersectional families, and all marginalized individuals and groups.

At the forefront of intersectional social justice and queer advocacy for over six years, the Center offers robust resources such as their Queer Youth Brigade, Transgender Justice Collective, Birth Justice Repro Rights, HIV testing, annual PRIDE Parade & After-Party, voter registration drives and more.

Their office and safe space is located at 12 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ 08540. This year’s parade is being organized with support from Bristol Myers Squibb, the New Jersey Education Association, Kyowa Kirin, and the Leonard-Litz LGBTQ+ Foundation as well as other local businesses, community organizations, individual donors, friends and allies.

Visit www.rustincenter.org/pride for more information on how to march and participate as well as how to donate, volunteer, or otherwise be of service.

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