Brooklyn Pride 2022 Returns To Park Slope: Festival, Parade, 5K

BROOKLYN, NY — In Brooklyn, the borough's pride parade is an all-day event — and then some.

Brooklyn Pride Week, organized by the non-profit Brooklyn Pride, culminates this weekend with a slate of events in Park Slope, notably including the borough's annual Pride Parade on Saturday.

Before the nighttime parade, though (which prides itself on being the only twilight Pride parade in the northeast) there will be a packed day of events, including an outdoor festival and Prospect Park 5K.

The festivities continue on Sunday, when Brooklyn Pride is organizing the borough's first-ever Youth Pride event.

Whether you want to cheer on a rainbow-festooned float, get your face painted with glitter or see a drag performance, here's everything you need to know about the final weekend of Brooklyn Pride 2022.

Brooklyn Pride LGBTQIA+ 5K Run/Walk

Organized in partnership with Front Runners New York, an an LGBT running club with workouts in Brooklyn and Manhattan, this 5K charts a course around Prospect Park. The two-hour race, which starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, is sold out, but spectators can still come and cheer on runners at what organizers describes "everyone’s favorite queer running event." More details here.

Brooklyn Pride Festival

Park Slope's Fifth Avenue Open Street is getting a Pride-twist between Union and Ninth Street from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. A selection of local organizations and businesses will set up on the pedestrianized stretch of Park Slope, with a family fun zone at Old Stone House with face painting and story-time alike. More details here.

Brooklyn Main Stage

As part of the Pride festival, an entertainment stage will be set up on Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street from noon to 6 p.m. featuring a range of hip-hop, drag and rock performers. More details here.

Brooklyn Pride Parade

The main event of the day — rather, night — will start Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and run until 11 p.m. on Fifth Avenue from Lincoln Place to Ninth Street. Expect rainbow floats, music, local queer groups and more. More details here.

LGBTQ Bar Events

The party will continue even later at two nearby LGBTQ bars in Park Slope, which were deemed among the best spots in the city to celebrate Pride.

Good Judy, a queer bar and event venue, is organizing back-to-back (no cover) music events Saturday — starting with piano bar music and transitioning to "queer bops and beats" later in the evening. The bar is also hosting "Vibe With Me Brooklyn Pride Finale Party" Sunday night.

Ginger's Bar, a beloved lesbian bar (the only one in Brooklyn), is the self-described "center of the BK Pride party" with plans to keep the music going, and drinks flowing, "all night long!!"

Youth Pride

Festivities continue Sunday, as Brooklyn Pride puts on its first-ever Youth Pride, a space designed by and for LGBTQIA+ youth and allies ages 13 to 20. The event kicks off at 12:30 p.m. with a block party-style event on Sackett Street between Third and Fourth Avenues; at 3:30 p.m. the event will transition inside to Littlefield, a nearby event venue, where young people will put on a music performance and kiki ball, which will end around 5 p.m. More details here.