Alive After Five 2019: What You Need To Know

Alive After Five in Patchogue is back.

The long-running summer series, which brings community members together for a few nights out, will kick off its first date on June 27.

The first Thursday of the summer will feature the theme "Celebrating Pride Month and the LGBTQ Community."

On July 11, the theme will "Celebrating Our Armed Forces," and on July 25 it will be "Celebrating Women in the Arts." Finally, on Aug. 8, the theme will be "Celebrating our Cultural Diversity."

All four Alive After Five dates are free and feature six stages with live music and entertainment, more than 90 craft and retail vendors, 11 food trucks, children's activities, a Chinese auction and more.

This is the first year the event will have a Pride theme, which drew criticism and an anti-LGBTQ email threatening "trouble."

In April, an anonymous email saying "there will be trouble for sure" if the festival is allowed to happen this summer was sent to festival organizers and LGBTQ community members.

The letter mentioned David Kilmnick of the LGBT Network of New York, and said "that 'Pride' parades have appeared in other towns is scary enough."

"We are out there fiercer than ever before," Kilmnick said in a tweet. "And to the writer, if you think my 'kingdom' is spreading too far, you ain't seen nothing yet!"