Reclaim Pride To Hold 5th Annual March June 25

WEST VILLAGE, NY — The Reclaim Pride Coalition is holding their fifth annual march this Pride month with the theme of "Trans and Queer, Forever Here."

The annual march — held since 2019 as an alternative to the more mainstream official NYC Pride March — will kick off on June 25 at Foley Square, where the parade will then march to Washington Square Park.

The attacks on queer communities is unprecedented, said Reclaim Pride Coalition co-founder, Jay W. Walker, comparing the goal of what he called "the christo-fascist patriarcy" crusade to make the country into a "replica of Margaret Atwood's Gilead."

"As they flail about, spewing venom at our communities, we know that by standing proudly in our truth and speaking that truth every day, especially at Pride," said Walker, "we are stating very clearly that we shall not be moved.”

“Our trans and queer youth need us now more than ever,” said Reclaim Pride Coalition organizer Meg Jones, “with the myriad legislative efforts continuously being thrown at us, we need to continue to come together in community, to protect and support our queer and trans youth as they confront horrors no one should ever have to face.”

The Reclaim Pride March has attracted up to 50,000 marchers every year since it was founded in 2019 and has a markedly more political and protest-rooted vibe than official Pride parades.

"The Queer Liberation March embodies the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising," their website reads, "social justice, freedom, and access for all!"