It’s Pride Month! 'Tis the season to don your gay apparel and join the millions of other people celebrating in New York City – the birthplace of the modern Pride movement – over the next four weeks.

Like last summer, this year’s Pride Month comes as the White House continues to roll back legal protections for LGBTQ+ Americans. And it’s hitting close to home for New Yorkers too: local hospitals have stopped offering gender affirming care to minors, while the Pride flag was temporarily removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village.

This June is also off to a rough start: the nonprofit behind the NYC Pride March said it’s half a million dollars short of the budget it needs to put on all of its events after losing funding from some major corporate sponsors. And a lesbian bar in Brooklyn canceled some of its events this month citing neighborhood noise concerns.

Some activists argue that the current climate only makes showing up – whether it’s to the streets or the local bar – even more important than ever. To help you figure out how to spend the next couple of weeks, here’s a list of some of the largest – and most entertaining – Pride events happening in New York City this month.

Attend a Pride march (or two)

People far and wide will flock to Flatiron on June 28 for a march that’ll travel past the Stonewall Inn – the site of the 1969 uprising – and through Greenwich Village for NYC Pride 2026. Comedian Bowen Yang, as well as Bernie Wagenblast, known as “the voice of the MTA,” are two of the folks tapped as this year’s grand marshals.

The Queer Liberation March – which touts itself as a corporation-free event and an alternative to the Pride March – will take place on the same day. The Dyke March will also run that same weekend. It starts at Bryant Park and ends at Washington Square Park, where some attendees are known to dive into the fountain afterwards.

And there are borough-specific marches, which will take place earlier in the month, like Da Bronx Pride Festival, on June 20. Brooklynites will be celebrating with their own week-long affair running from June 8 to June 13.

Watch people duke it out – for fun!

For those wanting a grungier take on Pride, or simply an evening of total chaos, there are multiple opportunities to watch people go toe-to-toe in June.

People are once again expected to show up in droves at Singers, a queer bar in Bed-Stuy, which will host its fifth annual wrestling competition, aptly titled Twinks v. Dolls, on June 20. There will be dancing drag queens and a chance to win a $1,000 grand prize.

For those interested in a more sapphic brawl: masc, butch and stud-identifying lesbians, and other gender-conforming people, will be the fighters in a must-see oil-wrestling match. Lez Get Physical is hosting the slippery competition, which will take place on June 5 in East Williamsburg.

And there’s OutBox Gym, a Bushwick-based boxing and fitness studio geared towards the LGBTQ+ community. It will be the venue for a queer wrestling speed dating event on June 6 and host a Muay Thai workshop during its queer fight club on June 14.

Grab a pair of wheels and skate into the arms of someone new (or an ex)

If marching isn’t exactly your thing, you can always grab a pair of wheels.

Brooklyn Pride will be kicking off its week-long celebration by taking over Xanadu Roller Arts, in Bushwick, on June 5.

The Brooklyn skating rink will also be the venue of choice for Woodshop Pride on June 27. The sapphic-centered event will have a skate session from 7 to 10 p.m. before the space turns into a dance floor for the rest of the night.

And Fruit Stand — a party for lesbians, queer women and nonbinary people — will be taking over the Substance Skatepark in East Williamsburg with tickets covering entry and unlimited drinks for the entire night.

Cuddle up next to your loved ones in front of the big screen

Pride Month is a great time to be a cinephile in the city. NewFest Pride will be running a summer series of both indoor and outdoor screenings of queer films from May 28 to June 1. And yes, this includes a free outdoor screening of the smash-hit "Heated Rivalry" at Pier 17.

You can celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Watermelon Woman," the first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, with a screening at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem on June 11.

And for more Black queer cinema, the Lesbian Herstory Archives will host a Black Lesbian Double Documentary with screenings of “Butch Mystique” and “Jumpin’ the Broom” on June 4.

Meanwhile, the Alamo Drafthouse will be screening “But I’m A Cheerleader” at its FiDi location on June 14. Attendees can expect some on-theme props, like carabiners, a Pride flag and, of course, pom poms.

Get your sweat on (for a good cause)

There’s a long and storied history of organized sports clubs serving as de facto watering holes for queer people. And the vast network of queer sports leagues and programming in New York City alone is a testament to this.

Whether it’s by joining run clubs, like Front Runners and Queer Feet, or, for gymnastics lovers, Queer Flips, there are plenty of ways to find sports-specific events for queer athletes (and their fans).

And if recreational sports aren’t your thing, then there are still ways to break a sweat in celebration of Pride.

Cyclebar’s NoHo location is hosting a 75-minute long spin class on June 13 with proceeds benefiting the NYC LGBTQ Center. And the Brooklyn Strength Club is letting people deadlift for charity on June 14 with the cost of entry benefiting The Trevor Project.

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned party

While the last weekend of June is the official Pride weekend celebration, there are a dizzying number of parties happening all over the city this month.

Early bird tickets have already been on sale for some of these parties, including Papi Juice, Futch, Que Perra!, Konsa NYC!, and Daddies, Dolls & Dykes — just to name a few.

Between decades-old institutions like the Stonewall Inn to the newly established like Gladys Books & Wine, it may be easier to find a place in the city that won’t be celebrating Pride in some way. On any day of the week, stop into the dozens of gay, lesbian and queer- owned bars and businesses in the city you’ll find a DJ set up and hordes of residents and out-of-towners eager to celebrate.