Virtual Pride 2020

NYC rainbow lights during Pride Week 2020. Photo ©Alina Oswald.

How to celebrate global Pride 2020 on Saturday, June 27

The first Pride was a march, and took place fifty years ago, in 1970. This June, in 2020, because of Covid-19, we have no choice but to celebrate half a century of Pride through global virtual Pride events happening all day, on Saturday, June27.

But each one of us can celebrate Pride 2020 in our own way, sharing Pride memories, images, videos, writing, and so on.

Here are a few Pride memories of my own:

NYC Reclaim Pride March, June 30, 2019, same day as NYC/World Pride 2019.
Marching with Visual AIDS in NYC Pride 2019 and distributing What Is 21st Century Liberation broadsheets created by Avram Finkelstein for Visual AIDS. Photo by Alina Oswald.
June 6, 2019: Visual AIDS What Is 21st Century Liberation? installation opening party at New York Live Arts. Avram Finkelstein and Rodrigo Moreira designed the What Is 21st Century Liberation broadsheet for Visual AIDS in conjunction with the 50th annivesary of Stonewall Riots.
Marching with Visual AIDS in NYC Pride 2019 and distributing What Is 21st Century Liberation broadsheets created by Avram Finkelstein for Visual AIDS. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Marching with Visual AIDS in NYC Pride 2019 and distributing What Is 21st Century Liberation broadsheets created by Avram Finkelstein for Visual AIDS. Photo by Alina Oswald
Marching in World (NYC) Pride 2019, distributing copies of What Is 21st Century Liberation broadsheet. Many thanks to Visual AIDS for photographing during the march and sharing the images.
Pride exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Art After Stonewall show at Leslie-Lohman Museum in NYC. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Actor and activist Ron B at Brooklyn Pride March 2019. The only twilight Pride in NYC. Photo by Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.
NYC Pride March. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Billie Jean King at NYC Pride March 2018. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2013. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2013. Photo by Alina Oswald.
New York City Pride march and related Pride photography, June 30, 2013.
NYC Pride March 2009. Photo by Alina Oswald.
New York City Pride march and related Pride photography, June 30, 2013.
NYC Pride March 2013. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Rainbow Flag at NYC Pride. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Jonathan Groff at NYC Pride 2014. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2013. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2014. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2014. Photo by Alina Oswald.
NYC Pride March 2014. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Photographing NYC Pride 2014.
Photographing NYC Pride 2014.
Rainbow Balloons for JC Pride Fest. ©Alina Oswald.
Rainbow and US flags at Jersey City City Hall for JC Pride. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Lovari performs at JC Pride. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Lady Clover Honey performing at Jersey City Pride 2019. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Storefront decorated for JC Pride Fest 2018. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Rainbow heart-shaped candies at Jersey City Pride Fest. ©Alina Oswald.
Manhattan skyline at night illuminated by NYC Pride 2017 fireworks. Photo by Alina Oswald.
Photographing NYC Pride March 2018.
The Empire State Building turn rainbow for NYC Pride. Photo by Alina Oswald.

And here are a few articles covering LGBTQ+ profiles I’ve written over the years:

BACKBONE – a #tbt photography book celebrating LGBTQ+ unsung heroes

LGBT Survival Guide – an interview with NYC artist and curator, Steed Taylor. Article published in A&U Magazine–America’s AIDS Magazine

Herstory Matters: An interview with award-winning filmmaker, Megan Rossman, about her latest documentary, The Archivettes, published in Out IN Jersey Magazine

COVID-19 NJ Stories: I appreciate Garden State artists and authors for sharing their personal COVID-19 stories with me. Read about them in Out IN Jersey Magazine.

Happy Pride!