Making & Meaning of Pride + Community Sing

Can we hold space across generations to have our multiple conflicting stories and relationships to Pride? Queens Pride, like many mainstream Pride events across the U.S., platforms the police, uplifts corporations, and chooses silence in the face of genocide. Let’s talk across generation gaps about our relationships with the second oldest and second largest pride parade in NYC. Discussion and singing will be held with youth from GenerationQ in Forest Hills and members of the Queens Center for Gay Seniors in Jackson Heights. All are welcome.

Our Stories, Our Songs, is an intergenerational workshop series with Queens Center for Gay Seniors members and youth ages 12-21 from GenerationQ. We are exploring our stories, LGBTQIA+ activism in Queens, and creating protest songs for Pride Month.

Made possible in part with public funds Social Practice CUNY and the 2026 Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.