Heritage of Pride (HOP dba NYC Pride) organizes the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events. HOP is a non-profit organization that began producing New York City's Pride events in 1984, building on the work of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, who organized the first March in 1970. That march brought national attention to 1969's Stonewall Riots, one of many occurring in the US at the time.
After the 1970 event, Pride chapters formed in cities across the US. Pride London was the first non-US city to rise in support of Gay Rights in 1972 and Pride festivals (or Christopher Street Days) now occur on six continents. The official LGBTQIA+ Pride events for New York City end on the last Sunday of each June. Additional events in New York City are organized by Brooklyn and Queens Pride chapters. Antarctica has yet to officially organize a Pride Chapter but in 2016 it was declared the world's first LGBT friendly continent.
HOP is a volunteer spearheaded organization working by Robert's Rules 50 weeks a year to execute the activities of NYC Pride Week. The voting membership elects two Co-Chairs onto an Executive Board with Committee Directors. Until 2002 all NYC Pride Week activities were organized by volunteers. That January Anthony D. Dean began work as the first full-time paid Business Development Director of NYC Pride events. By late 2016 HOP had five employees working year-round from a rented basement office on Christopher Street. They assist in coordinating the desires of Membership- who work on behalf of the larger community. Membership is open to all individuals.
What began as a March has grown to more than a dozen events which comprise NYC PRIDE week including The March, The Rally, PrideFest, and Pride Island- a multi-day cultural experience (evolution from Dance on the Pier: 1987-2017). Pride Island is the final event held each year and culminates with the second largest annual fireworks display in Manhattan, bested only by Macy's 4th of July Fireworks. During Pride Month many facets of the community gather and join voices. In 2017, ABC7 broadcast three hours of HOP's Pride March for the first time, also making some content available on the Internet. The run time of the March was 9 hours, 38 minutes. The broadcast was nominated for a 2018 New York Emmy Award.
In July 2009 HOP began planning for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Additional programming was envisioned for the coming years and by 2011 had become a reality. In 2014 World Bank began discussing the economic cost of exclusion. UNHRC's Free & Equal has put that figure at 5% of GDP.
In 1997 HOP hosted the 16th annual conference of InterPride where the membership voted to establish WorldPride.
In 2017, the LGBT Pride March brought together more than 450 contingents including 110 floats. The route traverses Fifth Avenue and includes streets in Greenwich Village. The March passes by the site of the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, location of the Stonewall riots which launched the modern gay rights movement.
Heritage of Pride is a founding member of InterPride and a member of Northeast Regional Pride, the International Lesbian and Gay Association, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association.
The theme chosen for 2018 was "Defiantly Different".
Video Heritage of Pride
See also
- InterPride
- New York City LGBT Pride March
- LGBT history
- LGBT culture in New York City
- Roy and Silo
Maps Heritage of Pride
References
External links
- "Arcive Record #86 - Heritage of Pride Records". gaycenter.org. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
- Official NYC Pride website
- Guidetogay.com - Official NYC Pride international media partner
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