Hello, Darlings! Pride season is officially warming up, which means your social calendar is about to become a full-time job. This week: chaotic-good tea dances, burlesque, queer warehouse parties, downtown piano nights, and enough emotionally devastating pop girls to ruin your life in the best possible way. Hydrate, flirt responsibly, and maybe clear your Sunday afternoon now.

Want to spend Pride Weekend dancing under a bridge with Kim Petras, CupcakKe, and half the hot queer people in Brooklyn? LadyLand 2026 hits Under the K Bridge Park on Saturday, 6/27, and yes, you can enter to win tickets! *

JUST ANNOUNCED

• The NYC Pride March just announced its official 2026 Grand Marshals! Bowen Yang, Dominique Jackson, Peppermint, Bernie Wagenblast (voice of the MTA), and Gays Against Guns will be leading this free outdoor event next month.

• The Rainbow Book Fair lands Saturday, 5/9 at the Kaplan Diamond Building, bringing together 100+ queer authors, artists, and publishers. You could win free books from three of its featured authors.*

• Elsewhere Pride is coming on Saturday, 6/27. This chaotic-good queer dance space will be graced by Isabella Lovestory, Lil Mariko, DJ Preciosa, and more!

BEST TEA DANCES IN NYC

A tea dance is basically the queer daytime party you didn’t know you needed. Music, drinks, and a packed dance floor that starts in the afternoon and still somehow feels like a full night out. The tradition goes back decades as a low-key, social way for LGBTQ+ people to gather, flirt, and actually talk before things got loud and late. Here are some of the best tea dances coming up this month.

• 05/09 - ROMY & MICHELLE’S AFTERNOON TEA DANCE @ CLUB CUMMING

• 05/09 - BEAR TEA @ 3 DOLLAR BILL

• 05/10 - SUNDAY TEA DANCE @ THE MONSTER

• 05/17 - SAPPHIC TEA DANCE @ SHY SHY

• 05/17 - LADY BUNNY’S DISCO TEA DANCE @ C’MON EVERYBODY

THIS WEEKEND

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• Broadway’s 2026 Tony Awards season is shaping up to be unusually queer, with productions like Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Titaníque, and The Rocky Horror Show receiving major nominations.

• The NYC Pride March is locking in details for Sunday, 6/28, when millions will take over Manhattan from Fifth Avenue down to Greenwich Village for the city’s biggest (and still free) celebration of queer visibility. Marching since 1970 in honor of the Stonewall Uprising, it’s less a parade and more a moving piece of history, and yes, your entire social calendar will orbit around it.

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