RECLAIM PRIDE COALITION ANNOUNCES
4th ANNUAL QUEER LIBERATION MARCH FOR PRIDE SUNDAY, 2022
& TOWN HALL FOR MAR 6, 2022
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(RPC) Jay W. Walker 917-776-4146
(RPC) Paul Nocera 347-645-6509
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RECLAIM PRIDE COALITION WILL HOLD FOURTH QUEER LIBERATION MARCH ON PRIDE SUNDAY, 2022.
LGBTQIA2S+ COMMUNITY WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS ON JUNE 26TH.
RPC TO HOLD TOWN HALL TO ENGAGE NYC LGBTQIA2S+ COMMUNITIES.
New York City, February 16, 2022
The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) will take to the streets on Sunday, June 26th to stage the fourth annual Queer Liberation March (QLM). As in the last three years, this is a peaceful People’s March with no regimented contingents, no corporate sponsors, and no NYPD control over decision making, nor uniformed police marching. The Queer Liberation March revives the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising: social justice, freedom, and access for all!
Over the last two years, our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming (LGBTQIA2S+) communities have endured extraordinary challenges and difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, its societal effects and economic fallout, continued violent attacks committed by the NYPD on peaceful protesters, murders of Black Trans Women, and the public expressions of anti-Trans bigotry and racism by alleged members of our communities and supposed allies, among many other issues of importance to our intersectional coalition.
The extraordinary level of participation by our richly diverse communities over the past three years has proven the hunger for the type of Pride event that the Queer Liberation March represents: one that offers LGBTQIA2S+ people an opportunity to come together and march as one!
The organizers of the QLM recognize the challenges our almost all-volunteer team of organizers have faced in creating a safe, welcoming, and inclusive March: from communications failures both within our organizing team and externally to our wider communities and volunteer shortages, to the continued harassment by members of the New York Police Department’s Emergency Response Team, which stationed phalanxes near our March endpoint and then used obvious pretexts to brutally attack community members gathered near the Washington Square Arch after the conclusion of both the 2020 and 2021 marches.
It is with these challenges in mind, that Reclaim Pride Coalition is announcing an online QLM Town Hall to account for past mistakes, share information about the process we have undergone as an organization to address those mistakes, discuss the realities of holding a liberationist and abolitionist march in a city that is now led by an NYPD veteran who has demonstrated in his short time in office a lasting antipathy to reforming even the worst, most racist, most homophobic and transphobic aspects of New York City’s police force, much less the NYPD itself. The town hall will take place on Sunday, March 6, from 3pm - 5pm. All members of New York City’s rich and varied LGBTQIA2S+ communities are invited to attend, participate, share their thoughts and volunteer to help produce the event. Due to security concerns, prior registration will be required to attend. A link to register will be posted on all RPC social media platforms and on the homepage at www.reclaimpridenyc.org. Press is invited to attend.
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Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) is a New York City-based group of LGBTQIA2S+ activists in alliance with dozens of grassroots community groups, nationally and internationally. RPC’s primary work is organizing the Queer Liberation March (QLM). In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, RPC mobilized more than 45,000 people to recreate the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March route uptown from Stonewall to Central Park. In 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic, RPC held the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality. The QLM is the annual people’s protest Pride march, without corporate funding; corporate floats; politicians’ grandstanding; or police control or involvement.
For Reclaim Pride Coalition’s complete statements of purpose
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RPC 2020 March - Demands & Safety Info
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