RECLAIM PRIDE COALITION ANNOUNCES MARCH ROUTE AND THEME FOR THE 6/29/25 QUEER LIBERATION MARCH.

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2025 Queer Liberation March Will Fight Against the Rising Tide of Fascism, Persecution of LGBTQIA2S+ People and Communities, and All Americans.

Title and March Route Announced

New York City

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

As the results of the 2024 election have made clear that America’s LGBTQIA2S+ communities are under the greatest threat from the federal government we have experienced since the 1969 Stonewall uprising, The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) has announced that this year’s 7th annual Queer Liberation March (QLM) on Sunday, June 29th will be:

The Queer Liberation March: Resist! Reclaim! Rejoice!

RPC also announced that the March will assemble at 11 AM at the NYC AIDS Memorial and St. Vincent’s Triangle Park (7th Avenue between Greenwich and West 12th Streets) and march north to Lenape Circle, dispersing into Central Park.

According to RPC Co-Founder, Jay W. Walker, "The decision to assemble at The AIDS Memorial was born of a desire both to honor the history of our communities' resilience in the face of a hostile federal government, and to return the energy of Queer Liberation to Midtown Manhattan, as we did with our first two Marches.”

The organizers expect this year's March to be the largest ever, greater than the 45,000 marchers who participated in the first March in 2019.

“The Trump Administration’s and its allies’ unrelenting attacks on our communities – particularly Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming people – combined with their horrific assaults on immigrants, healthcare, civil liberties, freedom of speech, student organizers and our constitutional rights, as well as global rise in fascism and right wing ideology make this year’s Queer Liberation March more necessary than ever,” said RPC organizer, Jasmina Jz Sinanovic.

According to the organizers, Queer Liberation March is, and has always been, a protest. “That is our purpose. We don’t simply honor or highlight the proud tradition of protest that has achieved every advance in our struggle,” said Jene Patterson, a member of the organizing team. “We continue that tradition, recognizing the intersectional struggles: race, class, gender, immigration status, bodily autonomy, and so much more, that the entire country is witnessing in this moment and invite all who share our concerns for the future of our country and democracy to join us!”

The organizers also stress that the movement for Queer Liberation is and has always been global. “The recent ban of Pride celebrations in Hungary and the UK Supreme Court decision delegitimizing Trans identities only serve to highlight how the global rise in fascism and authoritarianism is inevitably accompanied by attacks, scapegoating, and dehumanizing policies concerning LGBTQIA people, identities, and communities” said Walker.

Reclaim Pride Coalition will also launch a new website, https://www.queermarch.org, very soon, encouraging community members to visit to find out more about the history of the March, to sign up to help organize, to volunteer on Pride Sunday, or to give a tax exempt donation.

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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. 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, under the darkness 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 march without corporate funding; corporate floats; politicians’ grandstanding; or police control or involvement.