Hi Gay! 👋 

Happy Pride and welcome to NYC!

I went through the parties I know about & sifted through the endless amounts of others. I have listed them here for you. If you want to look directly yourself, look at Funqtion (ticketed parties) & Thotyssey (includes gay bar events). 

Many things are sold out, but you can (cautiously) find folks selling tickets here, here, and sometimes on the venue's ticketing platform. If you see something you really want to go to, let me know and I can keep an eye out as well. 

Here's what caught my eye: 

Nick's Notes:

• Very solid - usually great party with lots of hot guys. Music ranges from decent to very good, depends on how much you like disco. You'd have fun either way.. Usually has a dark room.

Merge is a Brooklyn-based, queer party that aims to cultivate sonic liminoid experiences through techno music. We will work together to incubate the collective queer body, and experience its transformation under the influence of techno. We seek release, mutual understanding, deeper access to the personal, interconnected, and ethereal. We honor the sound through dance, self expression, and hyper-immersion.

We're stretching things out to a full-on Weekender for this year's edition. Yep - that's right - 2 nights of MERGE PRIDE! From 10pm-noon on both Friday (6/27) and Saturday (6/28), we push the DIY format forward in a new sprawling multi-room warehouse with 22 of underground music's most adventurous and cunty queer artists.

Both nights are set with two rooms of music - one pushing our classic take on techno, and the other giving anything goes, and everything slays, darling. 

Expect MERGE!

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An email with event details/location will be sent to ticket holders at 8pm on 6/27!

Nick's Notes:

• This is the party I want to go to this year, but since my friend's husband has a leg injury, might not be able to go

• I have heard nothing but glowing reviews of this party - especially if you are there to hear good music, dance with hotties, and have done the other parties already. 

• Usually in Brooklyn. 

From a small town in Michigan to being called one of “electronic music’s brightest rising stars” - Wreckno is a 27 year old queer rapper/producer/DJ creating a safe space for LGBTQ+ people in the Bass Music/EDM world. His music has charted #1 in TikTok's Pride category (followed by Donna Summer & Madonna), was featured in Fortnite, and has garnered support from some of EDM’s biggest acts. Wreckno’s recent EP, PANSY, explored the concept of reclaiming and finding power in hate speech once used against him. Paper Magazine stated that the release “puts queer empowerment first and obliterates the competition in the process.” Releases with Rezz, GRiZ, Liquid Stranger, Boogie T, Zeke Beats, and many other juggernauts in the EDM bass world!

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At the helm of the next generation of emerging electronic music artists, Moore Kismet is in a class of their own. Born Omar Davis in Southern California, the non-binary and pansexual 17-year-old musical prodigy has become an advocate for LGBTQ+ teens and represents the beauty of what it means to be who you are. Moore Kismet has been included on Billboard’s 21 Under 21 annual list two years in a row (2020, 2021) and become the youngest artist to perform at Lollapalooza and EDC Las Vegas in 2021 — Moore Kismet demonstrates how to be unlike anyone else by being unapologetically yourself.

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SILO is a new 500-cap multi-genre music and event space built in a converted hangar in East Williamsburg, the hub of Brooklyn's new nightlife scene.

Nick's Notes:

• Never been to this venue, but if everything else is sold out on Friday, could be a fun option.

GOOD FRIDAY is a communal house party, thrown by the DJs who play it. Good house music is our top priority, and we’re creating a space for people to bring an open mind and their best dancing shoes, to experience some sounds and grooves that are a departure from the Hell’s Kitchen Pop Gay Bar norm.

Nick's Notes:

• I went to a party that focused on house music at this venue. Not sure if it was this one, but the music was goooood.

Unleash your deepest desires at the BIGGEST Pride Friday Party in New York: M.E.A.T. XXL! 

NYC’s sexiest party returns for the BIGGEST Opening Pride has EVER seen. Get down with thousands of guys from all over the world!

✓ 6 DJs

✓ 2 STAGES: Tribal, Circuit, House & Techno

✓ MASSIVE PLAY ZONE

✓ 1 COMBO PASS includes AFTER-HOURS til 11AM

Music by: ALLAN NATAL (Brazil), ERIK VILAR (Brazil), FILIPE GUERRA (Brazil), JUKA (Mexico), LE GRAND PHOENIX (USA), SIMON BELLINTANI (Mexico)

VIP includes Exclusive VIP Darkroom, Express Entry, and treats on on us!

Nick's Notes:

• MEAT is a classic circuit party in NYC. It's hot, has a play area, very circuit party. THE circuit party, one could say. Surprised they have a house & techno advertised on the flyer - that seems a plus. And that it's in Manhattan will be very attractive to a tourist and uppity Manhattanite audience.