LGBTQ+ Pride Month events in South Florida

Celebrating the love that dare not speak its name — at least in Florida — June is Pride Month for LGBTQ+ communities and their supporters.

Organizations, bars, restaurants, museums, theaters and a whole host of other entertainment venues stage events throughout the month to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, a pivotal moment in gay and lesbian history.

Here’s a list of things you can do to help celebrate Pride Month here in South Florida. (And look for this list on sun-sentinel.com, as we will update it with new information as it comes in.)

June 1-30 — “I Am What I Am: A Tribute to South Florida’s Drag Pioneers”

The Galleria at Fort Lauderdale, 2414 E. Sunrise Blvd.; 954-4634431; HistoryFortLauderdale.org

This display by History Fort Lauderdale features more that 40 drag artists on a Wall of Fame and will be up throughout Pride month. The exhibit — free and open to the public during mall hours — spotlights South Florida drag pioneers Latrice Royale, Daisy Deadpetals, Electra, Tiffany Arieagus, Nikki Adams and Cathy Craig.

June 3 — Tour of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives

1300 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 561-297-0177; Stonewall-Museum.org

Fort Lauderdale’s Stonewall bills itself as the “largest LGBTQ library in the world,” with more than 27,000 books, and the archive with more than 6 million pages of LGBTQ history from the 1950s to now (not to mention clothing from the likes of Ricky Martin and RuPaul). Helping to kick off Pride month, Stonewall is offering a tour given by executive director Hunter O’Hanian on Friday, June 3, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for nonmembers and $20 for members. Space will be limited to 20 people. The deadline for registration is Wednesday, June 1.

June 3 — “Black & White and Gray All Over” art exhibit

Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, 41 NE First St., Pompano Beach; PompanoBeachArts.org/ baca and ArtsUnitedFlorida.com

Members of ArtsUnited, an LGBTQ visual and performing arts organization, have created an exhibit of works using only black, white and gray. Presented at Bailey Contemporary Arts Center (BaCA), the art from locals includes photography, paintings, sculptures, pencil and metal works, and mixed media. The opening reception takes place during Pompano Beach’s art and beer festival, the Old Town Untapped, from 6-10 p.m. Friday, June 3. The exhibition — which is free and open to the public — runs through Wednesday, Aug. 17.

June 4 — Pride On The Block

500 block of Clematis Street, West Palm Beach; PrideOnTheBlock.com

The annual block party returns to downtown West Palm Beach’s party-hearty Clematis Street from 1 p.m.-midnight Saturday, June 4, with an afterparty at Respectable Street from 1-4 a.m. There will be a drag queen story hour, fashion show, youth festival workshops, vogue battle, bingo, live music and open mic. This is a fundraiser for Transpire Help, which helps LGBTQ+ people with recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Drink bracelets are $30 in advance and $35 at the gate. The bracelets gets you drinks from spots including: Subculture Coffee, Kapow!, Hullabaloo, Lost Weekend, O’Shea’s Irish Pub, Respectable Street, Alchemy Juice Co. and BRK Republic Tap House & Dog Park. VIP passes are $150.

June 10-26 — “Head Over Heels”

Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-462-0222; BrowardCenter.org

Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s season-ender in the Amaturo Theater inside the Broward

Center is a campy comedy with themes of questioning sexuality and gender fluidity. The show features music from the iconic 1980s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s. Produced by the same team that brought “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Avenue Q” and “Spring Awakening” to Broadway, the score includes The Go-Go’s hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” as well as Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.”

June 11 — Floatarama

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Esplanade Park, 400 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale

Residence Inn Fort Lauderdale Intracoastal/Il Lugano, 3333 NE 32nd Ave., Fort Lauderdale

Starting at 12:30 p.m., a flotilla of Pride-decorated boats will depart from Esplanade Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale and cruise the New River and Intracoastal Waterway before culminating at Residence Inn Fort Lauderdale Intracoastal/ Il Lugano at 2 p.m. for a Sailor’s Dance and Pool Party with San Francisco DJ Matt Consola. There will also be a charter boat available. To register, go to Floatarama.org. Tickets for flotilla vessel registration are $30. Tickets for the Sailor’s Dance and Pool Party are $15; VIP packages range in price from $100-$125.

June 11 —Pride Festival & Concert

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Along Northeast Second Avenue, between East Atlantic Avenue and Northeast Second Street, Delray Beach

Old School Square Pavilion, 51 N. Swinton Avenue, Delray Beach

The festival takes place from 4-8 p.m. and is free and open to the public, featuring vendors, food trucks and a pet costume contest. There will be drag performances by Ariel Rimm, Adelaide, Angie Ovahness Pryce, Citris and Crystal Famouz (the current reigning Miss Palm Beach Pride), plus a concert by Almost Abba at the Old School Square Pavilion.

June 15 — Palm Beach County Human Rights Council’s Pride Happy Hour

Meat Market, 191 Bradley Place, Palm Beach; 561-346-1263; PBCHRC.org/events

The PBCHRC’s annual happy hour event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at Palm Beach’s Meat Market restaurant, with free hors d’oeuvres. Ten percent of dinner proceeds will benefit the organization. Register at PBCHRC.org.

June 18 — Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival

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Returning to a blocked-off Wilton Drive in the heart of the bar/restaurant/retail part of Wilton Manors, this Stonewall event will have a festival marketplace from 3-11 p.m. and a parade at 7 p.m. Admission is $7 ($5 before 4 p.m.). There is also three-tiered VIP admission for $100, $200 and $5,000.

June 20 — “Happy 100th Birthday Judy”

The Parker, 707 NE Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale (in Holiday Park); 954-462-0222; ParkerPlayhouse.com

Judy Garland, superstar and some say the spark for the Stonewall Riots, will be celebrated in this one-woman show starring internet sensation Debbie Wileman backed by an orchestra. In addition to the Garland songbook, the British singer will also perform songs from Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse and The Beatles as Garland would sing them. The show starts at 7 p.m., with tickets starting at $58.75.

June 25 — Fourth Annual Family Pride Celebration

Museum of Discovery & Science, 401 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale; 954-467-6637; MODS.org/2022pride

The daylong event for the entire family will have a rainbow science lab, exhibits, demonstrations, storytime with a drag queen, as well as make-and-take-home sessions for Pride flags, prisms and tie-dyed T-shirts (a white shirt costs $5). There will also be kiosks with health-care, legislative affairs and local community organizations. The event is free for museum members and Fort Lauderdale residents (with proof of address at the box office). For nonresidents and nonmembers, the cost is $5.

June 25 — The Stonewall Ball

Cox Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach; CompassGLCC.com

Some of South Florida’s most popular female impersonators — including Melissa St. John, Velvet Lenore and Rianna Petrone — will perform at this annual fundraiser for the Compass Community Center of the Palm Beaches. At the event from 7 p.m.-midnight, there will also be an award presentation, disco dance party and a silent auction. Tickets are $45 (disco dance party only), $300 and $500 (award and cocktail reception with open bar and hors d’oeuvres).

June 26 — “A Sense of Pride: Keith Haring and the 80’s East Village Art Scene Art Talk”

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd.; 954525-5500; NSUartmuseum.org

This presentation from 3-4 p.m. is tied to the museum’s current exhibition, “Confrontation: Keith Haring & Pierre Alechinsky.” The discussion will cover how Haring ’s exhibitions, parties, pop-up shops, activism and protests made this time and place historically important in context of the AIDS crisis, Reaganomics, the end of the Cold War and the rise of technology. The sociopolitical aspects of work from fellow East Village artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ashley Bickerton, Jenny Holzer, Kenny Scharf, Peter Hujar, McDermott & McGough and David Wojnarowicz will also be featured.

There will be free tours of the exhibit before and after the event, but you must RSVP at Web. OvationTix.com. The art talk is free with museum admission: $12 for adults; $8 for seniors and military; $5 for students with valid ID; and free for museum members, NSU staff and children age 12 and younger.