World Pride Celebrations: Ascend with Pride at FDR Four Freedoms Park

Rendering courtesy FDR Four Freedoms Park

This month, there are many official WorldPride NYC/Stonewall 50 events (along with unofficial events all over the city) that will start before the opening ceremony on June 26th. One of the most visually exciting official events is going to be at FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. New York City’s largest-ever LGBTQ flag will be installed on the steps the park on June 14th, one day before the park’s World Pride celebration, which will include a VideoOut installation capturing coming out stories for their online library, food trucks for a picnic on the lawn, and a visit from Drag Queen Story Hour featuring books that focus on diversity and inclusivity from Little Bee Books.

Entitled “Ascend With Pride,” the flag-designed installation, will measure 12 feet by 100 feet and is intended, according to Four Freedoms Park, “to celebrate the progress that’s been made over the past 50 years, and to shine a light on the LGBTQ community’s continued fight for the universal human rights articulated in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech: freedom of speech & expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”