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How to celebrate Pride Month across New Jersey in June

Pride is all around in New Jersey.

To commemorate LGBTQ Pride Month this June, there will be parties, concerts, parades and rallies across the state.

Here are just some of the ways that members of New Jersey's lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender and queer communities and their allies can rejoice Pride this June.

Asbury Park hotspot Georgie's Bar, Fifth Ave., has a whole weekend of festivities in store to launch Pride month: the Pride Edition of the Hottie Oddities Drag Revue at 11 p.m. Thursday, June 2; Dark City Disco: Pride Edition at 9 p.m. Friday, June 3; a dance party with DJs and karaoke at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 4; and DJs, dancers and a drag show starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 5. For more information, visit 

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Minor League Baseball team the Jersey Shore BlueClaws will host the return of Pride Night on Friday, June 3, when the team takes on the Brooklyn Cyclones at ShoreTown Ballpark (previo

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    Dev, the Grammy Award-winning electropop internet finding out, has proven to be a grave hit-maker as a solo artist with songs &#;Booty Bounce&#;, &#;Bass Down Low&#;, and &#;In the Dark&#; as successfully as working in collaboration with some of today&#;s biggest stars, including 50 Cent, Flo Rida, Timbaland and David Guetta.

    Dev, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter who was discovered on MySpace by the production team The Cataracs after a friend posted her singing to some beat. Six months later, Dev and The Cataracs&#; anthem &#;2Nite&#; began to gain exposure on the radio, the television channel MTVU, and the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart. In , the Cataracs produced &#;Like a G6&#; with Far East Movement and decided to use a verse from Dev&#;s single &#;Booty Bounce&#; as the chorus. &#;Like a G6&#;, which features Far East Movement and Dev, was released in April , and reached number one on the US Billboard Steamy chart. The lyric went on to sell over three million downloads in the US.

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    Message from Jersey Pride, Inc.

    The producers of NJ&#;s Annual Statewide LGBTQ+ Pride Celebration, reluctantly announce that our 30th Annual LGBTQ+ Self-acceptance Celebration, held in Asbury Park, will be rescheduled from October 10th, to June 5,

    This matter was not decided lightly. As the summer wound to a close, Jersey Pride was forced to confront the reality of a fall surge of the virus &#; courtesy of both the delta variant and a non-trivial percentage of the population eschewing vaccinations. We are now beginning to obtain some pushback and cancellations of those who might otherwise have participated in our event this October. Authoritative consultants raised the spectre that we would be creating a super-spreader event. Other prides &#; like Atlanta Pride &#; that had rescheduled their events to the descend have already cancelled.

    According to Jersey Pride President Laura Pople &#;We have not been planning in a vacuum. It was already clear that we were not going to be able to host the blow-out 30th year event that an anniversary year warranted, and that we should target a humble on

    Pride events in New Jersey have a history deeply rooted in the movement and struggle for LGBTQ rights. The origins of Pride in New Jersey are intertwined with the history of Pride itself. Pride month is renowned each June to commemorate the Stonewall uprising in New York, a resistance and series of protests that followed a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28,

    The resistance inspired activists to plan and set up a march known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March to commemorate the uprising during the first Gay Pride Week at the end of June. On June 28, , the first Identity marches were held in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago on the one-year anniversary of the uprising.

    In New Jersey, it took a longer time for the mention to have its have Pride parades. New Jersey’s first was in Asbury Park in It was inspired by changes to the state’s Law Against Discrimination, which was amended to protect sexual orientation. The New Jersey Woman-loving woman & Gay Coalition fought for the amendment and created a parade committee for this Pride event. Asbury Park was chosen for