North Fork Pride returns to Greenport on June 27
Greenport’s North Fork Pride will bring thousands to Mitchell Park on June 27, with North Fork Women among the grand marshals and a parade stepping off at noon.
Greenport will again become the East End center of Pride on Saturday, June 27, when the fourth annual North Fork Pride parade and festival fills Mitchell Park and the surrounding streets from noon to 5 p.m. Lineup starts at 11 a.m. at Second and Broad streets, and the parade steps off at noon, moving through the village along Main and Front streets.
The LGBT Network says the 2026 celebration will focus on LGBTQ+ visibility, mental health and community advocacy, giving the day a purpose that goes beyond procession and music. North Fork Women is set to serve as one of the grand marshals, adding a familiar local name to an event that now functions as a regional gathering point for Greenport, the North Fork and much of Suffolk County.
North Fork Pride’s return also shows how Pride Month has expanded across Long Island into a monthlong calendar rather than a single date. Long Island Pride’s 2026 event is set for Sunday, June 14, in Huntington, and the organization said more than 150,000 people marched, gathered and celebrated across Long Island, Queens and the North Fork last year under the theme “Defiant Joy.” By the time Greenport hosts North Fork Pride on June 27, it will serve as the capstone to that broader stretch of events.
That timing matters because Pride Month itself is rooted in the Stonewall uprising in Manhattan in 1969. The Library of Congress says the observance takes place in June to honor that uprising, which grew from a flexible Gay Pride Day into a month of events. Stonewall Forever places the start of the uprising on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a turning point for the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement.
For Suffolk County, North Fork Pride is no longer just a celebration tucked into one village weekend. It is a visible part of how LGBTQ+ life has taken root in public spaces on the East End, with Greenport’s Mitchell Park and downtown streets serving as the backdrop for a day that now draws a countywide audience and signals how much the cultural landscape has changed.
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