Disability Pride NYC, Inc

12/03/2025

⏰ Final Hours of Giving Tuesday! ⏰
Support us here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2

The NYC Disability Pride Parade is powered by community, visibility, and joy — and today is your last chance to join the Giving Tuesday celebration! 🌈💛

Help us cross the finish line and keep the Parade loud, proud, and unstoppable:
• Donate → https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2
• Share → https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2
• Start a peer-to-peer fundraiser → https://docs.google.com/.../1cx76C2pbYlU8_GABpaO.../edit...
• Friendraise → https://forms.gle/yRnf2pXskUrEkeXa9

💛 Let’s hit our $5,000 goal before midnight! Every gift helps Disability Pride stay visible and unstoppable!

Zeffy

12/02/2025

💥 It’s Giving Tuesday and we're making progress! 💥
Support us here: https://www.zeffy.com/.../keep-the-nyc-disability-pride...

The NYC Disability Pride Parade celebrates visibility, inclusion, and joy — and YOU make it possible! 🌈💛

Help us keep the Parade loud, proud, and unstoppable:
• Donate → https://www.zeffy.com/.../keep-the-nyc-disability-pride...
• Share → https://www.zeffy.com/.../keep-the-nyc-disability-pride...
• Start a peer-to-peer fundraiser → https://docs.google.com/.../1cx76C2pbYlU8_GABpaO.../edit...
• Friendraise → https://forms.gle/yRnf2pXskUrEkeXa9

Let’s hit our $5,000 goal today and show the world that Disability Pride can’t be silenced!

Zeffy

12/02/2025

🌟 It’s Giving Tuesday — and the NYC Disability Pride Parade needs YOU! 🌟
Support us: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2

Since 2015, our Parade has been powered by community love, visibility, and inclusion. Today, your support is more important than ever as DEIA efforts face growing attacks nationwide.

💛 HOW TO HELP TODAY:
• Donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2
• Share the campaign: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2
• Start a peer-to-peer fundraiser: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cx76C2pbYlU8_GABpaO_Bs-LrQBioxH8XW98L09R5lU/edit?tab=t.0
• Invite your network (Friendraise): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeyRJZ8JBJ2377Bievck4OwTbJPuT5Mymn5on3Yveqd_W7iQ/viewform
• Sponsor the Parade: https://www.nycdisabilitypride.org/parade-partners/become-a-sponsor
• Become a Friend of the Parade: https://www.nycdisabilitypride.org/parade-partners/our-partners

Give via Zeffy: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/keep-the-nyc-disability-pride-parade-going-2

Help us hit our $5,000 goal and keep Disability Pride loud, visible, and unstoppable! 💛

🌟 Join us this Giving Tuesday! 🌟This Giving Tuesday, the NYC Disability Pride Parade needs YOU. Across the country, initiatives supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are under attack, and most of the funding we expected didn't come through. Your gift ensures the parade--an...

10/03/2025

📢 March and Roll with Us at the 10th Anniversary NYC Disability Pride Parade! ❤️♿
This year’s theme — LOVE UNITES: We’re All In This Together — celebrates the joy, creativity, and power of our community. We’re proud to be part of this milestone event and we want YOU to join us!
🗓️ Sunday, October 19, 2025
⏰ 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Madison Square Park → Union Square Park
Come march, roll, and celebrate with us through 10 multi-sensory themed blocks filled with performances, storytelling, and collective pride. Together, we will honor the past, celebrate the present, and imagine the future of disability pride.
💪 Let’s make history — one block at a time.
Join us and be part of this powerful movement.
👉 Sign up to march and roll with us: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKlj9w8x9tAElitZIYYs6pQwusF6VSvHn0Gk_cwN3aApzWLg/viewform?usp=dialog
Learn more at www.nycdisabilitypride.org

Image description: A group of African and Caribbean diaspora people of mixed ages from "To the Core Foundation," a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, marching in the New York City Disability Pride Parade. On the left, there are several traditionally dressed men playing drums. On the right, young girls and wo...

09/30/2024

Thank you to Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller and his team for co-sponsoring the October 20th Disability Pride NYC Parade.

To register for the 2024 Parade, please use this link: https://forms.gle/XeVCrb4s6WZw6Sjh9
To volunteer before or at the Parade, please use this link:
https://docs.google.com/.../1eL1LR_PSon7TiyEUx.../edit... (this includes if you'd like to share arts or sports engagement)
Tabling application and information
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdZjIJZ3zlCgC.../viewform

09/30/2024

2024 Disability Pride NYC Parade Sunday, October 20th.

The Parade Theme is "New York City, celebrating disability swag!"
(Swag defined as stylish confidence:)

Thank you to Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller and his team for co-sponsoring the 2024 parade. Sections A and B in the line-up are already full! Only a few tables left for tabling groups. We are so excited!

To register for the Parade, please use this link: https://forms.gle/XeVCrb4s6WZw6Sjh9

To volunteer before or at the Parade, please use this link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eL1LR_PSon7TiyEUx_3mRiscp4TZZvDTr8or9A9Czb8/edit?ts=66f5a500 (this includes if you'd like to share arts or sports engagement)

Tabling application and information
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZjIJZ3zlCgCE33IUomYrmgklqxcJEAbssXWWPSwWL-ntyOQ/viewform

10:00AM Parade line-up at Madison Square Park.
Your specific line-up information will be sent to the email address you provide in this registration form below.

10:45 AM Remarks for press by parade organizers, several citywide elected officials and Grand Marshalls. As the greater parade-going community will be lined-up for the parade at this time, this program will be repeated at 12:15 PM in Union Square.

11 AM Parade's start time.
The route begins at Madison Square Park and proceeds down Broadway to Union Square Park where participants can gather together and celebrate Disability Pride!

Along the parade route:
Community Viewing Area for people who are not marching, Broadway between 21st and 22nd Street. 200 folding chairs are available but as they are in limited supply, they must be reserved in advance. Sign up for them within the parade registration form.

Judges review stand, Broadway between 21st and 22nd street.
Awards will be given for:
Best Float
Best Performance (performed while continuing to move down the street)
Best Costumes
Most Spirit

12:00PM Community gathering begins in Union Square Park
Tabling by organizations, corporations and City Agencies, performances, community engagement activities.

12:10 PM Remarks by parade organizers, several citywide elected officials and grand marshalls.

12 PM - 3 PM Program in Union Square
When finalized, a detailed announcement of this program will be on this page of this site. Also the program will also be sent to groups and individuals who have registered.

Please share with your networks
Disability Pride NYC Parade Poster
English https://drive.google.com/.../1KRRCAp0HWGVR8HB6QGC.../view...
Spanish - https://drive.google.com/.../1dnHCZmZBEeQtCWcKjIz.../view...
French
https://drive.google.com/.../1KgvbCtimiX72rRZvZCR.../view...
Chinese
https://drive.google.com/.../1mzMf48GiOfK9gK9g8nu.../view...

Image description: A group of African and Caribbean diaspora people of mixed ages from "To the Core Foundation", a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, marching in the New York City Disability Pride Parade. On the left, a several traditionally dressed men carry drums. On the right, young girls and women are in...

10/02/2023

Woo hoo! Register for the Disability Pride Parade! Sunday, October 22, 2023: https://forms.gle/KTNTyEb8tvmxRqBU7

Please join us on our new page: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityprideparadenyc

This year's theme: Nothing About Us Without Us!
We will once again gather at Madison Square Park @ 10:00 AM
and Roll, Scoot, March, Ride, and Walk down Broadway to Union Square

Image description: A group of African and Caribbean diaspora people of mixed ages from "To the Core Foundation", a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, marching in the New York City Disability Pride Parade. On the left, a several traditionally dressed men carry drums. On the right, young girls and women are in...

03/14/2023

With deep sadness we share the passing of Mary Kaessinger.
Champion of disability justice and rights. Co-founder of the Coalition of Labor Women, Disability Pride NYC Board Member and a dear friend. As we grieve with this news, we share some of Mary's writings here: https://www.workers.org/author/mary-p-kaessinger/

Image description: Mary Kaessinger, a silver haired white woman speaks at a podium for the Workers World Party national conference in Newark, N.J. in 2017

09/30/2022

Disability Pride NYC Parade and Festival Cancelled

We’ve had a great time together sharing and creating together as a community at the many virtual Parade and Festival planning and outreach meetings. So it is with a heavy heart that the organizers of the 2022 Disability Pride NYC Parade and Festival have made the decision to cancel the Sunday, October 2nd Disability Pride Parade in consultation with NYC safety experts for similar large-scale events.

The parade, which was set to return Sunday, October 2nd after a two-year break due to COVID-19, is canceled due to the weather forecast. While the forecast predicts heavy rains on Saturday and may rain Sunday, our larger concern is for extremely high winds – at least 30 MPH wind gusts in the area on Sunday.

Additionally, we are fortunate to have guidance alerting us that the weather on Saturday and Sunday may impact transportation including possible disruption due to flooding for bus and subway service and an inability for Access-A-Ride to have their usual in-person presence at the parade.

Many in our communities may not be able to attend. If there is any theme to this year’s parade, it is “Nothing about Us, Without Us” and the parade should be inclusive and accessible to all.

There are take-aways that we have learned during the pandemic that the future of everything now includes virtual. We’ll be reaching out to you shortly with a virtual plan for Sunday, October 2nd.

So this year let’s celebrate together and share resources — including information from the 50 disability organizations, City Agencies, youth groups and the Department of Education who registered for tables at the festival – just online.

09/30/2022

Disability Pride NYC Parade and Festival Cancelled

We’ve had a great time together sharing and creating together as a community at the many virtual Parade and Festival planning and outreach meetings. So it is with a heavy heart that the organizers of the 2022 Disability Pride NYC Parade and Festival have made the decision to cancel the Sunday, October 2nd Disability Pride Parade in consultation with NYC safety experts for similar large-scale events.

The parade, which was set to return Sunday, October 2nd after a two-year break due to COVID-19, is canceled due to the weather forecast. While the forecast predicts heavy rains on Saturday and may rain Sunday, our larger concern is for extremely high winds – at least 30 MPH wind gusts in the area on Sunday.

Additionally, we are fortunate to have guidance alerting us that the weather on Saturday and Sunday may impact transportation including possible disruption due to flooding for bus and subway service and an inability for Access-A-Ride to have their usual in-person presence at the parade.

Many in our communities may not be able to attend. If there is any theme to this year’s parade, it is “Nothing about Us, Without Us” and the parade should be inclusive and accessible to all.

There are take-aways that we have learned during the pandemic that the future of everything now includes virtual. We’ll be reaching out to you shortly with a virtual plan for Sunday, October 2nd.

So this year let’s celebrate together and share resources — including information from the 50 disability organizations, City Agencies, youth groups and the Department of Education who registered for tables at the festival – just online.

If you would like to be notified about virtual participation, please sign up here:

09/07/2022

Dear Parade and Festival participants,

We are excited to invite you to participate with us in the 2022 Disability Pride NYC Parade.

Registration, Tabling and Volunteer Forms are included here below

Please share this information to your networks. Thank you!

Taking place on Sunday, October 2nd, the parade will start at 10:00AM at Madison Square Park and will proceed down Broadway to Union Square Park. Parade line-up will take place prior to 10:00 AM — additional information will be sent to the email address you provide on your registration form. The Festival will take place in Union Square Park and will begin at 12:00PM.

The mission of Disability Pride NYC Parade 2022 is to promote inclusion, awareness, and visibility of the disability community. Our goal is to support people with disabilities, redefine the public perception of the community, and establish an annual Disability Pride parade in NYC. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the parade was canceled. This year, 2022, we return and continue our march of celebration and advocacy.

Links below have both information for participation, as well as a forms for your sign-up.

If any of our forms are not accessible to you, please email [email protected] and we will find a volunteer to fill out the form with you.

To register for the Parade please use this form: October 2nd, Disability Pride NYC Parade Registration Form

To register for a Table please use this form: Table registration form

For general questions about the Parade and Festival, including Table Registration, please email: [email protected]

To sign up as a volunteer, including artists and entertainers who are offering to share with the community a performance, please use this form: Volunteer Registration Form

Accommodations Available
The parade route is fully accessible. Accessible portable toilets, CART, ASL interpretation, Induction Loop Technology, accessible water fountains and service animal relief areas will be provided. To request additional accommodations please send an email to [email protected].

Accessible Transportation At Madison Square Park, the nearby 23rd street 6 station is accessible on both the uptown and downtown sides.

Bus Connections available: M1, M2, M3, M55 and the 23rd street crosstown bus.

Future updates will be found at http://www.disabilitypridenyc.org

We are looking forward to being together on Sunday, October 2nd!

Thanks for your continued effort and support.

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