Planting Pride

Planting Fields Foundation and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation will hold a two-day celebration of LGBTQ+ pride.

June 10: Ball in Coe Hall
Our weekend celebration of LGBTQ+ culture will begin with our Gay in the Gilded Age Ball. We aim to pay homage to the 1920s with a roaring reception of queer celebration in Coe Hall. Open To All Entertainment will bring some of Ballrooms greatest performers, and a speaker on the New York Ballroom Scene, which is an African American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ culture that originated in New York City.

June 11:
11 AM Panel - Queer Evidence in Historical Narratives
1 PM Panel - Creating and Caring for LGBTQ+ Community on Long Island

All-day events including:

• Highlighting the queer contributors of significance to the site
• Tea house will be open with interpretive signage and a reoccurring lecture on Elsie De Wolfe 
• Booths hosted by local businesses
• Program on access to sexual health services presented by Pride for Youth
• Digital gallery of submissions from local artists titled “Growing Up Queer, Long Island". 
• Sara Kate Ellis and Kristen Henderson will be reading, and signing, their book titled "All Moms".