Pride Event at NYBG 2023
June 10; 3–6 p.m.
Conservatory Plaza
Join us to celebrate Pride at NYBG with live music, DJ sets, and a runway show presented by Bronx Fashion Week. Stop by and pick up a tattoo to show your Garden Pride!
Thursday, June 1, 2023 – Friday, June 30, 2023
Onsite & Online
Join us throughout the month of June as we celebrate the history and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in the botanical world. Take part in our hands-on activities, hear stories from activists in our community, learn about the cultural significance of botanical specimens, and more.
June 10; 3–6 p.m.
Conservatory Plaza
Join us to celebrate Pride at NYBG with live music, DJ sets, and a runway show presented by Bronx Fashion Week. Stop by and pick up a tattoo to show your Garden Pride!
Tuesdays–Saturdays; 1:30–5:30 p.m.
Sundays and Monday Holidays; 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Venture up to the Edible Academy to enjoy Rainbow Salad Mix demonstrations for Salad Days, and learn about LGBTQ+ connections to botanical history.
June 24 & 25; 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Celebrate your identity by making your own pride button. Learn about the history of buttons to represent queer identity, and watch with the video from our ECAG Explainers below.
The Rockefeller Rose Garden’s extraordinary collection features roses in nearly every color of the rainbow. In this self-guided Bloomberg Connects tour, explore the history and chemistry of color in roses, from the tragic romantic history of the red rose to the science behind why certain colors of rose are impossible.
Our Teen Explainers are here to show you a fun activity to express yourself and your identity through making your own flower lapel pins, just like famous playwright Oscar Wilde did by wearing a dyed green carnation on his lapel to symbolize his place in the Gay community.
In this wide-ranging series of interviews with herbalists, houseplant enthusiasts, farmers, and gardeners, hear from Black women in the plant world and learn how they are using plants as a powerful expression of liberation and freedom.
Do you have a food love story, meal you cook together, or shared food memory? In celebration of his work “Lamb’s Quarters: A Love Story,” part of last summer’s exhibition Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love, environmental artist and educator Matthew López-Jensen invited LGBTQ+ couples to share their stories.
Learn more about lavender—the color symbolic of LGBTQ+ resistance and empowerment—as well as the plant’s associated cultural and horticultural history. Whether the plant or the color, lavender’s rich symbolism and storied history continue to fascinate and engage a wide range of enthusiasts.