Blasian Pride 2024 Marks Juneteenth

The Blasian March marks its fourth annual Blasian Pride Rally to uplift Black, Asian, and Blasian LGBT community as a Juneteenth celebration.

Brooklyn, NY– The Blasian March proudly presents Blasian Pride: Juneteenth Edition on Sunday, June 22, 2024, 2 PM at Cadman Plaza, to celebrate Black, Asian and Blasian LGBT people. Through speeches and performance art, Blasian Pride celebrates the intersections of queer Blackness and queer Asianness through the creative and educational lens of Juneteenth.

“I’ve often felt a little out of place at Juneteenth and other events because being part Asian has made others view and treat me as ‘less Black,’” says Blasian March founder Rohan Zhou-Lee. “After leading Blasian March for four years, I know that I fully belong at every Juneteenth event. I’m 100% Black. And I’m inviting everyone in my family to the cookout, because I’m 100% Asian.”

A direct call for unity and equity between Black, Asian, and Blasian peoples, the annual Blasian Pride commemorates the organization’s New York City origins in the LGBT community. Conceived in the Bronx and incepted in Brooklyn during the 2020 lockdown, organizers across the country have generated their own Blasian Marches in New Haven, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sacramento. In 2022, The Public Advocate For the City of New York Jumaane Williams awarded a certificate to Blasian March for uniting “communities in love, fellowship, and support.” Blasian Pride: Juneteenth Edition seeks to also inform attendees more about the long history of Black-Asian solidarity that has been long erased, therefore leading to auto-segregation between communities. “June 19th, a day of Black liberation struggle, was also the day that white supremacists attacked Vincent Chin in 1982,” says Zhou-Lee. “To reference Dr. Raquell Holmes, Blasian Pride will reclaim the relationships white supremacy cut to keep us apart. Rebuilding our solidarities is essential to thrive beyond colonization.”

To learn more about and make a tax-deductible donation to Blasian March, visit www.blasianmarch.org

Press members are invited to attend and interview organizers and attendees. For any further questions, please email blasianmarch@gmail.com.