OUT.COM: Celebrating icons of resilience

For the Voices series on Out.com, NYC AIDS Memorial Executive Director Dave Harper writes about our Pride Program, Legends of Drag. Voices is dedicated to featuring a wide range of inspiring personal stories and impactful opinions from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

He writes: “On June 14, the New York City AIDS Memorial presented its third annual Legends of Drag program as part of our 2025 Pride Month offerings. Held at the Church of the Village, just steps from the Memorial and in the West Village neighborhood considered an epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, the evening brought together doyennes of drag and other performers in a joyful, defiant celebration of identity, legacy, and resilience.”