Sholay Events Presents Desi-Queer Pride on the Pier Dance under the setting sun in downtown Manhattan with beats by Ashu Rai — and by popular demand, we’re back at Cobble Fish for the third year running. Join us at one of NYC’s most coveted outdoor spots, right on Pier 16 at South Street Seaport, for a night of queer love, unbound joy, and the kind of Pride celebration we need now

“I didn’t think it was possible to be both LGBT and Indian, the only visible models of LGBT people I saw in the media were white.”—Alok Vaid-Menon, transfeminine South Asian writer, artist, and community organizer based in NYC. NBC News recently highlighted the struggles of LGBT South Asians in America, interviewing queer desi activists from across the country: “For LGBT South Asians in America, the road to visibility has been an