Events
Find out where and when we’ll be attending events in the Rochester area.
Winter/Spring 2024
RIT Community Service Fair
Fri Jan 26, 11 am – 1 pm
SHED Lobby, RIT
We will be one of more than 30 organizations on hand, sharing our mission with RIT students. ASL interpreters will be on hand, and each attendee receives a free Java’s token.
UHS LGBTQ+ Resource Fair
Tue Feb 5, 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Feldman Ballroom, University of Rochester
Sponsored by U of R’s University Health Services, this annual fair provides students a chance to learn about groups and programs geared toward the LGBTQ+ community, both on and off campus. Learn more about UHS’s LGBTQ+ health offerings and commitment.
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Lovers Ball
Sat Feb 10
location tba
Overseer Giannia and Motha Alexia Givenchy are hosting the 5th Annual Lovers Ball for Valentines. Doors will open at 5 p.m.
LGBTQ Leadership Lecture & Dinner
Wed Feb 21, 6pm
The Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center presents our Spring 2024 Lorri L. Jean and Darrel Cummings LGBTQ Leadership Lecture Series featuring Kris Hayashi on February 21, 2024 at 6pm. This event will be in-person in the Feldman Ballroom in Frederick Douglass Commons. Dinner is provided by Salena’s Mexican Restaurant.
Kris Hayashi, Director of Advocacy and Action for the National LGBTQ Task Force, an organization that for over 50 years has built power, taken action, and created change to achieve freedom, justice, and equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Prior to this role, Kris was the Former Executive Director at the Transgender Law Center. Kris Hayashi has over 20 years of movement building, leadership and organizing experience. As a public transgender person of color, Kris has been a leader in movements for justice and rights for transgender and gender nonconforming communities for over a decade.
U of R Job Fair
Wed Mar 20
Details to come
NYLinks Traveling Conference on HIV Care
Tues Mar 26, all day
We’re excited to host this conference focused on strategies for HIV healthcare, presented by NYS DOH’s AIDS Institute’s NYLinks, here at URMC. There will be 15 sessions related to quality improvement, regional improvement and planning around issues related to HIV, HCV, STI and drug user health delivery systems.
The first 40 registrants receive a pass/QR code for free parking. View the agenda, session descriptions, parking directions and registration link at rochestervictoryalliance.org/nylinksroc/.
WNY Awards Ball
Saturday, May 11
AKA: Happily Never After WNY Kiki Awards Ball 2024, this year’s awards ball is slated for the Stardust Ballroom, presented by Overall Father Chasmar Ferdi and WNY Father Haze Von Dutch. Rochester Victory Alliance is pleased to be a sponsor again this year, and we’ll be tabling at the event and handing out our special swag. Doors open at 5 p.m. and start at 6:30 p.m. Purchase tickets via the event Facebook page.
Hep C Testing Day
Friday, May 17
Our friends at Action for a Better Community‘s Action Front Center have invited us to take part in this health oriented event. We’ll be on hand with our info and goodies from noon – 4 p.m. location tba
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
Saturday, May 18
tbd
19th Ward Square Fair
Saturday, June 1
Complete with parade, vendors, pancake breakfast, games and musical and dance performances, this family-oriented event is a hit every year. (And, DYK: there’s a mechanical bull?!)
FLX Pride
Saturday, June 15, 1 – 9 p.m.
Finger Lakes Pride is put on by the Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes. The festivities take place at 35 Lake Front Drive in Geneva (along the northern tip of Seneca Lake).
Red Wings Pride Night
Wednesday, June 26
In what has become a beloved part of Pride celebrations in Rochester, the Red Wings will face off against the Scranton W/B Rail Riders with post-game fireworks. We’ll be handing out what’s become our tradition, too: free Skittles!
First pitch is at 7:05 p.m. Get tickets at https://www.milb.com/rochester/tickets.
Pride Picnic
Sunday, July 14, noon – 6 p.m.
This year the picnic is being held at the Roundhouse Shelter at Genesee Valley Park. We’ll be one of the many community info tables there, enjoying the music, food trucks (yum) and entertainment along with a few thousand of our Rochester friends. More details and ticket info
Corn Hill Arts Festival
July 13 & 14
In its 56th year, this premiere arts festival takes over nine streets in Rochester’s historic Corn Hill neighborhood with hundreds of artists from across the country, musical entertainment, and of course, plenty of food trucks.
Pride Parade (Walk with us!)
Saturday, July 20
It’s the happiest day of the year! And this year, the parade and festival will have a new route and location: Up South Avenue from Science Parkway, landing in Highland Park.
As always, we invite YOU to march with us along the parade route. Send us an email at volunteer@rochestervictoryalliance.org and let us know your t-shirt size, if you don’t already have an RVA shirt.