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Since 2010, New York's largest outdoor
Pride party has been produced by Matinee
North America on Governors Island.
Once the home of the US Coast Guard, the
little island shaped like an ice cream
cone has become the home base for
Matinee New York Pride.
Every Saturday afternoon on NYC Pride
weekend, the boys line up outside the
Battery Maritime Building at the base of
Manhattan and prepare to board the two
massive 1,200-passenger ferry boats for
a four-minute cruise across the harbor
to New York's island oasis.
An amalgam of Pinocchio's Pleasure
Island and Peter Pan's Neverland
(complete with Lost Boys and Tinker
Bells), Matinee New York Pride at
Governors Beach Club is nothing less
than an idyll: that perfect summer beach
party that lingers in your memory all
year long.
Apart from a surfeit of excessively
pulchritudinous boys with cover-model
faces and ridiculously right bodies,
Matinee New York Pride offers
magnificent views of the New York (and
New Jersey) skylines, punctuated by
clipper ships on sunset cruises, and a
spellbinding sunset.
But wait, there's more. This year's
incarnation of Matinee New York Pride
introduced locals to a musical
phenomenon, the incredibly gifted Lydia
Sanz. Most New Yorkers were hearing Sanz
for the first time - and what an
introduction it was. With extreme focus
and professionalism, Sanz created a
musical landscape that complemented a
postcard-perfect day and kept the
ebullient crowd surfing the addictive
sound waves throughout the evening and
into the night.
A corps of more than 30 dancers worked
the stage, inciting the crowd to step up
their moves and shake and grind it like
they mean it. New York native Natascha
Bessez took to the stage to work it out
with a medley of her hits and the
streamers rained down on a cheering
crowd.
Across the water, the lights of
Manhattan glittered like a string of
jewels as Sanz continued her euphoric
set. "What a beautiful vibe," beamed one
beautiful girl. She got it right - and
so does Matinee, every New York Pride. |
