Brooklyn celebrated LGBT Pride on June 12, complete with the 14th Annual Brooklyn Pride Parade, along Fifth Avenue, from 14th Street to Union Street, in Park Slope, in the evening; an afternoon Brooklyn Pride Festival, on Prospect Park West, from Ninth Street to 15th Street; and, at the BAMcafé, in the Peter Jay Sharp Building at Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Community Pride Center's Coming-Out After Party, a post-parade dance and benefit to help provide a home for Brooklyn's LGBT Center.

Participants in the parade included a New York City Council contingent, with openly lesbian Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Lt. Dan Choi, involved in the fight against Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the policy under which he was discharged from military service, and openly gay Councilmember from Queens Danny Dromm; Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn; New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio; Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Dykes on Bike-Cycles; acrobatic Cheer New York; Heritage of Pride, which organizes the Pride March in Manhattan; Branded Saloon; Metropolitan Community Church of New York; Gay Men of African Descent; SALGA, NYC; New York Bear Den; Gay Men's Health Crisis; Rev. Herb Miller and the Park Slope United Methodist Church; and Miss Colombia, with her poodle and parrot.

There were also Pride events at Brooklyn bars Excelsior, Ginger's Pub, Sugarland, South, and Littlefield.