Pride Month 2023

Happy Pride Month! Celebrate with us and immerse yourself in our Asbury Pride celebratory flag installation: Look Up, by Fun House, our resident go-to shop for FUN, original Asbury Park souvenirs as well as unique Wooden Walls mural artist collaborations.

The flag has been in the works for a year and a half and took Fun House co-owner, Gene Mignola, 300 hours of labor to mock, create and sew the flag. The flag measures 40’x90’ and is made up of 700 yards of fabric, 240 yards of net, and 200 yards of thread. Gene was inspired by artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude who created “The Gates”, NYC 2005, and the orange netting Gene used in Look Up, is a nod to them. His goal was to create something special for Asbury Park Pride and wanted bunting, billowing stripes that would ripple with the breeze like the movement at the surface of the ocean.

Owners Gene Mignola and Scott Hamm have been residents of Asbury Park since 2008 and have been in business on the boardwalk since 2010. Now they have two Fun House locations on the boardwalk. This Sunday, June 4^th, they will be giving out swatches from the flag during the Pride Parade at the 1200 Ocean Avenue location, the 5^thAvenue Pavilion (below). They will also have Pride merchandise for sale in both locations: 5^th Avenue Pavilion and The Grand Arcade at Convention Hall location, located right under the flag.