Hot off the success of Hulu’s “Mid-Century Modern,” Nathan Lee Graham will kick off LGBTQ+ Pride Month next week with a brief return to the New York stage.

The actor will be a guest of honor at the 13th annual “Night of a Thousand Judys,” set to take place at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York on Monday, June 2. He’s receiving the second annual Judy Icon Award, which celebrates contributions to queer rights and visibility and is named after Hollywood legend Judy Garland.

Similarly, television and film producer Jeremy Katz will accept the Good Judy Award in recognition of his dedication to “uplifting the LGBTQ+ community.”

“They say one is judged by the company they keep,” Graham, whose credits also include the Reese Witherspoon comedy “Sweet Home Alabama” and Broadway’s “The Wild Party,” told HuffPost. “If this is true, then being associated with the incomparable Judy Garland and [2024 Judy Icon Award recipient] Justin Vivian Bond [means] I’m doing something right!”

To mark the occasion, Graham and the “Night of a Thousand Judys” creative team have released a video of his chilling performance at last year’s event. In it, he performs the classic torch song “Stormy Weather,” which Garland famously crooned at her Carnegie Hall concert in 1961 and on her CBS variety series two years later.

Watch Nathan Lee Graham’s performance of “Stormy Weather” below.

Describing “Stormy Weather” as “powerful, daring and scary,” Graham said the song is “about allowing yourself to feel all of the feels. To purge oneself so that you come out on the other side… maybe? And to do it in front of others takes a certain kind of courage.”

Since its inception in 2012, “Night of a Thousand Judys” has featured a host of Broadway, film and TV stars. Collectively, they bring a fresh shine to Garland’s many classics, including “The Man That Got Away” from 1954’s “A Star Is Born” and, of course, “Over the Rainbow” from 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz,” in a one-night-only concert.

As in previous years, this year’s event is hosted by writer-performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre, whose TV credits include “2 Broke Girls,” with proceeds benefiting the Ali Forney Center, a New York-based advocacy group for homeless LGBTQ+ youth. Those who can’t attend the show but still wish to donate to the Ali Forney Center can do so here.

The 2025 lineup includes “RuPaul’s Drag Race” veteran Alexis Michelle and Grammy-winning actor and singer NaTasha Yvette Williams, a 2023 Tony Award nominee for the stage adaptation of “Some Like It Hot.”

Speaking to HuffPost, Sayre clarified that “Night of a Thousand Judys” was meant as an “inspiration show,” noting: “We’re yet again expanding the boundaries of what Judy means to people and how far and wide her talents continue to reach.”

“She’s a spiritual guide for me,” Sayre said of Garland, who died in 1969 at age 47. “She demands that I be brave. She grabs me by the hands and tells me to get out there and ‘sing ’em all and stay all night.’”

Sayre, who uses they/them pronouns, went on to note: “How do we reach the hearts of those around us? Not by concentrating on what divides us, but imagining a world in brilliant Technicolor where we all get over the rainbow and find a place like home.”

This year’s “Night of a Thousand Judys” will be particularly meaningful for Sayre, who is getting married to their partner five days after the show. They’re also conscious of the many rights rollbacks the LGBTQ+ community currently faces at the federal level under President Donald Trump.

“We’re all on the chopping block, whether we realize it or not,” Sayre said. “But in a moment like that, what are we supposed to do? Hide? Acquiesce to these charlatans and fear-mongers? Hand over the rights we’ve fought so hard for and hide? Not on your life.”

They went on to note: “I want to be bigger, braver, gayer, more gender-queer, more non-binary, more woke than ever, because the alternative is a world of cruelty and stupidity, and I, for one, refuse to be intimidated by so much stupidity any longer.”