A report on NYC Pride March

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots. That event in New York City's queer history has served as a touchstone for various social movements, as well as the catalyst for Pride parades around the world.
Millions of spectators gather every June for the New York City Pride March.
Button promoting the second annual pride march in 1971.
Rainbow striped crosswalk at the corner of 7th Ave. and Christopher St.
Moment during the 2011 NYC Pride march.
Moment during the 2015 NYC Pride march.
Millions of spectators gather every June (seen here in 2018) for the New York City Pride March.

Annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.

- NYC Pride March
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots. That event in New York City's queer history has served as a touchstone for various social movements, as well as the catalyst for Pride parades around the world.

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Actor Billy Porter at Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019, rainbow gown by Christian Siriano

Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019

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Series of LGBTQ events and celebrations in June 2019, marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots.

Series of LGBTQ events and celebrations in June 2019, marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots.

Actor Billy Porter at Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019, rainbow gown by Christian Siriano
A condom given out by NYC Health Department during the Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 celebrations.

The Stonewall 50 - WorldPride events were held throughout June, which is traditionally Pride month in New York City and worldwide, under the auspices of the annual NYC Pride March.

The only known photograph taken during the first night of riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows gay youth scuffling with police.

Stonewall riots

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The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

The only known photograph taken during the first night of riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows gay youth scuffling with police.
The only known photograph taken during the first night of riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows gay youth scuffling with police.
Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village
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Christopher Park, where many of the demonstrators met after the first night of rioting to talk about what had happened, now features a sculpture of four white figures by George Segal that commemorates the milestone.
Gay rights demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, including members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The GLF in the UK held its first meeting in a basement classroom at the London School of Economics on October 13, 1970. The organization was very informal, instituting marches and other activities, leading to the first British Gay Pride March in 1972.
Banner reading "Stonewall was a riot" pictured during Berlin Pride, 2009
Queer anarchists at Stockholm pride with banner reading "Remember Stonewall"
The Stonewall, a bar in part of the building where the Stonewall Inn was located. The building and the surrounding streets have been declared a National Historic Landmark.
The sign left by police following the raid is now on display just inside the entrance.
A banner hanging from the top of the building the day after President Obama announced creation of the Stonewall National Monument
Stonewall Day logo by Pride Live
Plaque commemorating the Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall, a bar in part of the building where the Stonewall Inn was located. The building and the surrounding streets have been declared a National Historic Landmark.
In Paris (France), town square commemorating the Stonewall Riots

The march in New York covered 51 blocks, from Christopher Street to Central Park.

Pride parades occur worldwide. Image shows the 18th annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in 2014. In 2006, it drew an estimated 2.5 million participants.

Pride parade

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Outdoor event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) social and self acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.

Outdoor event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) social and self acceptance, achievements, legal rights, and pride.

Pride parades occur worldwide. Image shows the 18th annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in 2014. In 2006, it drew an estimated 2.5 million participants.
The Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, which spawned the gay rights movement and pride parades around the world,
Revelers during a pride parade in Brooklyn
Pride march in Lakeview, Chicago in 1985
Gay Pride Parade in New York City, 2008
LGBT activists at Cologne Pride carrying a banner with the flags of 72 countries where homosexuality is illegal
Women marching in Joburg Pride parade in 2006
Pride March 2019 in Dili, East Timor
Hong Kong pride parade 2014
Participants of Bhubaneswar Pride Parade, 2018
Gay Pride March in Bangalore, India (2013)
The Tel Aviv Pride Parade is the largest pride parade in Asia
Taiwan Pride 2019, in Taipei
People gathering at the Senate Square, Helsinki, right before the 2011 Helsinki Pride parade started.
Paris Pride
Berlin Pride
Italian lesbian organisation Arcilesbica at the National Italian Gay Pride march in Grosseto, Italy, in 2004
Amsterdam's pride parade is held in its canals
Warsaw Pride in 2006
Moscow Pride protest in 2008
Belgrade Pride parade in Belgrade in 2010
More than 500,000 people in Europride 2007 pride parade in Madrid
EuroPride parade in Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
Istanbul LGBT pride parade in 2011, Taksim Square, Istanbul
Lesbian Strength March 1983, UK
Baton twirlers perform in the 2002 Divers/Cité pride parade in Downtown Montreal.
Float with Aztec Eagle Warrior theme at 2009 LGBT Pride Parade in Mexico City
San Francisco Pride Parade 2012
Boston Pride Parade
First LGBTQ Pride Parade in Homer, Alaska.
Sydney's pride parade, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, is one of the world's largest and is held at night
LGBT flag hoisted in the Casa Rosada, building of the Argentine government, in Buenos Aires
LGBT flag extended in the Parliament of Brazil
Gay friendly beach in Rio de Janeiro
A festive float with costumed dancers at San Francisco Pride 2005
The annual NYC Pride March, the world’s largest LGBT event

Most pride events occur annually, and some take place around June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, a pivotal moment in modern LGBTQ social movements.

The location of the Stonewall Inn in relation to Greenwich Village

LGBT culture in New York City

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New York City has one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent.

New York City has one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the world and the most prominent.

The location of the Stonewall Inn in relation to Greenwich Village
The layout of the Stonewall Inn, 1969
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Gay Street, at the corner of Waverly Place, in Greenwich Village
Pre-Dyke March assembly (2019) in Manhattan
Manila-born supermodel Geena Rocero takes the stage at a TED conference in Manhattan to come out as transgender on International Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, 2014. New York City is home to the world's largest transgender population, estimated at 50,000 in 2018.
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, is the only museum in the world dedicated to artwork portraying the LGBTQ experience.
The entrance to Harvey Milk High School
Metropolitan Community Church of New York

On June 25, 2017, the day of 2017 New York City Pride March festivities, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the artist Anthony Goicolea had been chosen to design the first official monument to LGBT individuals commissioned by the State of New York – in contrast to the Stonewall National Monument, which was commissioned by the U.S. federal government.

Facade of Stonewall Inn during the 2016 Pride celebrations

Stonewall Inn

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Gay bar and recreational tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

Gay bar and recreational tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, and the site of the Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

Facade of Stonewall Inn during the 2016 Pride celebrations
"Raided Premises" signs were commonly displayed in bars after police raids.
Stonewall Miami Beach before the fire
Plaque commemorating the Stonewall Riots

A year later, the first Christopher Street Liberation Day was held - a commemorative event consisting of a march from Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadow in New York's Central Park.

New York City

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Most populous city in the United States.

Most populous city in the United States.

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"
Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.
Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.
The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.
Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.
A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement
United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center
Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017
Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.
The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019
California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:
The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.
Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.
The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.
The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.
The I Love New York logo, designed by Milton Glaser in 1977
Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.
Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America
Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.
Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)
The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street
The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.
Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.
As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.
New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.
The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.
Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City
New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.
The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street
John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States
The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.
Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.
8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.
The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.
The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018
St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island
The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.
The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

The annual New York City Pride March (or gay pride parade) traverses southward down Fifth Avenue and ends at Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan; the parade rivals the Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade as the largest pride parade in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

The Stonewall Inn located in Greenwich Village was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots. That event in New York City's LGBT history has served as a touchstone for various social movements, as well as the catalyst for Pride parades around the world.

List of largest LGBT events

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This list presents the largest LGBT events (pride parades and festivals) worldwide by attendance.

This list presents the largest LGBT events (pride parades and festivals) worldwide by attendance.

The Stonewall Inn located in Greenwich Village was the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots. That event in New York City's LGBT history has served as a touchstone for various social movements, as well as the catalyst for Pride parades around the world.
Millions of spectators gather every June for the New York City Pride March.
Millions of spectators gather every June for the New York City Pride March.

As of June 2019, the NYC Pride March in New York City is consistently North America’s biggest pride parade, with 2.1 million attendees in 2015 and 2.5 million in 2016; in 2018, attendance was estimated around two million.

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, is adorned with rainbow pride flags.

LGBT culture

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Culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.

Culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals.

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, is adorned with rainbow pride flags.
The rainbow flag, often used as a symbol for LGBT culture
Two men kissing.
Dykes on Bikes, Hamburg
Bisexual pride flag
Transgender pride flag
First trans solidarity rally and march, Washington, DC USA (2015)
Cologne Germany Gay Pride Parade (2014)

LGBT communities may organize themselves into, or support, movements for civil rights promoting LGBT rights in various places around the world. At the same time, high-profile celebrity icons in the broader society who have achieved representation of LGBT culture itself, may offer strong support to these organizations in certain locations; for example, LGBT advocate and entertainer Madonna stated, “I was asked to perform at many Pride events around the world — but I would never, ever turn down New York City.”

Ellen Broidy

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American gay rights activist.

American gay rights activist.

On November 2, 1969, Broidy presented a resolution at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations on behalf of herself, Linda Rhodes, Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant, proposing hold an annual march on the last Saturday in June to be called Christopher Street Liberation Day, in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots which had taken place on Christopher Street.

Spectators along Christopher Street for the Pride March in 2003

Heritage of Pride

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501(c)(3) non-profit organization that plans and produces the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events each June.

501(c)(3) non-profit organization that plans and produces the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events each June.

Spectators along Christopher Street for the Pride March in 2003
Spectators along Christopher Street for the Pride March in 2003

2017's NYC LGBT Pride March brought together more than 450 contingents including 110 floats.