New York Cy's Pri celebratn is back for 2022 wh a bumper 12-hour para that vers some key lotns the history of gay rights activism.
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NYC GAY PRI PARA 2022 DAT, TIM, ROUTE AND RTRICTNS
This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. The NYC Pri celebratns are some of the biggt and most elaborate of any the world, ftg nsirg that many of the gay rights movements seen today n trace their roots back to 1960s New Pri Para 2022 will beg on 25th Street and 5th Avenue, before movg south on 5th Avenue and wt along 8th Street. The origs of a ordated gay rights movement the Uned Stat is generally acknowledged to have e om the Stonewall rts of year later, 1970, lol bookshop owner Craig Rodwell anised a one-year anniversary march to mark the date.
Inially the para nsisted of jt a uple of hundred people, but as they marched through the streets the numbers rights activist Jerry Hoose, who was there for the first edn of the para, told TimeOut: “I always say that gay liberatn was nceived at Stonewall 1969 and was born at that first march. Every June, Pri Month memorat the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan — a “tippg pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat, ” acrdg to the Library of Congrs.
Some wns acunts say Johnson was a lear of the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when patrons of a Greenwich Village bar risted a police raid and sparked the morn gay rights movement. Followg the raid, Johnson and others — cludg Sylvia Rivera, a Latx gay and transgenr rights activist who passed away 2002— led a number of protts agast the raid. Wilson beme the first openly gay actor playg an openly gay role on seri televisn for his role as Rickie Vasquez on the 90's classic "My So Called Life.