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NYC GAY PRI PARA ROUT: A CHANGG COURSE
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. Our missnHerage of Pri is the non prof anizatn that plans and produc New York Cy's official LGBTQIA+ Pri events each year's events memorate the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969 — the begng of the morn Gay Rights missnAboutHerage of Pri works toward a future whout discrimatn where all people have equal rights unr the law. Thoands marched down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village, cheerg and wavg rabow flags to memorate the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, where a police raid on a gay bar triggered days of protts and lnched a movement for LGBTQ+ some people whooped up celebratn, many were mdful of the growg nservative untermovement to lim rights, cludg by banng genr-affirmg re for transgenr children, "I'm not tryg not to be very heavily polil, but when do target my muny, I get very, very annoyed and very hurt, " said Ve Cr, a 22-year-old transgenr woman who traveled om Pennsylvania to take part the untry's largt pri event.
The para was lnched as a 2, 000-person march 1970 to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, wh chants of “Say loud, gay is proud. Today, wh the Supreme Court clarg gay marriage is a right, the one-ln strong para is a symbol of eedom, civil rights and joy for LGBT New Yorkers – and visors om every part of the world. The New York Tim vered the 1971 para wh the headle, “Milant Homosexuals Stage March Central Park, ” the 1982 event, “Pri and Joy at Homosexual Para, ” and 1990: “Throngs Cheer at Gay and Lbian March.
” Over time, the word “homosexual” is replaced by “gay, ” and “acceptance” evolv to “rights, ” showg clearly the trend towards, well, acceptance. Below are major pots of verage and a remend readg list om The New York Tim: 1970 “Milant Homosexuals to Stage March to Central Park Today” "Thoands of young men and women homosexuals om all over the Northeast marched om Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadow Central Park yterday, proclaimg "the new strength and pri of the gay people. " 1972 “March is Staged by Homosexuals; Gay Groups Prs Campaign for Acceptance Here” "Thoands of homosexuals are expected to march om Christopher Street to the Sheep Meadow this afternoon to mark the send anniversary of a movement known to them as the “‘Gay Revolutn’" 1976 “Thoands Jo March For Homosexuals' Rights” "Thoands of homosexuals yterday parad along the Avenue of the Ameris, om Greenwich Village to Central Park, the seventh annual march for homosexuals' rights.