NEW YORK (AP) — Exuberant crowds rryg rabow lors filled New York Cy streets Sunday for one of the largt pri paras the history of the gay-rights movement, a dazzlg celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the famo police raid on the Stonewall Inn.
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THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
New York Cy threw a massive LGBTQ Pri March Sunday to culmate a month of events memoratg the 50th anniversary of the clash between police and gay bar patrons that sparked the morn gay rights movement. * 2019 nyc gay pride parade *
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