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.
Contents:
- A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
- A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
- 'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS
- GAY PRI NEW YORK
- ÉTATS-UNIS : UNE GAY PRI SPéCIALE à NEW YORK, 50 ANS APRèS S éMT
A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
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ETThe other Swift for The New York Tim“I love beg gay, ” Larry Kramer, the playwright, screenwrer and gay rights activist, told the thoands who had gathered on the Great Lawn Central Park to hear him and others speak. Kramer, 84, spoke on Sunday at the ncln of the Queer Liberatn March and shared his pri the gay muny and his ncerns over s well-beg. “I thk we’re smarter and talented and aware of each other, ” he said, addg, “I’m approachg my end, but I still have a few years of fight left me to scream out the fact that almost everyone gay I’ve known has been affected by this plague of AIDS.
And one of the first stand-up edians to be openly gay. Many hours to Norman/The New York TimAbout four hours to the march, members of the Oslo Fagottkor, a Norwegian gay choir, were still wag for their turn to march the above the start of the route, Paal Christian Gjoeen, 37, and his three iends rted their arms over the fence, their s men, each whe and pk sailor uniforms, had been wag for more than two hours. ETGay Street was renamed Acceptance Heisler/The New York TimIt seems pecially ftg that, a brick’s throw om the Stonewall Inn, there is a short quat block named Gay Street the heart of the Wt Village, long an L.
The Pri March pass by, untls people will notice that Gay Street was renamed — at least durg the month of June, Pri month — Acceptance Street, to honor the expandg diversy of self-intifitn the L. York Cy stalled rabow-lored street signs below the official sign, where Gay Street meets Christopher all-clive signs clu such intifyg markers as Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Nonbary, Pansexual and Two one-block long, Gay Street is one of the shortt streets the Wt Village.
A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
This Pri month, we’ll take you to important lotns L.G.B.T.Q. history and tell you the stori about the gay New Yorkers, ins and activists who lived and worked there. Along the way we’ll let you know about some upg events and a few sir tips. * gay pride new york 2019 *
Leonard Shaver, a 62-year-old gay man om the Flatiron neighborhood, sat wh three straight iends he met 45 years ago at Johns Hopks of those iends, Sheila McDonald, 60, who was visg om Annapolis, Md., wh her hband, Bent Fney, 59, said, “We’ve been g to Pri for years and years, and this is by far the biggt, most betiful one I’ve seen.
“They’re more gay-iendly than I am, ” he said. “And I’m gay! ETCorey Johnson shows off his signature move: a spl Pri March is all about gettg down and boogyg, so perhaps was only a matter of time before the send most powerful elected official New York Cy bted out his tramark dance 90 mut to the march, the speaker of the Cy Council, Corey Johnson, 37, prodd by an terviewer, stepped back and let fly wh one of his cheerlear-style spl Johnson, who is openly gay and H.
'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS
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"We are the new generatn of gay people the world, " Btista add. "The raid at the Stonewall, a gay bar Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood, unfold the early hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, when NYPD officers stormed to the bar to enforce a discrimatory law that ma illegal to serve alhol to gay people. The whole of New York turned rabow-lored as the March wove s way through the streets of Manhattan led by the spirg Grand Marshalls: members of the st of TV drama POSE, The Trevor Project, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah who spearheads UK Black Pri, Moni Helms, creator of the Transgenr Pri Flag and the Gay Liberatn Front.
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GAY PRI NEW YORK
There were people who were passnate about equal rights and people who reveled beg ee to be was the Pri March, a buoyant global celebratn of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr inty.
It swept down Fifth Avenue and to Greenwich Village at a moment history that many said was a ccial one, a half-century after the landmark Stonewall uprisg: More gay rights have been affirmed than ever before, but L.
ÉTATS-UNIS : UNE GAY PRI SPéCIALE à NEW YORK, 50 ANS APRèS S éMT
Issu rema a flash pot the natn’s culture Sunday, amid the bright palette of rabow lors on flags and floats, there was awarens — the sober awarens of 50 years of laws and changg attus that moved gay men, lbians and transgenr people to the mastream. ”For many who marched or jammed the sil, was hard to unrstand jt how much prejudice was once directed at gay men, lbians and transgenr people. In 1969, laws 49 stat ma gay sex between nsentg adults a crime.
And AIDS, which vastated the gay world the 1980s, the succs were tempered by memori. Cuomo said he had jt signed a bill to ban fense lawyers murr s om g “gay panic” or “transgenr panic” strategi state urts. Defendants acced of killg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr people have sometim ed the strategi, assertg temporary sany and matag that their actns were jtified by the victim’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.
“There is much to celebrate today, ” said Jim Fouratt, a gay rights activist who took part the 1970 march, “and still so much to fight for. ”Chris Frerick, managg director of Herage of Pri, said before the march began that was a sign that gay pri “has bee so mastream that there is an expectatn for pani to show up and showse that they have a diverse workplace. Armstrong walked on the event was a police raid on a bar that was ltle known beyond the gay crowd that danced and drank s name is world famo: the Stonewall Inn.