'Queer Liberatn March' sets stage for duelg NYC gay pri events

Contents:

• THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
• THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
• 'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS

THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

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THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA

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. 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. 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.

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. NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- 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 New York Cy Pri March, the biggt Pri celebratn the world, drew lns of spectators. "I thk that we should be able to say we've been here for so long, and so many people are gay that everybody should be able to have the chance to enjoy their liv and be who they are, " Clay said.

'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS

"One of my highlights was I was walkg on the streets of New York and this woman said 'I love you', " said Jam Moran, om Sydney, year, lns are celebratg world pri, markg 50 years sce the Stonewall uprisg Greenwich Village, wh so much progrs the gay rights a severe thunrstorm that closed off ftivi for about an hour and a half Saturday didn't damper the mood.

"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. 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.