New York Pri 2019: Millns turn out for one of the largt gay pri paras history as Caras, Istanbul and Sgapore jo celebratns | London Eveng Standard | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
• THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC
• PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH
• MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW
• NEW YORK PRI 2019: MILLNS TURN OUT FOR ONE OF THE LARGT GAY PRI PARAS HISTORY AS CARAS, ISTANBUL AND SGAPORE JO CELEBRATNS

THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

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” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter. ” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march.

” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful.

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

“My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program. In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety.

Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments. "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. 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.

A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS

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.

THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC

“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. 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.

PRI MONTH 2019 | WORLD’S BIGGT GAY PARAS & LGBTQ MARCH

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. 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.

“Thoands of young men and women homosexuals om all over the Northeast” participated, The Tim reported, “proclaimg ‘the new strength and pri of the gay people. Michael Evans/The New York TimJune 27, 2019When we hear of Pri march today, we tend to thk of fs and feathers, of men more than half-naked wavg om rabow-hued, Lurex-draped para floats, of Dyk on Bik who gun their motors fiance of genr norms, of wavg gay and trans celebri.

MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW

They are fitas that perlate through the ci and sometim small towns of the veloped world, as well as some parts of the rt of the world, and they mark the fact that gay people exist numbers, provi documentary evince that we have more fun and are more fabulo than anyone else, that we are gay the old sense of the word. ]But Pri was not always so unabashedly celebratory; for a long time, was a radil asslt on mastream valu, a means to fy the belief that homosexualy was a s, an illns and a crime, that gay people were subhuman. Declarg yourself is now so route (at least among people more liberal muni) that we fet the speratn Harvey Milk’s 1978 entreaty that everyone who was gay e out if any progrs was to be ma.

NEW YORK PRI 2019: MILLNS TURN OUT FOR ONE OF THE LARGT GAY PRI PARAS HISTORY AS CARAS, ISTANBUL AND SGAPORE JO CELEBRATNS

It is our hope that the day will e when homosexuals will be an tegral part of society — beg treated as human begs. ” It further read, “Gay Liberatn is for the homosexual who stands up, and fights back. Some members of the para saw patrts standg on the sil, watchg; one proclaimed that he would ll out on the spot the gay iends he saw who weren’t participatg.

My favore photo is the one of people volved a sort of le dance, prumably Sheep Meadow, where the para wound up as what the anizers lled a “Gay-In. Fred Sargeant wrote The Village Voice: “Before Stonewall, gay lears had primarily promoted silent vigils and pole pickets, such as the ‘Annual Remr’ Philalphia.