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

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A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS

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THE BT LGBT AND GAY HALLOWEEN EVENTS NYC

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.

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“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.