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.
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- THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
- GRAY AND GAY: THIS SENR CENTER WAS SIGNED FOR LGBTQ ELRS
- A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
- THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
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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.
GRAY AND GAY: THIS SENR CENTER WAS SIGNED FOR LGBTQ ELRS
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A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
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THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
”Charl Kaiser, thor of The Gay Metropolis, actg director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College and a Guardian ntributor, also participated both events. Elsewhere the US on Sunday, Lori Lightfoot, the first openly gay mayor of Chigo, was named grand San Francis, Google employe had petned Pri directors to revoke their pany’s sponsorship over what they lled harassment and hate speech on s platforms.
Two people were arrted, police New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo marked the day by outlawg the “gay and trans panic legal fense”.
“The gay and trans panic fense is sentially a difitn of homophobia and transphobia and is repugnant to our valu of equaly and cln, ” Cuomo said the statement. "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.