First Gay Group March In NYC St. Patrick's Day Para : NPR

Contents:

• PHOTOS: NYC'S EXULTANT GAY PRI PARA 2015
• GAY PRI PARA HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCIS
• GAY PRI PARA 2015: ROUT, MAPS FOR NEW YORK CY, SAN FRANCIS AND SEATTLE
• GAY PRI EVENTS NYC 2015: FULL LIST OF WEEKEND PARTI, PARAS, CONCERTS AND MORE
• 2015 GAY PRI EVENTS UPSTATE NEW YORK: LGBTQ PARAS, FTIVALS AND MORE
• FIRST GAY GROUP MARCH IN NYC ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA
• NEW YORK CY GAY PRI PARA 2015 - STOCK PHOTO
• NEW YORK’S FIRST GAY PRI PARA
• NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE
• JUBILANT MARCHERS AT GAY PRI PARAS CELEBRATE SUPREME COURT RULG

PHOTOS: NYC'S EXULTANT GAY PRI PARA 2015

The weather turned om gray and sprkly to sunny wh blue ski for NYC's Gay Pri March yterday. The para, which mak way down Fifth Avenue om Midtown until headg to the Village and turng towards Christopher Street and the Stonewall Inn, was packed wh revelers—gay and straight alike—celebratg the Supreme Court's cisn to make same-sex marriage legal everywhere the U.

Both natnwi marriage equaly and relief om overnight ras me jt time for today’s rabow brigas, who marched, chanted, and danced their way down Fifth Avenue durg New York’s annual Gay Pri Para. A group of men drsed leather fetish clothg ri a tck at the tersectn of 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue durg the annual Gay Pri para New York Cy, c. Parents and iends of lbians and gays takg part the 1983 Gay Pri Para.

Members of the Stonewall Veterans Associatn ri a r up Fifth Avenue durg the 30th Annual Lbian and Gay Pri March 27 June 1999 New York.

GAY PRI PARA HIGHLIGHTS FROM NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCIS

Two men drsed partially ary clothg pose for photographs wh tourists on Fifth Avenue durg the 30th Annual Lbian & Gay Pri March 27 June 1999 New York.

Lbian members of the Sirens Women's Motorcycle Club prepare to lead off the 30th Annual Lbian and Gay Pri March on New York's Fifth Avenue June 27, 1999. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) greets Gilbert Baker as they both march the annual Gay Pri para June 30, 2002 New York Cy. Patrick's Cathedral durg the 35th Annual Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri March, 27 June, 2004, on Fifth Avenue New York.

A male participant the Gay Pri Para toss nfetti the air while passg St.

GAY PRI PARA 2015: ROUT, MAPS FOR NEW YORK CY, SAN FRANCIS AND SEATTLE

Make-up artist Freddy Capucci hangs out near 5th Avenue and 53rd street before walkg down 5th Avenue for the 2006 Gay Pri Para June 25, 2006 Manhattan Borough of New York Cy. A member of the Fire Department of New York ris down 5th Avenue durg the 2006 Gay Pri Para June 25, 2006 Manhattan Borough of New York Cy.

A member of the Dyk on Bik ris along Fifth Avenue Manhattan durg the start of the annual Gay and Lbian Pri Para New York 25 June 2000. A participant holds a rabow fan and wears peack feathers as he march the Gay Pri Para June 24, 2007 New York Cy. Gay Pri Para participants ri on a float at the Gay Pri Para June 24, 2007 New York Cy.

GAY PRI EVENTS NYC 2015: FULL LIST OF WEEKEND PARTI, PARAS, CONCERTS AND MORE

Spectators cheer durg the New York Cy gay pri march June 26, 2011. Sherise Mart looks on durg the Gay Pri para on June 26, 2011 New York Cy.

Marchers walk down 5th Avenue durg the 2012 New York Gay Pri para New York on June 24, 2012.

2015 GAY PRI EVENTS UPSTATE NEW YORK: LGBTQ PARAS, FTIVALS AND MORE

New York Gay Pri On Display Durg Annual Para. Revelers watch the New York Gay Pri Para on June 30, 2013 New York Cy.

This year's para was a particularly ftive ocsn, due to the recent Supreme Court Rulg that was unnstutnal to ban gay marriage. Grand Marshal Laverne Cox (L) and Delor Nettl, mother of sla transgenr woman Islan Nettl, attend the 2014 Gay Pri March on June 29, 2014 New York Cy.

New York Cy’s annual Gay Pri Para has long been one of the cy’s more ftive celebratns. Dancers om Chutney Pri, a group for gays and lbians of Caribbean scent, ma a splash on Fifth Chang W. They n twirl flags, they n dance, and they are gay- and lbian-iendly.

FIRST GAY GROUP MARCH IN NYC ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA

Chipotle’s marchers wore whe tank tops emblazoned wh the qutn, “¿Homo tás? The sun me out San Francis, and Market Street was transformed to a dance hall of sorts, as young and old, tourists and lols, gay and straight, cheered the lorful floats as they went. Behd a barri, a group of men wore the ged Jewish prayer garment known as the tzz and held up anti-gay signs bearg the logo of a group llg self the Jewish Polil Actn Commtee.

“Judaism prohibs homosexualy, ” one sign read. In Istanbul, rt police officers ed a water nnon to disperse gay-rights activists after a gay pri march was Rters. The Turkish police ed tear gas and water nnons to disperse a large crowd that attempted to gather Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Sunday to march the cy’s annual gay pri para.

Homosexualy is not illegal Turkey as is many other Mlim untri, but is still wily nsired a taboo.

NEW YORK CY GAY PRI PARA 2015 - STOCK PHOTO

The annual event had been permted Istanbul over prev years, amassg thoands of participants that reach beyond Turkey’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.

Walmart showed s support for gay rights on Jam Estr/The. Here's everythg you need to know about the 2015 gay pri paras New York, San Francis and Seattle.

NEW YORK’S FIRST GAY PRI PARA

Participants and spectators have much to celebrate at the gay pri paras the U.

This year, they will celebrate not only the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muni but also the U. Basilly, this means that there is no longer any such thg as gay marriage: It’s simply a unn between two people who love each other.

“Pri has e to symbolize several thgs: the long history of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer digny, the eedom of all people to meangfully and proudly exprs their sexual and genr inti, and the mment of LGBT people to batg opprsn, ” acrdg to SF Pri.

NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE

New York mayoral ndidate Anthony Weer marched the Gay Pri Para New York, June 30, 2013. The annual event draws hundreds of thoands of people to the streets of New York Cy, many of them donng the lors of the rabow flag, the symbol of the gay rights movement around the world. And wh the Supreme Court officially lg Friday favor of gay marriage, NYC Pri 2015 is bound to be bigger, better and more brazen than York Cy Pri weekend is all about packg as many parti and paras to three days as humanly possible.

The Court ultimately cid such laws were unnstutnal, pavg the way for gay marriage to be legal all 50 stat, regardls of whether they regnized gay marriag the past.

In fact, some unty clerks stat where gay marriage was prevly illegal have already started issug marriage licens to same-sex ’s a list of Pri events happeng New York Cy this, June 26Start Pri weekend off right wh the tradnal NYC Pri Rally, meant to memorate a rally that occurred one month after the Stonewall rts of 1969.

JUBILANT MARCHERS AT GAY PRI PARAS CELEBRATE SUPREME COURT RULG

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.

New York Cy's Gay Pri Para is one of the olst the untry -- found to memorate the Stonewall Rts 1969. Sir Derek Jabi, a grand marshall for the New York Gay Pri Para, greets people on Fifth Avenue, June 28, 2015. Mayor Bill Blas, his wife Chirlane McCray, their son, Dante and dghter, Chiara march down Fifth Avenue the Gay Pri Para, June 28, 2015.

Gay Pri Para. Sir Ian McKellen, a grand marshal, wav a rabow flag at the start of the New York Gay Pri Para on Fifth Avenue, June 28, 2015. Sir Derek Jabi (L), his partner Richard Clifford and Sir Ian McKellen (far R) wave to the crowd durg the Gay Pri Para New York Cy, June 28, 2015.