NEW YORK (AP) — Exuberant crowds rryg rabow lors filled New York Cy streets Sunday for one of the largt pri paras the history of the gay-rights movement, a dazzlg celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the famo police raid on the Stonewall Inn.
Contents:
- THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
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. 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. “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.
And one of the first stand-up edians to be openly gay. 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.
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
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.
A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
"We are the new generatn of gay people the world, " Btista add. "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.