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'WE'RE HERE': THOANDS RABOW LORS MAKE A STATEMENT AT NEW YORK CY'S GAY PRI PARA
Para marshal Billie Jean Kg wav as the procsn pass the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village landmark of the gay rights movement. NEW YORK – Thoands of people clad rabow lors marched Sunday through Greenwich Village and up Fifth Avenue for the annual Gay Pri para, a massive celebratn of LGBTQ of this year's grand marshals was tennis legend Billie Jean Kg, along wh transgenr advote Tyler Ford and civil rights anizatn Lambda Gaga’s "Born This Way" blared om loudspeakers as people marched, danced, stomped and watched along the route. The first Gay Pri para was held 1970 after the 1969 Stonewall Rts, a seri of vlent monstratns agast a police raid that targeted the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.
The rights of LGBTQ people – those intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer – have ma great stris the past few s, and the Supreme Court's legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015 was a major victory for the muny. More:Why we have LGBTQ Pri and not 'Straight Pri'More:Pri Month: How the travel dtry is embracg the LGBTQ munyMore:Gay Pri paras ed to mean protts.
Now they're an exce for straight kids to partyBut the Supreme Court led this month favor of a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on relig grounds. Rts epted rponse to a police raid of the gay bar June 1969. "People have a right to eely exprs themselv as queer people, whether members of the police partment, whether members of activist groups, whether members of ristance groups and the Gay Officers Actn League supports the rights of all people to exprs themselv eely, " said NYPD Detective and Gay Officers Actn League Print Bryan Downey.