The anizers of PriFt, the gay-themed street fair that generally acpani the cy’s gay pri para on the last Sunday June, voted on Tuday night to tell cy officials that they would ncel this year’s ftival unls they uld fd a better lotn. The members of Herage of Pri, which aniz the ftival and the para, have said that the prev se, the Wt Village, was cramped and dangero, and that they wanted to move to Chelsea. On April 27, cy officials nied permissn for the change and urged the anizers to keep the event at the origal se. The cy’s ptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., has sent the mayor a letter urgg the cy to rensir.
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MANHATTAN: GAY FTIVAL JEOPARDY
* gay pride parade new york 2007 *
Gay Pri Week 2007 New York - The LGBT Pri Para - Nymag. • Why: In s 38th year, the annual GLBT celebratn memorat the 1969 Stonewall Rts, nsired the birth of the Gay Rights movement Ameri. Troy Perry, muny activists• Amerin Veterans for Equal Rights New York• Amnty Internatnal-OutFront• Human Rights Campaign• New York Cy Gay Men’s Chos• NYC Parents & Friends of Lbians & Gay Men, Inc.
(PFLAG)• Gay Men’s Health Crisis Center • A plethora of go-go boys and girls om clubs throughout the cy • Mayor Bloomberg. Getty ImagThe 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn, New York’s Greenwich Village, was far om law enforcement’s first attack on a gay bar.
8Getty ImagCherry Jon, Grand Marshall of the 2003 NYC Pri Para, holdg a py of the New York Tim reportg the Supreme Court’s lg to legalize gay sexual nduct. 13Getty ImagA Majorette om the Gay Men’s Marchg band durg the NYC Pri Para New York Cy, 1998.