'Queer Liberatn March' sets stage for duelg NYC gay pri events

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• THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC
• 'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS
• THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

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. "We are the new generatn of gay people the world, " Btista add.

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.

'QUEER LIBERATN MARCH' SETS STAGE FOR DUELG NYC GAY PRI EVENTS

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THE BT GAY PRI EVENTS NYC

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. 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. (And may we suggt pairg your vis wh a two-hour Gay Secrets Tour of the Met?

This year’s ceremony, on Friday, June 28, at the rner of Christopher Street and Waverly Place, is sure to be extra special and will feature speech om lol activists, policians, entertaers, and anizers on why gay rights matter, pecially the current polil climate. The World is Comg to NYCMasterbeat is exced to prent the official dance events for WorldPri NYC ’s a once a lifetime weekend celebratg the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts on Friday June 27, Masterbeat as we take over the largt venu Manhattan for the biggt weekend our history, wh our signature productn, the world’s bt DJ’s, and ’ll return to our exclive home at Hammerste Ballroom and re-troduce the world to the mega-club Termal 5 wh the first dance events there over a ’t miss the biggt gay pri celebratn the world. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, an uprisg began agast a police raid of a Greenwich Village bar—the Stonewall Inn—known to serve lbian women, gay men, and bisexual and transgenr people.

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