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Contents:

• 'WE'RE HERE': THOANDS RABOW LORS MAKE A STATEMENT AT NEW YORK CY'S GAY PRI PARA
• NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE
• CELEBRATN, DEFIANCE MIX AT NYC GAY PRI PARA

'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.

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

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. To ci wh the event, a New York state memorial to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people that honors victims of tolerance opened to the public Sunday.

As Pri Month ntu, thgs are slated to get even more excg wh the 2018 New York Cy (NYC) Pri March aimg to celebrate members of the LGBTQIA+ muny first-ever gay pri para Amerin history was held NYC's Central Park on June 28, 1970. It occurred one year after the 1969 Stonewall Rts, which were multiple vlent protts anized by members of the LGBT muny after the NYPD raid known gay club Stonewall Inn. A gay pri flag is pictured December 5, 2017 Washgton, DC.

CELEBRATN, DEFIANCE MIX AT NYC GAY PRI PARA

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. A tachment of “black dyk on trik” were to the fore as the New York pri march began on Sunday, a year short of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, the event now agreed to have created the morn gay rights 2018 march was led by the tennis legend Billie Jean Kg and the transgenr advote Tyler Ford. The actor Cynthia Nixon, a ntenr to be ernor of New York state, was prent, as was her rival Andrew Cuomo, as thoands of marchers rabow lors celebrated LGBT inty Greenwich Village and up the nyon of Fifth marchers said that the gay movement had begun to fd a new purpose, after a succsn of legislative victori removed many of the most overt aspects of sexual or genr discrimatn Amerin society.

“Whether we are lbian or gay or transgenr or Mlim or Mexin or any one of a number other tegori I uld name, we are alli uned by our otherns. ” The ndidate neatly ptured the newfound purpose for a march that some say has e close recent years to beg jt another mercialised “event”, ak to Halloween or Valente’s vice-print, Mike Pence, has supported gay nversn therapy. Photograph: Ed Helmore/the Guardian“Pence do not support gay rights at all, ” Diaz said.

“From the begng, gay pri has been a prott – agast police btaly, agast vlence, agast [vlence agast] LGBT people, agast black people, ’s always stood for what’s right. This month, the supreme urt led favor of a baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, on relig grounds.