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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. 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.
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NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE
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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.
CELEBRATN, DEFIANCE MIX AT NYC GAY PRI PARA
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