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* gay pride 1997 *
(CNN) -- Gay men and lbians and their supporters rallied by the hundreds of thoands Sunday durg gay pri celebratns held ci as large as San Francis and Paris and as small as Halifax, Canada. The grand marshals clud a Che gay activist and a gay Christian mister.
In Atlanta, where a bomb explod a gay bar Febary, a heightened secury prence was visible for a para through the cy Sunday.
Many of the marchers Atlanta wore Mickey Moe ears -- a reference to the recent cisn by Southern Baptists to officially boytt Disney for s iativ toward gay and lbian employe and ctomers. In New York Cy's para, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani received a somewhat osty receptn, due to his announced opposn to legalizg gay marriage. Gay pri events memorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts June 1969, durg which patrons of a gay bar battled police New York Cy.