But Heritage of Pride last month also decided to bar uniformed police officers from its future parades. The two groups have differed over their policies on police participation in their events, which the Reclaim Pride Coalition opposes. The defiant stand gave birth to the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Last year's march produced no discernable spike in new coronavirus cases, he said.īoth events commemorate the June 28, 1969, uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when patrons fought back during a police raid.
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Under sunny skies with muggy conditions that felt like 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), a racially mixed crowd of men and women chanted "No Justice, No Peace," and other slogans, some critical of the New York Police Department.Īfter linking last year's message to the Black Lives Matter movement, Walker said this year's theme is returning to the coalition's standard: "None of us are free until all of us are free."Īlthough the group had urged marchers to wear masks, few did. Walker said the group was hoping to draw up to 70,000 marchers. Theaters, gay bars, historical societies, libraries, and. The twelve-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups. Meanwhile, thousands of people organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, whose parade began as a protest to the Pride march two years ago, marched more than 30 blocks down New York's Seventh Avenue with rainbow flags and signs that included "Liberation and Justice."Ĭoalition cofounder Jay W. WorldPride alone added dozens of new events to 2019’s already packed Pride month calendar, and those are just the tip of the iceberg. In 2019, as part of Stonewall 50 - WorldPride NYC, up to five million people took part over the final weekend of the celebrations, with an estimated four million in attendance at the parade. “At the end of the day, HIV is just a virus, and we have the ability to prevent it and to treat it,” said Daskalakis, who is director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV/AIDS expert Dr Demetre Daskalakis, one of the event's grand marshals, urged all LGBTQ+ community members to get tested frequently for the virus. “We've made incredible progress in equality across the country, but trans people are under attack,” he added.
“Six days after the shooting, we had a funeral service for my best friend and I made a promise to him that day that I would never stop fighting for a world that he would be proud of,” he told ABC, which aired the event. Guests included Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, who has since become an advocate for LGBTQ rights legislation.