People hold signs and wave flags as they march in Lower Manhattan during the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives & Against Police Brutality on. celebrities, written long-overdue obituaries for L.G.B.T.Q. New York, New York, USA - Sunday, June 25, 1989: Marchers at the Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, Sunday, Jin New York, New York, USA carry. This month, The New York Times has covered Pride events throughout the city, featured perspectives from L.G.B.T.Q. The monthlong celebration crescendos this week with a 50th anniversary Stonewall commemoration on Friday and the annual Pride parade on Sunday. activism and pride is reverberating throughout New York as the city hosts its annual Pride festivities and, for the first time, WorldPride. Johnson, a fellow transgender activist, have died, other leaders have followed in their footsteps. We now attract more than 40,000 spectators and are.
And while many of the movement’s trailblazers, like Ms. Our first Queens Pride march was held in 1993, and since, our parade and festival have grown tremendously. It has been 50 years since the clashes at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights movement. In a 1998 interview, Sylvia Rivera, a prominent transgender activist, recalled being at the 1969 Stonewall uprising and thinking, as Molotov cocktails flew through the air, “My God, the revolution is here.
