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Presented by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Looking Back/Looking Forward: NYC’s Gay Pride Parades 1979-1995 A collaborative effort between NYC Pride and the New York chapter of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce for the first time, this event will. It starts off on Sunday, June 19th, with the Pride Luminaries Brunch.
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This year Pride Island (formerly known as the Dance on the Pier) will move a little further uptown to a new location in Hell’s Kitchen at Pier 97, at 57th Street and the West Side Highway. New York City is home to the incomparable and illustrious NYC Pride - a collection of events hosted by Heritage of Pride. The Pride parade will be celebrated again this June in New York City and in thousands of cities around the world - until then, feast on these wonderful images. One of the biggest parties after the Gay Pride Parade NYC is the Pride Island Festival starting from 2 pm until 10 pm. Sadly, due to the ravages of AIDS, many of the people captured by Stellar's camera are no longer with us. These images depict brave pioneers who knew they were on the right side of a cause, not only for themselves but also for later generations. Through Stellar’s skilled eye, we see into the souls of some of those who ventured out in those early years to celebrate an integral part of their lives - a part that otherwise might not be revealed on a daily basis. And this was just the beginning of the 50-years history of Gay Pride and CSD demonstrations from the USA to Europe and all the way around the world. These photos by NYC-based artist Stanley Stellar document some of the people who celebrated at the parades from 1978 to 2008.
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Last year it was attended by more than 2 million people. Every summer since then, in recognition of that historic event, the parade has been held in New York City. In the summer following the Stonewall riots, the first Gay Pride Parade was held on the city's Christopher Street. That riot spawned the modern-day LGBT rights movement. As the annual march, with its dozens of floats and some 20,000 participants, proceeds down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in a celebration of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual pride. On June 28, 1969, a riot occurred outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village - the LGBT crowd was protesting a police raid of the bars. The LA Pride Parade will take place on Sunday, June 12 in Hollywood, at the site of the first ever gay parade (in 1970).