Organizers and longtime activists in New York say in recent past years the march has lasted as long as eight hours or more and this year’s march could last even longer.įor the first time this year a dissident group in New York City, the Reclaim Pride Coalition, has organized a separate Queer Liberation March set to take place the same day as the official New York City Pride March on June 30.īut the Queer Liberation March is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., at the site of the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village. The march will end in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. It will travel past the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Greenwich Village, the site of the Stonewall riots, which has been designated a U.S. The official New York City Pride March, organized by Heritage of Pride, is scheduled to kick off on Sunday at noon at 26th Street and 5th Avenue. Lesbian comedian Margaret Cho will host the event. Among the entertainers scheduled to perform are Melissa Etheridge, Deborah Cox, Jake Shears, MNEK, and The Prom Musical. in New York’s Times Square, which will include “a slate of influential speakers” and big name entertainers. The group says about 115,000 people were expected to march in over 100 contingents and the remainder of the crowds would be lining the streets as spectators.Ī spokesperson for Heritage of Pride said a large number of march contingents would be comprised of LGBT people and their supporters from other countries who were coming to New York to participate in World Pride events that began earlier this week.Īmong the Heritage of Pride, or HOP, events planned for June 30 is the official World Pride Closing Ceremony beginning at 7 p.m. Heritage of Pride, the group that has organized New York City’s LGBT Pride events for more than 20 years, has said more than 4 million people were expected to turn out for the official New York Pride March on Sunday, June 30. In addition to the larger turnout expected from people from throughout the U.S., New York City Pride this year is the official host of World Pride, an international LGBT Pride event originally started in Europe that will take place for the first time this year in the United States. Similarly, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy of UCLA wrote in a 2015 report that in a survey of LGBT people and people living with HIV, 73% of respondents said they had face-to-face contact with the police in the past five years, Of those respondents, 21% reported encountering “hostile attitudes” from officers, including verbal assaults, sexual harassment and physical assault.Organizers of the many events this weekend in New York City to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, credited with launching the modern LGBT rights movement, say an expected turnout of 4.5 million people will make it the world’s largest ever LGBT Pride celebration.
A 2012 analysis by the National Inmate Survey, found that lesbian, gay, or bisexual people were incarcerated at a rate of 1,882 per 100,000, or three times higher than the heterosexual U.S. LGBTQ people are also overrepresented in rates of incarceration and prison victimization, the think tank added. However, even with the advances that the movement has made, the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said in a report in June 2020 that gays are still “disproportionately harmed” by the criminal justice system, along with Blacks and immigrants.
The f irst gay pride parade took place in June 1970, one year after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan led to rioting – an event generally considered one of the most pivotal moments of the gay rights movement.