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Gay marriage goes into effect in a month, and will make New York the sixth - and most populous - state to legalize same-sex weddings, joining Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa - plus the District of Columbia. New York City's annual Pride March began in 1970 as a commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Cuomo signed gay marriage into law five minutes before midnight Friday - and was treated to a hero's welcome Sunday. In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution to which LGBT. This year will set a new standard for Long Beach Pride and become the gold standard for Pride festivals everywhere.
They couldn't stop talking about Friday night's landmark 33-29 state Senate vote to legalize gay nups. Celebration and Dyke March, and 2011 Annual Pride Weekend Pride Parade. the first gay pride event in the world took place in 1970 in New York City (USA). Flyer for the Annual Buffalo Pride Parade & Rally by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual. The real focus was clear: Every time a couple marched past wearing tuxedos and wedding gowns, the packed crowd exploded into cheers, hollers and hoots.Ĭarrying signs that read "Equality For All Families," "Promise Kept!" and "It Does Get Better NY," partiers embodied this year's parade theme: "Proud and Powerful." From a violent drug lord who loved parties, fags and free drug trade. Tens of thousands of ecstatic celebrants took to the streets Sunday for New York's Pride March, soaking up an historic equal rights victory.įloats, politicians and dancers got huge applause all along the parade route.