| New York City Pride March is an event celebrating the LGBTQ community; it is one of the largest annual Pride marches in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June. The route of the Pride march through Lower Manhattan traverses south on Fifth Avenue, through Greenwich Village, passing the Stonewall National Monument, site of the June 1969 riots that launched the modern movement for LGBTQ+ rights. The March is among the largest components of NYC Pride, together with the Rally, PrideFest, and Pride Island events. The largest NYC Pride March to date coincided with the Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 festivities, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn, with 150,000 participants and five million visitors to Manhattan on Pride weekend; an estimated four million attended the parade.
We were lucky enough to be on walkabout in New York for the 2010 parade which we literaly stumbled upon, seeing large crowds lining the streets and wondering what was going on. We joined the crowd at the corner of 5th Ave and W 23rd St, opposite the Flatiron building, and watched the full parade which took one and a half hours to pass by. These are a selection of the photos. |
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