NEW YORK (WABC) — Happy Pride from the ABC 7 New York Family!
Our very personal Sam Champion, Lauren Glassberg, Kemberly Richardson and Pedro Rivera anchored the 2024 NYC Pride March in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon.
This 12 months’s tournament marked the fortieth anniversary of Heritage of Pride and the fifty fifth anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion. Final arrangements had been made Saturday night time forward of the tens of millions of spectators that had been anticipated to line the streets of Manhattan at this 12 months’s march.
The march happened between twenty fifth Street and Fifth Avenue. Marchers proceeded south on Fifth Avenue ahead of heading west on Eighth Street. After crossing over Sixth Avenue, the march endured on Christopher Street passing the Stonewall National Monument. The birthday celebration became north on Seventh Avenue, passing the New York City AIDS Memorial, ahead of dispersing in Chelsea at sixteenth Street and Seventh Avenue.
More than 75% % of all marching teams had been nonprofit organizations, and greater than 1/2 of all marching teams had been collaborating free-of-charge.
Pride 2024 Theme: “Reflect. Empower. Unite”
This 12 months’s theme is “Reflect. Empower. Unite.”
Organizers decided on the theme to spotlight the significance of the NYC Pride March because the intersection for Queer liberation and pleasure.
The theme encourages folks, advocates, neighborhood leaders and allies to mirror at the demanding situations they have got triumph over in combination and empowers them to do so in shaping our collective long term.
“This year’s theme is an imperative and a call to action. While we reflect on past triumphs and challenges, we must also empower our community to continue to ignite change and unite against the forces that do not want us to exist. Unity at this time is critical to our survival. Our theme calls us all to action,” mentioned Kazz Alexander, NYC Pride co-chair.
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“The more that we do these shows, the more I realize that I’m reaching an audience who is not having their needs met.”
Grand Marshals for Pride 2024
The listing of grand marshals comprises DaShawn Usher, Miss Major, Raquel Willis, Michelle Visage, Eshe Ukwell and Baddie Brooks.
“This diverse selection of leaders reflects the spirit of unity, resilience, and celebration within the LGBTQIA+ community,” Alexander mentioned. “Now more than ever It is imperative for members across our community to unite behind the mission of the LGBTQIA+ cause: simply the opportunity to love, and to be able to live as you desire.”
Alexander says everybody advantages when “we are all unified in the spirit of liberation for the most marginalized.”
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Pride Events
PrideFest: Where Equality Takes Center Stage
PrideFest returns on Sunday, June 30, with its famend LGBTQIA+ side road honest for its thirtieth anniversary. As the biggest LGBTQIA+ side road pageant in NYC, PrideFest guarantees an afternoon stuffed with pleasure and birthday celebration. This tournament encompasses quite a lot of elements, together with StageFest, FamilyFest, CommunityFest and FoodFest, providing a various vary of reviews for attendees of all backgrounds.
Youth Pride
This tournament takes position on Saturday, June 29 at the South Street Seaport Museum – Pier 16 and The Seaport – Pier 17, ages 13-24, for a colourful birthday celebration honoring LGBTQIA+ formative years, providing a secure area for empowerment, schooling and neighborhood construction.
Bliss Days: Embracing the Spirit of LGBTQIA+ Womxn
On Sunday, June 30, Bliss Days (previously referred to as Femme Fatale) guarantees to be a jubilant birthday celebration of LGBTQIA+ womxn. This annual 21+ tournament is devoted to honoring the achievements and contributions of womxn inside the neighborhood.
For extra information and updates at the 2024 Pride March birthday celebration and different occasions, talk over with nycpride.org and to enroll to volunteer please talk over with nycpride.org/volunteer and fill out the temporary shape.
June has been crucial month for the LGBTQIA+ rights motion since New York City’s first Pride march – then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day” march – on June 28, 1970.
That tournament marked an act of defiance from the 12 months ahead of, a 1969 rebellion at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the homosexual bar, a crowd partially led by way of trans girls of colour channeled their anger to confront government. It was once a catalyst to what was a world motion for LGBTQIA+ rights.
For greater than a half-century, the yearly marches had been a chance to call for motion on explicit problems such because the AIDS epidemic and same-sex marriage whilst additionally serving as a public birthday celebration.
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