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When: Sunday, June 30 from 7 to 10 p.m.Marchers can join at any point north of 23rd Street the organizers recommend Bryant Park at 11 a.m. Where: Starts at Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street continues up Sixth Avenue to Central Park.Where: Along Fifth Avenue from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park.Where: In front of the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street between Waverly and West 4th streets.Where: Gather at Tompkins Square Park march will travel to Sheridan Square, and the Stonewall Inn.When: Friday, June 28 from 7 to 10 p.m.Where: Rally will take place in Washington Square Park.Where: Barclays Center performers include Cyndi Lauper, Billy Porter, and Chaka Khan.When: Wednesday, June 26 from 7 to 10 p.m.There are plenty of smaller, local marches happening as well, along with events connected to the larger WorldPride festivities. Presented by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. In fact, there will be two marches happening on June 30: There’s the official march organized by Heritage of Pride, and there’s also the Queer Liberation March, organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition in response to “the exploitation of our communities for profit and against corporate and state pinkwashing, as displayed in Pride celebrations worldwide, including the NYC Pride Parade.” That event will begin earlier in the day, and will follow the route of the very first Pride march, which started in Greenwich Village and ended with a “gay-in” in Central Park, according to the LGBT Historic Sites Project. Looking Back/Looking Forward: NYC’s Gay Pride Parades 1979-1995. In 2015, an estimated 2 million spectators lined the two-mile route.The NYC Pride March, happening on June 30, may be the biggest and best-known of the events happening to commemorate Pride in New York City, but it’s not the only option for those honoring the LGBTQ community-and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the catalyst for much of the modern LGBTQ rights movement-this month. The route proceeds through Midtown down 5th Avenue, before heading west into Greenwich Village, ending at Christopher and Greenwich Streets. Where is the NYC Pride Parade For the fifth year in a row, the NYC Pride March will be broadcast on ABC-7. The 47th NYC Pride March will step off at noon on June 26, at 5th Avenue and 36th Street in Manhattan. The Gay Pride Parade in NYC is on Sunday, June 26, 2022, starting at noon. “In a post-marriage equality America, these leaders are ensuring that the barriers to LGBT people achieving true legal, health, and social equality are being broken down.” “Our 2016 theme, ‘Equality Needs You,’ could not be better reflected than through Jazz, Subhi, and Cecilia,” said Julian Sanjivan, NYC Pride March Director. Chung is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and is a Senior Strategist for the Transgender Law Center. As a founding producer of the San Francisco Trans March, Cecilia helped organize one of the world’s first and largest annual transgender events, which has since been replicated in cities across the U.S. He continues to advocate for LGBT refugees around the world and is currently working with a group of LGBTQ refugees in Turkey, called “Tea and Talk.”Ĭecilia Chung is an internationally recognized leader who has been advocating for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBTQ equality, and social justice, for more than 30 years. Security Council on the plight of LGBTQ people under persecution in his home country. Subhi Nahas is a Syrian refugee who co-founded the first LGBTQ magazine in Syria, Mawaleh. this month, as people the world over are celebrating and fighting for LGBTQ+. Her memoir, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen, will be published by Random House Children’s Books and hits bookstores on June 7. Gay Pride celebrations are taking place across the U.S. Jazz currently stars in the TLC docu-series I Am Jazz, returning on June 8. Since her first appearance with her family at age 6 on 20/20, Jazz has become one of the nation’s best known voices on the experiences of trans young people. Jazz Jennings is the 15-year-old honorary co-founder of the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation and the youngest Grand Marshal in NYC Pride history. Heritage of Pride recently announced three Grand Marshals for the 47th NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 26, 2016:
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Jazz Jennings is the co-founder of the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation(Photo: Mark DeLong/TLC)