He carried a sign that simply said “Love.” Many of Sunday’s marchers were scantily dressed, like one clad only in a bikini with a rainbow-colored bottom and a pink top.Īnother tanned and well-toned man on roller skates wearing a skimpy red trikini that amply displayed his sculpted abdominal muscles somehow managed to catch photographers’ attention. The route was altered this year in anticipation of the celebrations planned for next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots between gay nightclub patrons and police that, in 1969, gave birth to the US movement for gay rights. On foot, on roller skates, on motorbikes or riding on some 100 spectacularly colorful floats, participants moved slowly on a hot, sunny day along the 3-kilometer parade route from historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, over to Fifth Avenue, then up to 29th Street.
NEW YORK, USA – Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags and hoisting political banners marched and danced on the streets of New York on Sunday, June 24, in the latest festive edition of the Gay Pride parade that began in Central Park in 1970.
