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{{Short description|Event celebrating the LGBTQ community}}
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{{Infobox recurring event
| name               = NYC Pride March
| image              = Stonewall_Inn_5_pride_weekend_2016.jpg
| image_size         = 275px
| alt                = Facade of the Stonewall Inn, adorned in numerous rainbow flags for the announcement of the site being designated a National Monument.
| caption            = The [[Stonewall Inn]] in [[Greenwich Village]] was the site of the June 1969 [[Stonewall riots]]. That event in [[LGBT culture in New York City|New York City's queer history]] has served as a touchstone for [[LGBT social movements|various social movements]], as well as the catalyst for [[Pride parade]]s around the world.<ref name=GayGreenwichVillage1>{{cite web|url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/why-new-york-city-is-a-major-destination-for-lgbt-travelers/|title=Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers|author=Julia Goicochea|publisher=The Culture Trip|date=August 16, 2017|access-date=February 2, 2019}}</ref><ref name=GayGreenwichVillage2>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html
|title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement|author=Eli Rosenberg|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 24, 2016|access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref><ref name=GayGreenwichVillage3>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm |title=Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562 |publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=April 21, 2016}}</ref>
| organized          = [[Heritage of Pride]], since 1984
| frequency          = Annually, last Sunday in June
| location           = New York City, U.S.
| first              = {{Start date|1970|06|28}}, as part of Christopher Street Liberation Day
| next               = {{Start date|2025|06|29}}
}}
[[File:NYC Pride March 2022 -i---i- (52176731712).jpg|275px|thumb|Millions of spectators gather every June for the New York City Pride March, seen here in 2022.]]
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The '''NYC Pride March''' is an annual event celebrating the [[LGBT culture in New York City|LGBTQ community]] in [[New York City#Sexual orientation and gender identity|New York City]]. The largest [[pride parade]] and the [[List of largest LGBT events|largest pride event]] in the world, the NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June,<ref name=NYCWorld'sLargestPrideParade>{{cite web|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/06/25/48th-nyc-pride-march/|title=Revelers Take To The Streets For 48th Annual NYC Pride March|publisher=CBS New York|date=June 25, 2017|access-date=June 26, 2017|quote=A sea of rainbows took over the Big Apple for the biggest pride parade in the world Sunday.}}</ref><ref name=NYCWorld'sLargestPrideParade2>{{cite web |url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/05/first-nyc-pridefest-will-televised/ |title=ABC will broadcast New York's pride parade live for the first time |author=Dawn Ennis |publisher=LGBTQ Nation |date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=September 26, 2018|quote=Never before has any TV station in the entertainment and news media capital of the world carried what organizer boast is the world's largest Pride parade live on TV.}}</ref> and carries spiritual and historical significance for the worldwide LGBTQIA+ community and its advocates.  Entertainer [[Madonna]] stated in 2024, "Aside from my birthday, New York Pride is the most important day of the year."<ref name=NYCPrideMostImportantDay>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/06/30/madonna-pride-new-york-ladyland-festival/74262346007/#:~:text=%22Thank%20you%20all%20for%20coming,you%2C%20I%20am%20nothing.%22|title=Madonna celebrates NYC Pride at queer music fest: 'Most important day of the year'|author=Brendan Morrow|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=June 30, 2024|access-date=July 7, 2024|quote="Thank you all for coming out," Madonna told the crowd, according to a video shared on social media. "Aside from my birthday, New York Pride is the most important day of the year." She concluded, "Thank you all, New York City. Without you, I am nothing."}}</ref> The route through [[Lower Manhattan]] traverses south on [[Fifth Avenue]], through [[Greenwich Village]], passing the [[Stonewall National Monument]],<ref name="2019route">{{cite web | last=Riley | first=John | title=NYC Pride announces route for WorldPride NYC 2019/Stonewall 50 Pride March | website=Metro Weekly | date=March 20, 2019 | url=https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/03/nyc-pride-announces-route-for-worldpride-nyc-2019-stonewall-50-pride-march/ | access-date=June 3, 2019}}</ref> site of the [[Stonewall riots|June 1969 riots]] that launched the modern [[LGBT social movements|movement for LGBTQ+ rights]].

A central component of NYC Pride observances, the March occurs on the last Sunday in June.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://queerintheworld.com/gay-new-york-city-usa-travel-guide/ |title=queerintheworld.com  |date=January 6, 2019 |access-date=June 24, 2022}}</ref> An estimated 4 million attended the parade in 2019,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/irish-out-march-world-pride-new-york-city.amp|title=Irish march at historic World Pride in New York City|last=O'Doherty|first=Cahir|date=July 4, 2019|website=IrishCentral.com|access-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref> coinciding with the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|50th anniversary of Stonewall]], which drew 5 million visitors to [[LGBT culture in New York City|Manhattan]] on Pride weekend.<ref name=Authorities1>[https://abcnews.go.com/US/million-people-crowed-nyc-worldpride-mayor/story?id=64090338 About 5 million people attended WorldPride in NYC, mayor says] Accessed July 3, 2019.</ref> The 2020 (51st) and 2021 (52nd) editions of NYC Pride March were cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]]. NYC Pride March returned in 2022 for the first time despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City; the first parade since the one held in 2019 occurred on June 26, 2022.

==Origins==
{{See also|Stonewall riots}}
Early on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, [[bisexual]], and [[transgender]] (LGBT) people rioted, following a [[police raid]] on the [[Stonewall Inn]], a [[gay bar]] at 53 [[Christopher Street]] in [[Greenwich Village]], [[Lower Manhattan]]. This event, together with further protests and rioting over the following nights, marked a watershed moment in the modern [[LGBT rights]] movement and the impetus for organizing [[pride parade|LGBT pride marches]] on a much larger scale. Veterans of the riot formed a group, the Stonewall Veterans Association, which has continued to drive the advancement of LGBT rights from the rioting at the Stonewall Inn, to the present day.

In the weeks following the riots, 500 people gathered for a "Gay Power" demonstration in [[Washington Square Park]], followed by a march to Sheridan Square within the [[West Village]].<ref name="VVoice1969july31">{{cite news | last=Black | first=Jonathan | title=In the Wake of Stonewall: Gay Power Hits Back | work=[[The Village Voice]] | date=July 31, 1969 | url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/07/27/in-the-wake-of-stonewall-gay-power-hits-back/ | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref><ref name="MetroSourceStonewall50">{{cite web | title=Celebrate at the Stonewall 50 Commemoration | website=WorldPride 2019 Guide | url=https://metrosource.com/worldprideguide/event/stonewall-50-commemoration/ | access-date=June 26, 2019 | archive-date=June 26, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626040724/https://metrosource.com/worldprideguide/event/stonewall-50-commemoration/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>

On November 2, 1969, [[Craig Rodwell]], his partner [[Fred Sargeant]], [[Ellen Broidy]], and Linda Rhodes proposed an annual march to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the [[Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations]] (ERCHO) meeting in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="Sargeant 2010">{{cite web | last=Sargeant | first=Fred | title=1970: A First-Person Account of the First Gay Pride March | website=The Village Voice | date=June 22, 2010 | url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/06/22/1970-a-first-person-account-of-the-first-gay-pride-march/ | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>
<blockquote>
We propose that a demonstration be held annually on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street and this demonstration be called CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATION DAY. No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration.

We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. We propose a nationwide show of support.<ref name="Carter, pg. 230">Carter, p. 230</ref><ref>Marotta, pp. 164–165</ref><ref>Teal, pp. 322–323</ref><ref>Duberman, pp. 255, 262, 270–280</ref></blockquote>
[[File:Gay-button-Christopher-Street-liberation-day-1971-June-27.jpg|thumb|275px|[[Christopher Street]] [[Gay liberation|Liberation Day]] button promoting the second annual NYC Pride March on June 27, 1971]]
All attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for [[Mattachine Society]] of New York, which abstained.<ref name="Carter, pg. 230"/> Members of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN).<ref>Duberman, p. 227</ref>

Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 [[Bleecker Street]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/nyregion/for-gays-party-search-purpose-30-parade-has-gone-mainstream-movement-s-goals.html/ Nagourney, Adam. "For Gays, a Party In Search of a Purpose; At 30, Parade Has Gone Mainstream As Movement's Goals Have Drifte." ''New York Times.'' June 25, 2000.] retrieved January 3, 2011.</ref> At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York City organizations like [[Gay Activists Alliance]] (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and [[Foster Gunnison Jr.]] of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national [[homophile movement|homophile]] organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the [[Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop]] customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization.<ref>Carter, p. 247</ref><ref>Teal, p. 323</ref> Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and [[Brenda Howard]] of GLF.<ref>Duberman, p. 271</ref> Believing that more people would turn out for the march on a Sunday, and so as to mark the date of the start of the Stonewall uprising, the committee scheduled the date for the first march for Sunday, June 28, 1970.<ref>Duberman, p. 272</ref> With Dick Leitsch's replacement as president of Mattachine NY by Michael Kotis in April 1970, opposition to the march by Mattachine ended.<ref>Duberman, p. 314 n93</ref>

{{Quote box |width=30em | bgcolor=#FBCCE7 |align=right |qalign=left |quote=''There was little open animosity, and some bystanders applauded when a tall, pretty girl carrying a sign "I am a Lesbian" walked by.''&nbsp;– ''The New York Times'' coverage of Gay Liberation Day, 1970<ref name="fosburgh"/>}}
[[Christopher Street]] Liberation Day on June 28, 1970, marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a march from [[Sheridan Square]], covering the 51&nbsp;blocks to the [[Sheep Meadow]] in [[Central Park]]. The march took less than half the scheduled time due to excitement, but also due to wariness about walking through the city with gay banners and signs. Although the parade permit was delivered only two hours before the start of the march, participants encountered little resistance from onlookers.<ref>Clendinen, pp. 62–64.</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported (on the front page) that the march extended for about 15&nbsp;city blocks.<ref name="fosburgh">Fosburgh, Lacey (June 29, 1970). [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/29/archives/thousands-of-homosexuals-hold-a-protest-rally-in-central-park.html "Thousands of Homosexuals Hold A Protest Rally in Central Park"], ''The New York Times'', p. 1.</ref> Reporting by ''The Village Voice'' was positive, describing "the out-front resistance that grew out of the police raid on the Stonewall Inn one year ago".<ref name="lafrank20">LaFrank, p. 20.</ref> There was also an assembly on Christopher Street.

==Organizers==
{{Main|Heritage of Pride}}
The first March in 1970 was organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee.<ref name="wbchris">{{cite web|url=http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/christopher.html |title=Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day: 1970|last=Stryker|first=Susan|publisher=PlanetOut|access-date=June 28, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080331061402/http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/christopher.html |archive-date = March 31, 2008}}</ref>  Since 1984, the parade and related LGBT pride events in New York City have been produced and organized by [[Heritage of Pride]] (HOP), a volunteer spearheaded, [[non-partisan]], tax-exempt, non-profit organization.<ref name="ABOUT HERITAGE OF PRIDE">{{cite web |url=http://www.nycpride.org/about.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324210723/http://www.nycpride.org/about.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2008 |title=About Heritage Of Pride |publisher=Nyc Pride |access-date=December 3, 2013 }}</ref> HOP welcomes participation regardless of age, creed, gender, gender identification, HIV status, national origin, physical, mental or developmental ability, race, or religion. HOP does not use qualifiers for participation.

In 2021, NYC Pride organizers announced that uniformed law enforcement would be banned from marching in the parade until 2025, when the ban will be reexamined by committees and the executive board of NYC Pride.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nycpride.org/news-press-media/nyc-pride-announces-new-policies-to-address-police-presence|title=NYC Pride announces new policies to address police presence|date= May 15, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-6fa351ba72230b59bf76ec8d51024e40|title = NYC Pride ban on uniformed police reflects a deeper tension| work=[[Associated Press News]] |date = June 24, 2021}}</ref>
[[Image:Pride Crosswalk at Christopher Street and Stonewall National Monument.jpg|275px|thumb|Rainbow striped crosswalk at the corner of 7th Ave. and Christopher St.]]

==Broadcast==
For many years, the march was only available locally to Time Warner Cable customers, via its [[NY1]] news channel. In 2017 [[WABC-TV]] broadcast the NYC LGBT Pride March live for the first time regionally, and made the stream available to all parts of the globe where such content is accessible.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://abc7ny.com/travel/nyc-pride-march-makes-its-way-through-streets-of-manhattan/2144582/|title=NYC Pride March makes its way through streets of Manhattan|date=June 25, 2017|work=ABC7 New York|access-date=April 29, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nyc-pride-march-be-broadcast-tv-network-first-time-n763796|title=New York City Pride March to be broadcast by TV network for first time|publisher=NBC News|access-date=April 29, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> WABC-TV continues to broadcast the first three hours of each years march (which has had an actual run time over nine hours in 2017 and 2018). Both the 2017 and 2018 broadcasts were Emmy nominated programs. In 2022, the WABC-TV broadcast was also available via streaming from [[ABC News Live]] and [[Hulu]].

==Schisms==
{{See also||Against Equality|Gay Shame}}
Over the course of five decades, various groups have accused the NYC Pride March of losing its political, activist roots and becoming a venue for [[Pinkwashing (LGBT)|corporate pinkwashing]], [[rainbow capitalism]], and [[Cultural assimilation|assimilation]] of queer identities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gaffney |first1=Emma |title=Reclaiming the Revolutionary Spirit of Stonewall at the Queer Liberation March |url=https://indypendent.org/2019/07/reclaiming-the-revolutionary-spirit-of-stonewall-at-the-queer-liberation-march/ |website=indypendent.org |access-date=July 11, 2019}}</ref> Such critiques have given rise to various independent events conducted without permits or police. Since 1993 the NYC [[Dyke March]] has been held annually on the Saturday prior.<ref name="NYC Dyke March">{{cite web | title=Herstory | website=NYC Dyke March | url=https://www.nycdykemarch.com/herstory | access-date=May 18, 2019 | archive-date=May 28, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528055007/https://www.nycdykemarch.com/herstory/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>  Since 1994 the [[New York City Drag March]] has been held annually on the Friday prior; it began as a protest against the ban on leather and drag during the 25th anniversary of Stonewall.<ref>{{cite web | title=Hundreds of Drag Queens Fill the NYC Streets Every Year for this Drag March | website=HuffPost | date=June 25, 2018 | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyc-drag-march_n_5b2fb345e4b0040e274410a0 | access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Maurer | first=Daniel | title=This Year's 'Magical, Strengthening' Drag March | website=Bedford + Bowery | date=June 25, 2018 | url=https://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/06/watch-video-of-this-years-magical-strengthening-drag-march/ | access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref> Coinciding with the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|50th anniversary of Stonewall]] in 2019, the [[Reclaim Pride Coalition]] organized the first [[Queer Liberation March]], held on Sunday morning, hours before the NYC Pride parade.<ref name="WashingtonBlade2marches2019">{{cite web | title=Two marches set to highlight New York City's Pride events | website=Washington Blade | date=May 15, 2019 | url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/05/15/two-marches-set-to-highlight-new-york-citys-pride-events/ | access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref><ref name="NBCNews2019QLM">{{cite web | title='Queer Liberation March' sets stage for dueling NYC gay pride events | publisher=NBC News | date=May 15, 2019 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/queer-liberation-march-sets-stage-dueling-nyc-gay-pride-events-n1006006 | access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref>

== Size ==
{{see also|List of largest LGBT events}}
The first march, in 1970, was front-page news in ''[[The New York Times]]'' reporting the march extended for about fifteen city blocks.<ref name="fosburgh" /> The march had thousands of participants with organizers "who said variously 3,000 and 5,000 and even 20,000."<ref name="fosburgh" /> The variance could be due, in part, that although the march started with over a dozen homosexual and [[feminist]] contingents, parade spectators were encouraged to join the procession.<ref name="fosburgh" />  Currently, [[Heritage of Pride]] requires preregistration of marchers, and sets up barricades along the entire route discouraging the practice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/1651608/nyc-pride-rivaled-by-the-anti-corporate-reclaim-pride-march/|title=There is a radical new alternative to the NYC Pride march that rejects corporate influence|last=Merelli|first=Annalisa|date=June 27, 2019|website=Quartz|language=en|access-date=July 11, 2019}}</ref>

Although [[Crowd counting|estimating crowd size]] is an imprecise science, the NYC March is consistently considered the largest [[Pride parade]] in North America, with 2.1&nbsp;million people in 2015, and 2.5&nbsp;million in 2016.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theactivetimes.com/travel/worlds-biggest-pride-parades|title=The World's Biggest Pride Parades|date=June 4, 2018|website=The Active Times|language=en|access-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref> In 2018, attendance was estimated around two million.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-pride-march-tries-new-route-to-prepare-for-next-years-parade-1529868584|title=NYC Pride March Tries New Route to Prepare for Next Year's Event|last=Passy|first=Charles|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=June 24, 2018|language=en-US|access-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref> In 2024, the estimated crowd size was 2.5&nbsp;million.<ref name=NYCPride2024>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/14-photos-from-nycs-2024-pride-march-that-absolutely-slay-070124|title=14 photos from NYC's 2024 Pride March that absolutely slay|author=
Rossilynne Skena Culgan|work=Time Out|date=July 1, 2024|access-date=July 10, 2024}}</ref> In 2019, as part of [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC]], an estimated 5 million people took part over the final weekend of the celebrations,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/million-people-crowed-nyc-worldpride-mayor/story?id=64090338|title=Millions more attended WorldPride than expected|last1=Allen|first1=Karma|last2=Katersky|first2=Aaron|date=July 2, 2019|website=ABC News|language=en|access-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gay-pride-idUSKCN1TV0T2|title=Millions celebrate LGBTQ pride in New York amid global fight for equality: organizers|last1=Caspani|first1=Maria|work=Reuters|access-date=July 8, 2019|last2=Lavietes|first2=Matthew}}</ref> with an estimated 4 million in attendance at the parade.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amp.gothamist.com/amp/articles/create?article_id=5d1a0666fa7735000188ec04|title=Photos: Massive Turnout For Euphoric NYC Pride March: Gothamist|last=Lynch|first=Scott|website=Gothamist|access-date=July 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703202525/https://amp.gothamist.com/amp/articles/create?article_id=5d1a0666fa7735000188ec04|archive-date=July 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 12-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/cost-corporatization-fierte-montreal-preps-bid-for-2023-worldpride|title=Cost, corporatization: Fierté Montréal preps bid for 2023 WorldPride|last=Burnett|first=Richard|date=July 9, 2019|website=Montreal Gazette|language=en|access-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> It was the largest parade of any kind in [[History of New York City|the city's history]] and four times as large as the annual [[Times Square Ball]] on New Year's Eve.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pix11.com/2019/06/28/how-the-nypd-will-keep-pride-the-largest-nyc-public-event-ever-safe/|title=How the NYPD will keep Pride, the largest NYC public event ever, safe|last=Ford|first=James|date=June 28, 2019|website=WPIX 11 New York|access-date=July 11, 2019}}</ref>

== NYC Pride March edition dates ==
 
=== 1981 and earlier ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Edition number!!Date!!Also known as
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|1st||June 28, 1970||NYC Pride March 1970
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|2nd||June 27, 1971||NYC Pride March 1971
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|3rd||June 25, 1972||NYC Pride March 1972
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|4th||June 24, 1973||NYC Pride March 1973
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|5th||June 30, 1974||NYC Pride March 1974
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|6th||June 29, 1975||NYC Pride March 1975
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|7th||June 27, 1976||NYC Pride March 1976
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|8th||June 26, 1977||NYC Pride March 1977
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|9th||June 25, 1978||NYC Pride March 1978
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|10th||June 24, 1979||NYC Pride March 1979
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|11th||June 29, 1980||NYC Pride March 1980
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|12th||June 28, 1981||NYC Pride March 1981
|}
=== 1982–2019 ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Edition number!!Date!!Also known as
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|13th||June 27, 1982||NYC Pride March 1982
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|14th||June 26, 1983||NYC Pride March 1983
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|15th||June 24, 1984||NYC Pride March 1984
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|16th||June 30, 1985||NYC Pride March 1985
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|17th||June 29, 1986||NYC Pride March 1986
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|18th||June 28, 1987||NYC Pride March 1987
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|19th||June 26, 1988||NYC Pride March 1988
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|20th||June 25, 1989||NYC Pride March 1989
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|21st||June 24, 1990||NYC Pride March 1990
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|22nd||June 30, 1991||NYC Pride March 1991
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|23rd||June 28, 1992||NYC Pride March 1992
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|24th||June 27, 1993||NYC Pride March 1993
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|25th||June 26, 1994||NYC Pride March 1994
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|26th||June 25, 1995||NYC Pride March 1995
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|27th||June 30, 1996||NYC Pride March 1996
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|28th||June 29, 1997||NYC Pride March 1997
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|29th||June 28, 1998||NYC Pride March 1998
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|30th||June 27, 1999||NYC Pride March 1999
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|31st||June 25, 2000||NYC Pride March 2000
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|32nd||June 24, 2001||NYC Pride March 2001
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|33rd||June 30, 2002||NYC Pride March 2002
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|34th||June 29, 2003||NYC Pride March 2003
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|35th||June 27, 2004||NYC Pride March 2004
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|36th||June 26, 2005||NYC Pride March 2005
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|37th||June 25, 2006||NYC Pride March 2006
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|38th||June 24, 2007||NYC Pride March 2007
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|39th||June 29, 2008||NYC Pride March 2008
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|40th||June 28, 2009||NYC Pride March 2009
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|41st||June 27, 2010||NYC Pride March 2010
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|42nd||June 26, 2011||NYC Pride March 2011
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|43rd||June 24, 2012||NYC Pride March 2012
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|44th||June 30, 2013||NYC Pride March 2013
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|45th||June 29, 2014||NYC Pride March 2014
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|46th||June 28, 2015||NYC Pride March 2015
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|47th||June 26, 2016||NYC Pride March 2016
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|48th||June 25, 2017||NYC Pride March 2017
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|49th||June 24, 2018||NYC Pride March 2018
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|50th||June 30, 2019||NYC Pride March 2019
|}

=== 2022 and later ===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Edition number!!Date!!Also known as
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|53rd||June 26, 2022||NYC Pride March 2022
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|54th||June 25, 2023||NYC Pride March 2023
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|55th||June 30, 2024||NYC Pride March 2024
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|56th||June 29, 2025||NYC Pride March 2025
|}

==Grand marshals==
===2025===
* [[Karine Jean-Pierre]]; [[Marti Gould Cummings]]

===2024===
* [[Miss Major]]; [[Michelle Visage]]; [[Raquel Willis]]; and DaShawn Usher of [[GLAAD]]
* Youth Activist grand marshals: singer-songwriter Baddie Brooks, [[Hetrick-Martin Institute]] advocate Robin Drake, and content creator Eshe Ukweli<ref name="2024announce">{{cite web | last=White | first=Erin | title=NYC Pride 2024 announces grand marshals including Baddie Brooks, Michelle Visage, Miss Major | website=audacy.com | date=May 4, 2024 | url=https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/nyc-pride-2024-grand-marshals-miss-major-michelle-visage | access-date=June 30, 2024}}</ref><ref name="CBS2024">{{cite web | last=Anderson | first=Renee | title=NYC Pride March 2024 kicks off today. Map shows the route and where it will end. | website=CBS New York | date=June 29, 2024 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-pride-mach-2024/ | access-date=June 30, 2024}}</ref>

===2023===
* [[Billy Porter]]; [[Yasmin Benoit]], the first openly [[Asexuality|asexual]] Grand Marshal;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Monaghan |first=Ray |date=May 23, 2023 |title=Meet the First-Ever Asexual Grand Marshal at NYC Pride |url=https://gayety.co/meet-first-ever-asexual-grand-marshal-nyc-pride |access-date=May 28, 2023 |website=Gayety |language=en-US}}</ref> artist and educator AC Dumlao; [[Hope Giselle]];<ref name="guard-15oct2023">{{cite news |title='Live out loud': US Black queer activists fight against 'tactics of erasure' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/black-queer-activists-fight-tactics-of-erasure |access-date=October 15, 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=October 15, 2023}}</ref> and [[Randy Wicker]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 18, 2023 |title=Grand Marshals announced for 2023 NYC Pride March |url=https://abc7ny.com/nyc-pride-march-grand-marshal/13265726/ |access-date=May 28, 2023 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref>

===2022===
[[File:NYC Pride March 2022 -i---i- (52178251345).jpg|275px|thumb|Moment during the 2022 NYC Pride March]]
* [[Ts Madison]]; [[Chase Strangio]]; [[Punkie Johnson]]; [[Schuyler Bailar]]; and Dominique Morgan of [[The Okra Project]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 10, 2022 |title=NYC Pride announces grand marshals for 2022 LGBTQ march |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/nyc-pride-announces-grand-marshals-2022-lgbtq-march-rcna27950 |access-date=May 28, 2023 |publisher=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

The [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]] resulted in cancelation of the 2020 and 2021 events.

=== 2019: Stonewall 50 ===
[[File:NYC Pride 2019 05.jpg|thumb|275px|An estimated 5 million people attended [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019]], the [[List of largest LGBT events|world's largest LGBT event in history]].]]
{{Main|Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019}}
* [[Mj Rodriguez]], [[Indya Moore]], and [[Dominique Jackson (model)|Dominique Jackson]] from the cast of [[Pose (TV series)|''Pose'']]; [[Phyll Opoku-Gyimah]]; [[Monica Helms]], creator of the 1999 [[transgender pride flag]]; [[The Trevor Project]]; and the [[Gay Liberation Front]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.out.com/news/2019/4/11/cast-pose-named-grand-marshals-nyc-pride-march|title=The Cast of 'Pose' Named Grand Marshals of NYC Pride March|date=April 11, 2019|website=out.com|language=en|access-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref>

===2018===
* [[Billie Jean King]]; [[Lambda Legal]]; [[Tyler Ford]]; and [[Kenita Placide]]<ref name="Zeigler 2018">{{cite web | last=Zeigler | first=Cyd | title=Billie Jean King named New York City Pride Grand Marshal | website=Outsports | date=March 30, 2018 | url=https://www.outsports.com/2018/3/30/17178422/billie-jean-new-york-city-pride-grand-marshal | access-date=April 26, 2019}}</ref>

===2017===
* [[American Civil Liberties Union]]; Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender [[FDNY]] firefighter; Krishna Stone of [[Gay Men's Health Crisis]]; Geng Le, Chinese LGBT rights leader and founder of [[Blued (app)|Blued]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nyc-pride-march-year-s-grand-marshals-announced-n743086|title=NYC Pride March: This year's Grand Marshals announced|publisher=NBC News|access-date=April 6, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

=== 2016 ===
* [[Jazz Jennings]]; [[Cecilia Chung]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycpride.org/events/the-march/|title=The March – NYC Pride|language=en-US|access-date=June 27, 2016|archive-date=July 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701234749/https://www.nycpride.org/events/the-march/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Subhi Nahas, refugee and cofounder of the first LGBT magazine in Syria

===2015===
[[Image:Pride Parade New York June 28, 2015 8.jpg|275px|thumb|Moment during the 2015 NYC Pride March]]
* [[Ian McKellen]]; [[Derek Jacobi]]; [[Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera]]; and J. Christopher Neal, the first openly bisexual Grand Marshal<ref name="Hrc.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrc.org/blog/from-brenda-howard-to-j.-christopher-neal-bisexual-leaders-and-pride |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222032549/http://www.hrc.org/blog/from-brenda-howard-to-j.-christopher-neal-bisexual-leaders-and-pride |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |title=From Brenda Howard to J. Christopher Neal: Bisexual Leaders and Pride |publisher=Human Rights Campaign |date=June 30, 2015 |access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref>

===2014===
* [[Laverne Cox]]; [[Jonathan Groff]]; and [[Rea Carey]] of the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]]

===2013===
* [[Edith Windsor]], plaintiff in ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'', which struck down Section 3 of the [[Defense of Marriage Act]];<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/29/opinion/windsor-supreme-court-fight/index.html |title=Opinion: My late wife is thanking you, too |publisher=CNN |access-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref> [[Earl Fowlkes]]; and [[Harry Belafonte]]

===2012===
* [[Cyndi Lauper]]; Chris Salgardo of [[Kiehl's]]; Connie Kopelov & Phyllis Siegel, New York City's first legally married same-sex couple<ref name="HOP2012_March">{{cite news|title=Heritage of Pride announces Grand Marshals for the 43rd annual LGBT Pride March|url=http://www.nycpride.org/pdf/2012GrandMarshalPressRelease.pdf|date=March 14, 2012|access-date=March 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117114544/http://www.nycpride.org/pdf/2012GrandMarshalPressRelease.pdf|archive-date=January 17, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2011===
[[Image:New York Gay Pride 2011.jpg|275px|thumb|Moment during the 2011 NYC Pride March]]
* [[Dan Savage]] and Terry Miller, [[It Gets Better Project]]; Rev. Pat Bumgardner, [[Metropolitan Community Church of New York]]; and the [[Imperial Court System|Imperial Court]] of New York<ref name="HOP2011_April">{{cite news|title=Judy Shepard to Make final official Pride Appearance & Serve as Grand Marshal of the 41st Annual NYC LGBT Pride March|url=http://www.nycpride.org/pdf/2011_GM%20Press%20Release_FINAL.pdf|date=April 2011|access-date=October 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109065050/http://www.nycpride.org/pdf/2011_GM%20Press%20Release_FINAL.pdf|archive-date=November 9, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===2010===
* [[Constance McMillen]]; [[Judy Shepard]]; and Lt. [[Dan Choi]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Bolcer |first=Julie |url=http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/13/McMillen_Named_NYC_Gay_Pride_Grand_Marshal/ |title=McMillen Named NYC Gay Pride Grand Marshal |publisher=Advocate.com |date=April 13, 2010 |access-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref>

===2009: Stonewall 40===
* [[Cleve Jones]]; [[Anne Kronenberg]]; and [[Dustin Lance Black]]

===2008===
* [[Gilbert Baker (artist)|Gilbert Baker]]; [[Candice Cayne]]; New York Governor [[David A. Paterson]]; New York Senator [[Charles Schumer]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressphotointernational.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/senator-charles-schumer-marches-in-ny-gay-pride-parade/ |title=Senator Charles Schumer Marches in NY Gay Pride Parade &#124; PressPhoto International |publisher=Pressphotointernational.wordpress.com |date=June 29, 2008 |access-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref> and NYC Mayor [[Mike Bloomberg]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/nyregion/30paterson.html|title=Celebrating Gay Pride and Its Albany Friend|first=Jeremy W.|last=Peters|work=The New York Times |date=June 30, 2008}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|LGBTQ|World|New York (state)|New York City|United States}}
* [[LGBT culture in New York City]]
* [[List of largest LGBT events]]
* [[List of LGBT awareness days]]
* [[List of LGBT events]]
* [[List of LGBT people from New York City]]
* [[Queens Liberation Front]]
* [[Queens Pride Parade]]
* [[St. Pat's for All]]
* [[Timeline of LGBT history in New York City]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.nycpride.org/ NYC Pride (Heritage of Pride, Inc.)]
* [https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01991430/ ''Gay and Proud''], 1970 documentary film by [[Lilli Vincenz]] of the first march in New York City

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