Until a safe vaccine is readily available, life – particularly in densely-populated urban areas - will not resume as normal.īut, for LGBTQ-identifying people, Pride is more than just a parade. With person-to-person contact identified as the primary mode of coronavirus transmission, it’s clear that lockdown and social distancing measures slow the spread. And according to the European Pride Members Association, around 400 Pride events have been cancelled globally. Other major US cities have followed suit.
This year, however, due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Mayor Bill DeBlasio has announced that all NYC Pride events will be cancelled. Gay Pride Month During the Coronavirus Pandemic Last year’s celebration drew a record crowd of around 150,000 participants in Manhattan alone, and featured performances by Lady Gaga, Madonna, and others. As that movement gained momentum and visibility, Gay Pride kept pace, growing from small parades scattered across the US to a global event that lasts throughout the month of June. That first parade succeeded: thousands showed up, marching and chanting, to show their support for the emergent gay rights movement. That year, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a small group of gay and lesbian activists got a permit to parade along a short route, from the corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place to the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan, where the response to police raids on gay nightclubs had galvanized support for gay rights the previous June. Gay Pride has come a long way since June of 1970, when the first Gay Pride Parade was held.
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