We were there: The 2011 LGBT Pride March

This year, there was much to celebrate.

By Ethan LaCroix Mon Jun 27 2011

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

  • Photograph: Syd London

Photograph: Eric Harvey Brown

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The annual LGBT Pride March is always a joyous event, but this year the parade on Fifth Avenue was especially triumphant. The legions of rainbow-decked celebrants were collectively beaming, and Governor Andrew Cuomo received thunderous rounds of applause all along the route. While the weekend was marred slightly by an irony-drenched reminder that LGBT struggles are not over—even in the birthplace of gay pride—the March itself was a thrilling and historic celebration of how far we've come.


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