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[title]New York is gearing up to celebrate a momentous Pride Month, commemorating not only the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots but also welcoming visitors from around the world for WorldPride. To mark the occasion, we collected images from NYC pride marches from over the last 50 years. Some were drawn from the New York Public Library’s fascinating “Love and Resistance: Stonewall 50” exhibition and others were provided via the New-York Historical Society’s “Stonewall 50,” one of our best museum exhibitions to see in New York this summer.
Check them out below!
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1969: The Stonewall Riots
Photograph: Courtesy New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images
1969: Gay Liberation Front marches on Times Square
Photograph: Courtesy New York Public Library/Manuscripts and Archives Division
1970: Ida, a member of the Gay Liberation Front and Lavender Menace
Photograph: Courtesy New York Public Library/Manuscripts and Archives Division
1970: Nancy Tucker and partner in Butch-Femme t-shirts
Photograph: Courtesy New York Public Library/Manuscripts and Archives Division
1973: Demonstration at City Hall
Photograph: Courtesy New York Public Library/Manuscripts and Archives Division
1983: Participants in the 14th annual March
Photograph: Courtesy Mario Cabrera/AP/Shutterstock
1988: ACT UP activists at Pride March
Photograph: Courtesy New-York Historical Society
1990: Two participants kiss outside St. Patrick's Cathedral
Photograph: Courtesy David Cantor/AP/Shutterstock
1995: Amazonia powders her face
Photograph: Courtesy Adam Nadel/AP/Shutterstock
2003: Five colorful marchers in midtown
Photograph: Courtesy Justin Lane/EPA/Shutterstock
2011: Paola Perez and Linda Collazo celebrate New York's legalization of gay marriage
Photograph: Courtesy Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock
2017: A kiss on the march route
Photograph: Kelsey Dubinsky
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