New York City Pride March celebrates the LGBTQ community and is one of the largest annual Pride marches in the world. This year is a landmark year for NYC Pride because WorldPride 2019, NYC Pride and Stonewall50 are overlapping! It's the first time a U.S. city is hosting WorldPride AND it's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the event attributed with launching the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement!
The first LGBT Pride and March was held in 1970 on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and has become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years, is purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those lost to illness, neglect, and violence. Heritage of Pride, a nonprofit organization that plans and produces NYC's official LGBTQIA+ Pride events each year to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969, continues to recognize the Pride event as a March until a future without discrimination and complete and full equality has been achieved for all LGBT people.
Some of the largest components of NYC Pride includes the March, Rally, PrideFest, and Pride Island events. The route of the NYC Pride march goes through Lower Manhattan on Fifth Avenue through Greenwich Village and passes the Stonewall National Monument (a U.S. National Monument across the street from the Stonewall Inn, the site of the June 1969 riots). I remember hearing the parade and celebrations going on right outside my NYU dorm room located on Fifth Ave. when I interned!
I think it is so important for everyone to make the effort to better understand the struggles of others. Not only should we be thinking about how we can influence policies, we should all be consciously considering how we can help ourselves and others understand the importance of acceptance, equality, fairness, and mutual respect and how we can create comfortable and safe environments for everyone including the LGBTQ community.
ADVOCACY
NATIONAL HOTLINES
AIDS (STD) Hotline - 800.367.2437
Drug Line - 415.362.3400
LGBTQIA+ Domestic Violence and Hate Crimes Line - 415.333.HELP
LGBTQIA+ Youth Talkline (Support and Referral) - 800.246.PRIDE
The Trevor Project - 866.488.7386
NYC RESOURCES
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Community Pride Center - 347.889.7719
Forest Hills: Queens Community House - 718.592.5757
Jackson Heights: Queens Pride House - 718.429.5309
Manhattan: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center - 212.620.7310
Staten Island: The Staten Island LGBT Community Center - 718.808.1360
According to the iloveny site promoting tourism to NY state published by the New York Department of Economic Development, New York State has statewide non-discrimination and hate crimes laws that explicitly include actual and perceived sexual orientation, gender and/or sex, and other categories. While New York still needs to pass a statewide transgender civil rights law, there is currently some legal protection from gender identity and expression discrimination in New York, both under state law and a good number of local ordinances. And of course, New York has a marriage equality law. If you feel you have been discriminated against, or for more information on discrimination protection in New York State, click HERE.
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