# NYC Pride March

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The **NYC Pride March** is an annual event celebrating the [LGBTQ community in New York City](/source/LGBTQ_community_in_New_York_City). The largest [pride parade](/source/Pride_parade) and the [largest pride event](/source/List_of_largest_LGBT_events) in the world, the NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June,[1][2] and carries spiritual and historical significance for the worldwide [LGBTQ community](/source/LGBTQ_community) and its advocates. Entertainer [Madonna](/source/Madonna) stated in 2024, "Aside from my birthday, New York Pride is the most important day of the year."[3] The route through [Lower Manhattan](/source/Lower_Manhattan) traverses south on [Fifth Avenue](/source/Fifth_Avenue), through [Greenwich Village](/source/Greenwich_Village), passing the [Stonewall National Monument](/source/Stonewall_National_Monument),[4] site of the [June 1969 riots](/source/Stonewall_riots) that launched the modern [movement for LGBTQ rights](/source/LGBTQ_movements).

A central component of NYC Pride observances, the March occurs on the last Sunday in June.[5] An estimated 4 million attended the parade in 2019,[6] coinciding with the [50th anniversary of Stonewall](/source/Stonewall_50_%E2%80%93_WorldPride_NYC_2019), which drew 5 million visitors to [Manhattan](/source/LGBT_culture_in_New_York_City) on Pride weekend.[7] The 2020 (51st) and 2021 (52nd) editions of NYC Pride March were cancelled due to the [COVID-19 pandemic in New York City](/source/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](/source/Stonewall_riots) and [Gay liberation](/source/Gay_liberation)

Early on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people rioted, following a [police raid](/source/Police_raid) on the [Stonewall Inn](/source/Stonewall_Inn), a [gay bar](/source/Gay_bar) at 53 [Christopher Street](/source/Christopher_Street) in [Greenwich Village](/source/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](/source/LGBT_rights) movement and the impetus for organizing [pride parades](/source/Pride_parade) 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](/source/Washington_Square_Park), followed by a march to Sheridan Square within the [West Village](/source/West_Village).[8][9]

On November 2, 1969, [Craig Rodwell](/source/Craig_Rodwell), his partner [Fred Sargeant](/source/Fred_Sargeant), [Ellen Broidy](/source/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](/source/Eastern_Regional_Conference_of_Homophile_Organizations) (ERCHO) meeting in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia).[10]

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.[11][12][13][14]

All attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for [Mattachine Society](/source/Mattachine_Society) of New York, which abstained.[11] Members of the [Gay Liberation Front](/source/Gay_Liberation_Front) (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN).[15]

Meetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 [Bleecker Street](/source/Bleecker_Street).[16] At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York City organizations like [Gay Activists Alliance](/source/Gay_Activists_Alliance) (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and [Foster Gunnison Jr.](/source/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](/source/Homophile_movement) organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the [Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop](/source/Oscar_Wilde_Memorial_Bookshop) customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization.[17][18] Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and [Brenda Howard](/source/Brenda_Howard) of GLF.[19] 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.[20] With Dick Leitsch's replacement as president of Mattachine NY by Michael Kotis in April 1970, opposition to the march by Mattachine ended.[21]

*There was little open animosity, and some bystanders applauded when a tall, pretty girl carrying a sign "I am a Lesbian" walked by.* – *The New York Times* coverage of Gay Liberation Day, 1970[22]

[Christopher Street](/source/Christopher_Street) Liberation Day on June 28, 1970, marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a march from [Sheridan Square](/source/Sheridan_Square), covering the 51 blocks to the [Sheep Meadow](/source/Sheep_Meadow) in [Central Park](/source/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.[23] *The New York Times* reported (on the front page) that the march extended for about 15 city blocks.[22] 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".[24] There was also an assembly on Christopher Street.

## Organizers

Main article: [Heritage of Pride](/source/Heritage_of_Pride)

The first March in 1970 was organized by the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee.[25] Since 1984, the parade and related LGBT pride events in New York City have been produced and organized by [Heritage of Pride](/source/Heritage_of_Pride) (HOP), a volunteer spearheaded, [non-partisan](/source/Non-partisan), tax-exempt, non-profit organization.[26] 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.[27][28]

## Broadcast

For many years, the march was only available locally to Time Warner Cable customers, via its [NY1](/source/NY1) news channel. In 2017 [WABC-TV](/source/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.[29][30] 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](/source/ABC_News_Live) and [Hulu](/source/Hulu).

## Schisms

See also: [Against Equality](/source/Against_Equality) and [Gay Shame](/source/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 [corporate pinkwashing](/source/Pinkwashing_(LGBT)), [rainbow capitalism](/source/Rainbow_capitalism), and [assimilation](/source/Cultural_assimilation) of queer identities.[31] Such critiques have given rise to various independent events conducted without permits or police. Since 1993 the NYC [Dyke March](/source/Dyke_March) has been held annually on the Saturday prior.[32] Since 1994 the [New York City Drag March](/source/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.[33][34] Coinciding with the [50th anniversary of Stonewall](/source/Stonewall_50_%E2%80%93_WorldPride_NYC_2019) in 2019, the [Reclaim Pride Coalition](/source/Reclaim_Pride_Coalition) organized the first [Queer Liberation March](/source/Queer_Liberation_March), held on Sunday morning, hours before the NYC Pride parade.[35][36]

## Size

See also: [List of largest LGBT events](/source/List_of_largest_LGBT_events)

The first march, in 1970, was front-page news in *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)* reporting the march extended for about fifteen city blocks.[22] The march had thousands of participants with organizers "who said variously 3,000 and 5,000 and even 20,000."[22] The variance could be due, in part, that although the march started with over a dozen homosexual and [feminist](/source/Feminist) contingents, parade spectators were encouraged to join the procession.[22] Currently, [Heritage of Pride](/source/Heritage_of_Pride) requires preregistration of marchers, and sets up barricades along the entire route discouraging the practice.[37]

Although [estimating crowd size](/source/Crowd_counting) is an imprecise science, the NYC March is consistently considered the largest [Pride parade](/source/Pride_parade) in North America, with 2.1 million people in 2015, and 2.5 million in 2016.[38] In 2018, attendance was estimated around two million.[39] In 2024, the estimated crowd size was 2.5 million.[40] In 2019, as part of [Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC](/source/Stonewall_50_%E2%80%93_WorldPride_NYC_2019), an estimated 5 million people took part over the final weekend of the celebrations,[41][42] with an estimated 4 million in attendance at the parade.[6][43] The 12-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups.[44] It was the largest parade of any kind in [the city's history](/source/History_of_New_York_City) and four times as large as the annual [Times Square Ball](/source/Times_Square_Ball) on New Year's Eve.[45]

## NYC Pride March edition dates

### 1981 and earlier

Edition Date Also known as Theme 1st June 28, 1970 NYC Pride March 1970 2nd June 27, 1971 NYC Pride March 1971 3rd June 25, 1972 NYC Pride March 1972 4th June 24, 1973 NYC Pride March 1973 5th June 30, 1974 NYC Pride March 1974 6th June 29, 1975 NYC Pride March 1975 7th June 27, 1976 NYC Pride March 1976 8th June 26, 1977 NYC Pride March 1977 9th June 25, 1978 NYC Pride March 1978 10th June 24, 1979 NYC Pride March 1979 11th June 29, 1980 NYC Pride March 1980 12th June 28, 1981 NYC Pride March 1981

### 1982–2019

Edition Date Also known as Theme 13th June 27, 1982 NYC Pride March 1982 14th June 26, 1983 NYC Pride March 1983 15th June 24, 1984 NYC Pride March 1984 16th June 30, 1985 NYC Pride March 1985 17th June 29, 1986 NYC Pride March 1986 18th June 28, 1987 NYC Pride March 1987 19th June 26, 1988 NYC Pride March 1988 20th June 25, 1989 NYC Pride March 1989 21st June 24, 1990 NYC Pride March 1990 22nd June 30, 1991 NYC Pride March 1991 23rd June 28, 1992 NYC Pride March 1992 24th June 27, 1993 NYC Pride March 1993 25th June 26, 1994 NYC Pride March 1994 26th June 25, 1995 NYC Pride March 1995 27th June 30, 1996 NYC Pride March 1996 28th June 29, 1997 NYC Pride March 1997 29th June 28, 1998 NYC Pride March 1998 30th June 27, 1999 NYC Pride March 1999 31st June 25, 2000 NYC Pride March 2000 Take Pride, Take Joy, Take Action[46] 32nd June 24, 2001 NYC Pride March 2001 33rd June 30, 2002 NYC Pride March 2002 34th June 29, 2003 NYC Pride March 2003 35th June 27, 2004 NYC Pride March 2004 36th June 26, 2005 NYC Pride March 2005 37th June 25, 2006 NYC Pride March 2006 38th June 24, 2007 NYC Pride March 2007 39th June 29, 2008 NYC Pride March 2008 40th June 28, 2009 NYC Pride March 2009 41st June 27, 2010 NYC Pride March 2010 42nd June 26, 2011 NYC Pride March 2011 43rd June 24, 2012 NYC Pride March 2012 44th June 30, 2013 NYC Pride March 2013 45th June 29, 2014 NYC Pride March 2014 46th June 28, 2015 NYC Pride March 2015 47th June 26, 2016 NYC Pride March 2016 48th June 25, 2017 NYC Pride March 2017 49th June 24, 2018 NYC Pride March 2018 50th June 30, 2019 NYC Pride March 2019

### 2022 and later

Edition Date Also known as Theme 53rd June 26, 2022 NYC Pride March 2022 54th June 25, 2023 NYC Pride March 2023 55th June 30, 2024 NYC Pride March 2024 56th June 29, 2025 NYC Pride March 2025 "Rise Up: Pride in Protest"[47] 57th June 28, 2026 NYC Pride March 2026 "For All of Us"[48]

## Grand marshals

### 2026

- [Dominique Jackson](/source/Dominique_Jackson_(model)), [Peppermint](/source/Peppermint_(entertainer))[49], [Bernie Wagenblast](/source/Bernie_Wagenblast), [Bowen Yang](/source/Bowen_Yang), and [Gays Against Guns](/source/Gays_Against_Guns)[50]

### 2025

- [Karine Jean-Pierre](/source/Karine_Jean-Pierre); [Marti Gould Cummings](/source/Marti_Gould_Cummings); Trans Formative Schools; [DJ Lina Bradford](/source/Lina_Bradford); and Elisa Crespo[51]

### 2024

- [Miss Major](/source/Miss_Major); [Michelle Visage](/source/Michelle_Visage); [Raquel Willis](/source/Raquel_Willis); and DaShawn Usher of [GLAAD](/source/GLAAD)
- Youth Activist grand marshals: singer-songwriter Baddie Brooks, [Hetrick-Martin Institute](/source/Hetrick-Martin_Institute) advocate Robin Drake, and content creator Eshe Ukweli[52][53]

### 2023

- [Billy Porter](/source/Billy_Porter); [Yasmin Benoit](/source/Yasmin_Benoit), the first openly [asexual](/source/Asexuality) Grand Marshal;[54] artist and educator AC Dumlao; [Hope Giselle](/source/Hope_Giselle);[55] and [Randy Wicker](/source/Randy_Wicker)[56]

### 2022

- [Ts Madison](/source/Ts_Madison); [Chase Strangio](/source/Chase_Strangio); [Punkie Johnson](/source/Punkie_Johnson); [Schuyler Bailar](/source/Schuyler_Bailar); and Dominique Morgan of [The Okra Project](/source/The_Okra_Project)[57]

### **2021**

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

### **2020**

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

### 2019: Stonewall 50

Main article: [Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019](/source/Stonewall_50_%E2%80%93_WorldPride_NYC_2019)

- [Mj Rodriguez](/source/Mj_Rodriguez), [Indya Moore](/source/Indya_Moore), and [Dominique Jackson](/source/Dominique_Jackson_(model)) from the cast of [*Pose*](/source/Pose_(TV_series)); [Phyll Opoku-Gyimah](/source/Phyll_Opoku-Gyimah); [Monica Helms](/source/Monica_Helms), creator of the 1999 [transgender pride flag](/source/Transgender_pride_flag); [The Trevor Project](/source/The_Trevor_Project); and the [Gay Liberation Front](/source/Gay_Liberation_Front)[58]

### 2018

- [Billie Jean King](/source/Billie_Jean_King); [Lambda Legal](/source/Lambda_Legal); [Tyler Ford](/source/Tyler_Ford); and [Kenita Placide](/source/Kenita_Placide)[59]

### 2017

- [American Civil Liberties Union](/source/American_Civil_Liberties_Union); Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender [FDNY](/source/FDNY) firefighter; Krishna Stone of [Gay Men's Health Crisis](/source/Gay_Men's_Health_Crisis); Geng Le, Chinese LGBT rights leader and founder of [Blued](/source/Blued_(app))[60]

### 2016

- [Jazz Jennings](/source/Jazz_Jennings); [Cecilia Chung](/source/Cecilia_Chung);[61] and Subhi Nahas, refugee and cofounder of the first LGBT magazine in Syria

### 2015

- [Ian McKellen](/source/Ian_McKellen); [Derek Jacobi](/source/Derek_Jacobi); [Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera](/source/Kasha_Jacqueline_Nabagesera); and J. Christopher Neal, the first openly bisexual Grand Marshal[62]

### 2014

- [Laverne Cox](/source/Laverne_Cox); [Jonathan Groff](/source/Jonathan_Groff); and [Rea Carey](/source/Rea_Carey) of the [National Gay and Lesbian Task Force](/source/National_Gay_and_Lesbian_Task_Force)

### 2013

- [Edith Windsor](/source/Edith_Windsor), plaintiff in *[United States v. Windsor](/source/United_States_v._Windsor)*, which struck down Section 3 of the [Defense of Marriage Act](/source/Defense_of_Marriage_Act);[63] [Earl Fowlkes](/source/Earl_Fowlkes); and [Harry Belafonte](/source/Harry_Belafonte)

### 2012

- [Cyndi Lauper](/source/Cyndi_Lauper); Chris Salgardo of [Kiehl's](/source/Kiehl's); Connie Kopelov & Phyllis Siegel, New York City's first legally married same-sex couple[64]

### 2011

- [Dan Savage](/source/Dan_Savage) and Terry Miller, [It Gets Better Project](/source/It_Gets_Better_Project); Rev. Pat Bumgardner, [Metropolitan Community Church of New York](/source/Metropolitan_Community_Church_of_New_York); and the [Imperial Court](/source/Imperial_Court_System) of New York[65]

### 2010

- [Constance McMillen](/source/Constance_McMillen); [Judy Shepard](/source/Judy_Shepard); and Lt. [Dan Choi](/source/Dan_Choi)[66]

### 2009: Stonewall 40

- [Cleve Jones](/source/Cleve_Jones); [Anne Kronenberg](/source/Anne_Kronenberg); and [Dustin Lance Black](/source/Dustin_Lance_Black)

### 2008

- [Gilbert Baker,](/source/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)) creator of the Pride Flag; [Candice Cayne](/source/Candice_Cayne); New York Governor [David A. Paterson](/source/David_A._Paterson); New York Senator [Charles Schumer](/source/Charles_Schumer);[67] and NYC Mayor [Mike Bloomberg](/source/Mike_Bloomberg)[68]

## See also

- [LGBTQ culture in New York City](/source/LGBTQ_culture_in_New_York_City)
- [List of largest LGBTQ events](/source/List_of_largest_LGBTQ_events)
- [List of LGBTQ awareness days](/source/List_of_LGBT_awareness_days)
- [List of LGBTQ events](/source/List_of_LGBTQ_events)
- [List of LGBTQ people from New York City](/source/List_of_LGBTQ_people_from_New_York_City)
- [Queens Liberation Front](/source/Queens_Liberation_Front)
- [Queens Pride Parade](/source/Queens_Pride_Parade)
- [St. Pat's for All](/source/St._Pat's_for_All)
- [Timeline of LGBTQ history in New York City](/source/Timeline_of_LGBTQ_history_in_New_York_City)

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## External links

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

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