New York City will celebrate Gay Pride Week from June 20-28, 2009.
The Gay Pride March NYC Pride March is an annual March more commonly referred to as the Parade in New York City, traversing southward down Fifth Avenue and ending at Greenwich Village.
The original purpose of this parade was to commemorate the riots at a popular gay and lesbian bar called the Stonewall Inn that became the epicenter for violent protests against the unlawful treatment that gays and lesbians suffered at the hands of the New York City police department.
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