New York celebrates his day of LGTBI + pride this Sunday, June 27, 2021, with an eminently official event virtual, but thousands of people took to the streets to claim the rights of this community in an alternative march and also have fun, taking advantage of the recent end of the restrictions against the COVID-19.
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The Big Apple, which in 2019 when it hosted the World Pride hosted the largest parade in the world, with 150 thousand participants and four million visitors, opted again for prudence in the context of the pandemic by offering a program broadcast over the internet with performances, interviews and informative content.
A small group of 200 representatives of groups that seek progress in the gay rights, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals paraded through Lower Manhattan at noon to a cheering crowd with festive cheer and waving rainbow flags, but in any case far from the usual crowds in other years.
Claim day
However, in the afternoon many New Yorkers decided to go to the Queer Liberation March created three years ago by Reclaim Pride, a coalition of activist groups that seeks to recover the “spirit” of the protest movement born after the 1969 riots in the iconic bar gay Stonewall Inn del Greenwich Village.
One of its organizers, Blake Roberts, said in the central Bryant Park, the starting point, that up to 50 thousand people were expected at the march and highlighted its impact: “We have gained attention in the PrideAll these people seek to celebrate but also to feel safe, with less police and without corporations ”.
Among colored flags, posters, cardboard figures and music was the Ecuadorian Jessica Guamán, who with her organization Hope For TGNC works to give “legal advice” and help to transsexual and migrant women. LGTB, especially in Central America, when “they leave detention centers,” he explained.
Supporting this group and with a sign proclaiming the pride “Two spirits” -concept used by indigenous cultures-, a person who identified himself as Fabi pointed out that he was attending this event for the first time to also recognize “the effort of our ancestors for liberation.”
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Reopening with pride
New York, which has one of the levels of vaccination against him coronavirus higher than EE.UU., withdrew the restrictions against contagions at the beginning of June and this weekend experienced a return to normalcy much desired by its citizens, who populate the terraces of restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
The starting gun of the Pride It was a surprise performance by pop diva Madonna last Thursday at a well-known nightclub in the Meatpacking District, which was filled to the top with fans to such an extent that hundreds of people were left waiting at the doors, according to local media reports.
“We are here to celebrate our brothers and sisters LGBTQ+, support some incredible Queer initiatives, declare open the weekend of pride in NY and the return of the city of New York ”, the singer dropped on her social networks that same afternoon, causing a sensation.
A reduced event
The official organizer of the city, Heritage of Pride, ruled out for the second consecutive year the traditional great parade with floats and instead promoted a “sample” of what the march was, according to its representatives, relying on a hundred businesses to offer “Pop-ups” (ephemeral experiences) of celebration.
The motto has been “The fight continues” and the ambassadors, in front of the celebrities chosen in previous years, have been activists such as Ceyenne Doroshow, who heads GLITS, an NGO that supports trans black people, or Wilson Cruz, the first gay actor to he played a homosexual character in a series (“My So Called Life”).
Despite everything, this event sponsored by the authorities and sponsored by large corporations has once again been the subject of controversy for its decision to reject the participation of members LGTBI + uniformed members of the Police from next year until 2025, as a result of the national debate on police brutality.
For its part, the New York Gay Police Action League (GOAL) has expressed its disappointment that officers are excluded from the official celebration and has vindicated its almost 40 years of work to improve inclusion in the Body and community relations.
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