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| New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – live | New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – live |
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| Stephanie’s Child, a drag queen trio seen on The Voice, is singing an impressive three-part version of the national anthem as events kick off in New York. They’re accompanied by the Talent Unlimited high school theater department. | |
| Joe Biden has sparked a new controversy with comments at a gay rights fundraiser in Seattle. Seeking to highlight progress, he reportedly said that five years ago, if people “made fun of a gay waiter” at a meeting, it would have been tolerated. The idea that such comments were acceptable in 2014 prompted calls of “not in Seattle!”, the Daily Beast noted. | |
| Biden said a businessman making that remark today “would not be invited back”. | |
| My colleague Joanna Walters has a closer look at today’s dueling marches in New York, amid what is likely to be the city’s biggest LGBTQ celebration in history. Supporters of Reclaim Pride, behind a march dubbed the inaugural Queer Liberation March, say the larger event “has become a bloated, over-policed circuit party, stuffed with 150 corporate floats. This does not represent the ‘spirit of Stonewall’ on this 50th anniversary year.” | My colleague Joanna Walters has a closer look at today’s dueling marches in New York, amid what is likely to be the city’s biggest LGBTQ celebration in history. Supporters of Reclaim Pride, behind a march dubbed the inaugural Queer Liberation March, say the larger event “has become a bloated, over-policed circuit party, stuffed with 150 corporate floats. This does not represent the ‘spirit of Stonewall’ on this 50th anniversary year.” |
| New York City: dueling Pride marches to mark Stonewall's 50th anniversary | New York City: dueling Pride marches to mark Stonewall's 50th anniversary |
| Charles Kaiser, author of The Gay Metropolis and a Guardian contributor, says the tension between the events is healthy. It “has existed in the movement from the very beginning … between a desire to be as fully integrated into the majority of society as possible, and the desire to see the movement as a way to celebrate how different we are.” More on that in Victoria Bekiempis’s news story: | Charles Kaiser, author of The Gay Metropolis and a Guardian contributor, says the tension between the events is healthy. It “has existed in the movement from the very beginning … between a desire to be as fully integrated into the majority of society as possible, and the desire to see the movement as a way to celebrate how different we are.” More on that in Victoria Bekiempis’s news story: |
| New York leads Pride parade cavalcade with huge LGBTQ celebration | New York leads Pride parade cavalcade with huge LGBTQ celebration |
| New York’s Heritage Pride parade is due to begin at noon local time. In the meantime, treat yourself to some remarkable photography of LGBTQ pioneers, five decades after Stonewall. | New York’s Heritage Pride parade is due to begin at noon local time. In the meantime, treat yourself to some remarkable photography of LGBTQ pioneers, five decades after Stonewall. |
| Charles Kaiser reviews the “superb” Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era for the Guardian: “If you’re curious about what that first march looked like in 1970, or the names and faces of the earliest activists who got us from there to here, there is no better place to start.” | Charles Kaiser reviews the “superb” Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era for the Guardian: “If you’re curious about what that first march looked like in 1970, or the names and faces of the earliest activists who got us from there to here, there is no better place to start.” |
| Love and Resistance review: priceless pictures of LGBTQ pioneers | Love and Resistance review: priceless pictures of LGBTQ pioneers |
| Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of today’s Pride events, centered in New York 50 years after the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, which led to the modern gay rights movement. | Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of today’s Pride events, centered in New York 50 years after the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, which led to the modern gay rights movement. |
| This year, New York is host to WorldPride, marking the first time the event has been held in the US. Organizers have said they expect as many as 4 million people to flock to the city. | This year, New York is host to WorldPride, marking the first time the event has been held in the US. Organizers have said they expect as many as 4 million people to flock to the city. |
| New York will see two parades today. The Heritage Pride event will represent nearly 700 organizations – ranging from the cast of the TV show Pose to big corporations – and is expected to draw 150,000 marchers. Hundreds of thousands more are likely to celebrate alongside them as they loop through Manhattan, passing the Stonewall Inn on the way. | New York will see two parades today. The Heritage Pride event will represent nearly 700 organizations – ranging from the cast of the TV show Pose to big corporations – and is expected to draw 150,000 marchers. Hundreds of thousands more are likely to celebrate alongside them as they loop through Manhattan, passing the Stonewall Inn on the way. |
| A separate parade, meanwhile, will shift the focus from floats to activism. Known alternatively as Reclaim Pride or the first Queer Liberation March, the event will begin at the Stonewall and end in Central Park. “It’s a clash of values. What happened at Stonewall in 1969 changed my life and we’re going to take that spirit into this new century. There’ll be no sponsors, no uniformed police, no floats,” the organizer Bill Dobbs told the Guardian’s Joanna Walters. | A separate parade, meanwhile, will shift the focus from floats to activism. Known alternatively as Reclaim Pride or the first Queer Liberation March, the event will begin at the Stonewall and end in Central Park. “It’s a clash of values. What happened at Stonewall in 1969 changed my life and we’re going to take that spirit into this new century. There’ll be no sponsors, no uniformed police, no floats,” the organizer Bill Dobbs told the Guardian’s Joanna Walters. |
| Cities around the US and the world are joining New York in celebration this weekend, with events in San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle and stretching across the world from Mexico to Europe to India. | Cities around the US and the world are joining New York in celebration this weekend, with events in San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle and stretching across the world from Mexico to Europe to India. |