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Agence France-Presse

Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags and hoisting political banners marched and danced on the streets of New York on Sunday in the latest festive edition of the Gay Pride parade that began in Central Park in 1970.
On foot, on roller skates, on motorbikes or riding on some 100 spectacularly colourful floats, participants moved slowly on a hot, sunny day along the two-mile (3km) parade route from historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, over to Fifth Avenue, then up to 29th Street.
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The route was altered this year in anticipation of the celebrations planned for next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots between gay nightclub patrons and police that, in 1969, gave birth to the US movement for gay rights.

Many of Sunday’s marchers were scantily dressed, like one clad only in a bikini with a rainbow-coloured bottom and a pink top.
Another tanned and well-toned man on roller skates wearing a skimpy red trikini that amply displayed his sculpted abdominal muscles somehow managed to catch photographers’ attention. He carried a sign that simply said “Love.”
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The theme of this year’s parade was “Defiantly Different,” a message inspired in reaction to President Donald Trump’s treatment of the LGBTQ community, organisers said.

For the second straight year, many marchers carried anti-Trump banners and signs, criticising policies seen as anti-gay.

HAPPY PRIDE NYC!! ️‍ pic.twitter.com/FGOGnKz9Fi
— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) June 24, 2018

For flamboyant Democratic New York Council member Corey Johnson, who at 36 is openly gay and is the city’s first legislative leader with HIV, the slogan reflects New York’s diversity: It has the nation’s largest LGBTQ community, a population more than 40 per cent foreign-born and where “more than 200 languages are spoken” just in the borough of Queens.
“As Lady Gaga says, ‘I was born this way,’” he told the local ABC subsidiary, before returning to the parade, dancing and jumping with a rainbow banner streaming from his hand.
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In a heavily Democratic city where gay voters matter, Johnson was not the only politician taking part: Also marching were Mayor Bill de Blasio, US Senator Chuck Schumer and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who walked behind a big banner reading “New York State of Love.” Gubernatorial candidate and Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon also marched down 7th Avenue.

The parade’s grand marshal this year was tennis legend Billie Jean King, 74, a lesbian and an outspoken defender of gender equality and LGBTQ rights, who rode in a carriage under a big, rainbow-coloured parasol.

BILLIE JEAN KING pic.twitter.com/86wGqpNhWF
— toni misses idkhow (@chalametweekes) June 24, 2018

The atmosphere in this year’s parade was much lighter than last year, when many marchers paid sombre tribute to the 49 people killed in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.


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Thousands march and dance in New York's Gay Pride parade

Tens of thousands of people waving rainbow flags and hoisting political banners marched and danced on the streets of New York on Sunday in the latest festive edition of the Gay Pride parade. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 24: Revellers watch the annual Pride Parade on June 24, 2018 in New York City. The first gay pride parade in the U.S. was held in Central Park on June 28, 1970. Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Participants and Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon make their way down 7th Avenue during the 2018 New York City Pride Parade on June 24, 2018 as participants make their way down 7th Avenue in New York. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 24: Revellers take part in the annual Pride Parade on June 24, 2018 in New York City. The first gay pride parade in the U.S. was held in Central Park on June 28, 1970. Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Gay Pride parade lights up Tel Aviv, attracting more than 250,000 revellers

Revellers take part in a gay pride parade in Tel Aviv. Photo: Reuters

(180608) -- TEL AVIV, June 8, 2018 (Xinhua) -- People participate in the pride parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 8, 2018. (Xinhua/JINI/Gideon Marrkowicz)

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“I am blessed with the support of my family, I feel I can take a step further to fight for equality for all of us,” says Angus Leung, a gay senior immigration officer who filed a judicial review against the government over civil servants benefits and tax payments. Photo: Edward Wong

Lesbian QT, who has launched a legal bid to challenge the Immigration Department's refusal to grant dependent visa to homosexual couples, poses for a picture at Vidler & Co. Solicitors in Wan Chai. 17MAR16 SCMP/ Dickson Lee

Senior immigration officer Angus Leung Chun-kwong (left) holds hand with his partner Scott Adams (right) as they leave the High Court in Admiralty. Leung has lodged a judicial challenge after his same-sex partner was refused spousal benefits. 12DEC17 SCMP / Winson Wong

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A rainbow flag, a symbol of the LGBT community, flutters against the skyline of the central business district in Hong Kong, on November 6, 2015. Protesters marched in the city’s annual gay pride parade on the day to call for equality and same-sex marriage. Photo: AFP

--COMBO Photo-- Baroness Brenda Hale (left), 73, current president of the UKs Supreme Court; and Beverley McLachlin (right), 74, was the first female chief justice of any top court in the British Commonwealth. She retired from the position last December 2017.

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