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This year, on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, it will face a competing march. The New York City Pride march, which annually commemorates the Stonewall uprising, is believed to be the largest Pride celebration in the world. Twenty-one people were arrested and many were injured in the riots against police brutality that ensued over the coming days. The modern LGBTQ rights movement was famously born in June 1969 when patrons of New York’s Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, fought back against a NYPD raid. The flier that announced the first Pride march in New York, 1970's Christopher Street Liberation Day March, read: “Gay Liberation is for the homosexual who stands up and fights back.” Pride has not always been a celebration - far from it. They’re busy aren’t they? Gosh, don’t they love to dance and party? I used to sit there and watch it and go, where.
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The New York Pride parade, which is significantly larger than Philadelphia’s, has been televised live by New York’s ABC affiliate since 2017 and nominated for Emmy awards.In Nanette, the standup show by Hannah Gadsby, the comedian tells the audience that her first introduction to gay people was seeing the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on TV, recounting jokingly: “Oh, there they are - my people. “Never before has this community and this history been chronicled by the international news organizations, museums, and exhibitions, and then told through mass media of television, radio, print, online digital to the world,” he said. Visit Philly’s Guaracino believes the addition of television to the coverage of the parade and the Stonewall anniversary is a meaningful step in the advancement of LGBTQ rights. The parade returned in 1988, somewhat spontaneously, and the following year Philly Pride Presents was formed to organize the event annually. Since then it has grown in fits and starts. Philadelphia followed with a parade in 1972. The first Pride Parade was in New York in 1970, when gay activists improvised a march to mark the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. “We hope that if we show we can put this together in a great broadcast that takes the fun and celebration to a tremendous audience, that in coming years we’ll be able to work with parade organizers to improve our broadcast of it, improve the timing of the parade,” said Morris. Unlike more choreographed events like the Thanksgiving Parade where the action is timed for the needs of the broadcast, 6ABCs plan is to capture whatever it can on camera and edit it down later. The parade will not be altered to accommodate television. It is expected to last about three hours. on 13th street in the so-called Gayborhood of Washington Square West, and ends with a ticketed festival (tickets are $15) at Penn’s Landing on the Delaware River. LGBT tourism is big business and an economic driver.” More than 4.5 million people come to New York to be part of the Stonewall anniversary. “It has big value,” said Visit Philly present Jeff Guaracino.
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The television special is possible, in part, because of funding from Visit Philly, the city’s tourism marketing organization, which is using a portion of its summer advertising budget to back the TV production because it sees the parade as a major tourist attraction. Channel 6 will shoot from the judging area, then broadcast an edited version three weeks later on June 30, paired with a special program about Stonewall.
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