NYC's annual LGBTQ rights march resumes in person with big turnout

An estimated 30,000 people participated in New York City's 53rd annual Pride March in late June, marking the return of the LGBTQ rights demonstration to a fully in-person format for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.Held annually since 1970, the event originally commemorated the one-year anniversary of spontaneous protests and clashes with police following a June 1969 raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn. The march was initially called Christopher Street Liberation Day in honor of the area in lower Manhattan where the uprising occurred.With a theme this year of "Unap…READ FULL ARTICLE