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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center's float was sponsored by the Broadway musical "Shrek," whose ogres-need-love-too message was apparently a good fit.įlavia Rando marched with the Gay Liberation Front, which began in 1969 after the Stonewall uprising. This year's march featured the usual mix of seasoned activists, dazzling drag performers and floats blasting disco beats.Ī faux Liza Minnelli in a slinky dress and spiky wig lip-synched "New York, New York" atop the Stonewall Inn float. "If we have an end to the stalemate in Albany I would think that it would be passed shortly after," he said, referring to the state capital. David Paterson said he remains hopeful that the state Senate will pass a same-sex marriage bill _ if it can resolve the partisan stalemate that has paralyzed it. "Hopes and dreams and expectations have been raised, and there is nothing worse than to for people to have their hopes die out, to have the rug pulled out from under them," said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City's most prominent openly gay elected official. The celebration was tempered by the knowledge that other states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa, have legalized same-sex marriage before New York.
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The several days of disturbances that followed the uprising became one of the defining moments of the gay rights movement. The annual march down Fifth Avenue commemorated the Stonewall rebellion of 40 years ago, when patrons at a gay bar resisted the police.
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Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage.