Participants highlight issues of the gay, lesbian and transgender community in London. Organisers said they did not have final numbers on turnout but that 32,000 marchers and more than 420 groups had been expected. Parents came with young children, tourists from overseas and exhibitionists indulged in show-stopping costumes and glittery cat suits complete with stilettos. Spectators donned rainbow feather boas and waved rainbow flags. Gays Against Guns, calls for gun controlĪlong the route, the newly created Gays Against Guns (GAG) pressure group staged a die-in, lying down on the hot road in a heap.ĭespite sombre remembrance, the parade was also a giant street party with participants dancing to thumping music, a giant arc of balloons and street vendors doing a brisk trade in all things rainbow. Scouts carried 49 flags with rainbow stripes to honor the victims, while another group dressed head-to-toe in white and wore veils, held the names and photographs of the Orlando victims. And I have to say the response has been amazing." We will stand up to those who would try to undermine our values. "We have extraordinary NYPD presence to make sure that this will not only be the biggest but the safest parade we've ever had," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Sunday's events, along with marches in Chicago and Seattle, were marked by tributes to the 49 people killed at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12. Participants call for equality in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Just days before the parade, President Barack Obama designated the country's first LGBT national monument at the city's Stonewall Inn, where protests erupted in 1969 following a police crackdown. New York, which prides itself on being one of the most diverse cities on the planet, is the birthplace of the US gay rights movement. New York, the birthplace of the US gay rights movement Let's keep marching until they don't," tweeted Mrs Clinton, joining a slew of elected state and city Democrats who took part in the march exactly one year after the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage across the country. "LGBT Americans still face too many barriers. In San Francisco, the crowd cheered and electronic music blared from floats, a group carried placards with photos of the Florida victims, and men in leather bondage walked the route under bright sunshine. Hundreds of thousands of people from New York to San Francisco marched on Sunday to celebrate gay pride, honour those killed in the Florida nightclub massacre, and promote tolerance.ĭemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, buoyed by a double digit poll lead over Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, joined the tail end of the parade in New York.