From the archives, the MUUS Collection looks back on iconic images from NYC Pride throughout the decades. It was the largest parade of any kind in the city’s history. The twelve-hour parade included 150,000 pre-registered participants among 695 groups. Origins Early on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people rioted, following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan. Most recently, in 2019, an estimated four million attended the parade as part of Stonewall 50-WorldPride NYC. It is estimated that the first Pride Day in 1970 saw a crowd of about 5,000 people and extended for about 15 city blocks. McDarrah photographed nearly every NYC Pride Day from the 1970s through the 1990s. ![]() McDarrah was not only present to capture the original uprising at Stonewall, but also had the foresight to recognize that the earliest Pride Day celebrations would be historic moments in their own right. ![]() The first NYC pride march, then known as “Gay Liberation Day,” was held on Jto commemorate the Stonewall uprising the year before, which helped spark the modern LGBTQ rights movement. The MUUS Collection celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the NYC Pride March.
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