The New York Police Division’s Intel Bureau warned that the weekend’s Pleasure March and different Pleasure occasions might be targets for violence. “LGBTQIA+ group stays a excessive precedence goal for violent extremists and malicious actors throughout the ideological spectrum, necessitating elevated vigilance in the course of the Pleasure March and the opposite Pleasure-related occasions throughout New York Metropolis,” in accordance with the NYPD.
The origin of the Pleasure March dates again to 1970, one 12 months after the Stonewall Rebellion.This 12 months marks 55 years because the rebellion and 40 years since Heritage of Pleasure grew to become the official march organizers.
Professional-Palestinian activists have disrupted pleasure parades held in Boston, Denver, and Philadelphia. A number of teams taking part in marches Sunday stated they might search to middle the victims of the warfare in Gaza, spurring pushback from supporters of Israel.
“It’s definitely a extra lively presence this 12 months by way of protest at Pleasure occasions,” stated Sandra Pérez, the manager director of NYC Pleasure. “However we had been born out of a protest.”
Amid strict vigil, the 2024 Pleasure March begins at25th Avenue and Fifth Avenue close to Madison Sq. Park in Manhattan. It then marches down Fifth Avenue, turns west onto eighth Avenue and continues on Christopher Avenue, the place it passes by the Stonewall Nationwide Monument.
It then heads north on seventh Avenue, passing by the New York Metropolis AIDS Memorial, earlier than ending at sixteenth Avenue.
This 12 months’s theme is “Replicate. Empower. Unite,” specializing in people, group leaders, advocates and allies coming collectively for “Queer liberation and pleasure.”
The origin of the Pleasure March dates again to 1970, one 12 months after the Stonewall Rebellion.This 12 months marks 55 years because the rebellion and 40 years since Heritage of Pleasure grew to become the official march organizers.
Professional-Palestinian activists have disrupted pleasure parades held in Boston, Denver, and Philadelphia. A number of teams taking part in marches Sunday stated they might search to middle the victims of the warfare in Gaza, spurring pushback from supporters of Israel.
“It’s definitely a extra lively presence this 12 months by way of protest at Pleasure occasions,” stated Sandra Pérez, the manager director of NYC Pleasure. “However we had been born out of a protest.”
Amid strict vigil, the 2024 Pleasure March begins at25th Avenue and Fifth Avenue close to Madison Sq. Park in Manhattan. It then marches down Fifth Avenue, turns west onto eighth Avenue and continues on Christopher Avenue, the place it passes by the Stonewall Nationwide Monument.
It then heads north on seventh Avenue, passing by the New York Metropolis AIDS Memorial, earlier than ending at sixteenth Avenue.
This 12 months’s theme is “Replicate. Empower. Unite,” specializing in people, group leaders, advocates and allies coming collectively for “Queer liberation and pleasure.”
