(29 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York City – 29 June 2025
1. Parade float with Pride parade participants marching alongside
2. People marching through street
3. Parade participant waving from car during parade
4. Wide of parade
5. Mid of people on motorcycles with rainbow flags during parade
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lance Brammer, 56, school teacher from Ohio:
"Well, actually, this is my first one (Pride Parade in New York) because I’m visiting from out of town, and where I’m from there’s not a big group of people that can come together like this. So actually, just, I felt validated by seeing everyone here and all the support. And with the climate that we have politically, it just seems like they’re trying to do away with the whole LGBTQ community, especially the trans community, and it just shows that they have got a fight ahead of them if they think they’re going to do that with all of these people here and all of the support."
7. People gathering to watch parade
8. Rainbow balloons being carried during parade
9. Float with signs reading (English): "New York City Pride"
10. People watching parade from scaffolding
11. Police patrolling area
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter McLaughlin, 34, local resident:
"So I’ve lived in New York City for, like, a few years now and I’ve never been to Pride before so I really wanted to come. I’m trans and this year feels like it’s really important to be here and be present."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco, California – 29 June 2025
13. Various of Pride parade
14. People watching parade
15. People taking part in parade
STORYLINE:
The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco.
Pride celebrations typically weave politics and protest alongside the colorful pageantry, but this year’s iterations took a decidedly more defiant stance as Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, have sought to roll back LGBTQ+ friendly policies.
The theme of the festivities in Manhattan was, appropriately, “Rise Up: Pride in Protest.”
San Francisco’s Pride theme was “Queer Joy is Resistance,” while Seattle was simply “Louder.”
Lance Brammer, a 56-year-old teacher from Ohio attending his first Pride parade in New York, said he felt “validated” as he marveled at the sheer size of the city’s celebration, the nation’s oldest and largest.
“With the climate that we have politically, it just seems like they’re trying to do away with the whole LGBTQ community, especially the trans community,” he said wearing a vivid, multicolored shirt.
“And it just shows that they’ve got a fight ahead of them if they think that they’re going to do that with all of these people here and all of the support.”
Another participant held up a sign saying, “Please don’t lose hope” in support of friends she said couldn’t attend Sunday.
Manhattan’s parade wound its way down Fifth Avenue with more than 700 participating groups greeted by huge crowds.
The rolling celebration passed the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar where a 1969 police raid triggered protests and fired up the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
The site is now a national monument. The first pride march was held in New York City in 1970 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
Meanwhile, marchers in San Francisco, host to another of the world’s largest Pride events, headed down the California city’s central Market Street to concert stages set up at the Civic Center Plaza.
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