This Sunday’s Pride March will be the biggest one in history, as the 46th annual LGBT celebration is expected to feature a record 32,000 marchers and more than 400 groups in the Manhattan parade. The march’s message of equality takes on added urgency this year, falling two weeks after a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando took 49 lives and wounded dozens.
Last year’s parade had 20,000 marchers and drew upward of 2.5 million spectators, Sanjivan said, as New Yorkers celebrated the legalization of gay marriage across the nation.
This year’s will likely rival that. At a vigil held outside the iconic Stonewall Inn a day after the June 12 shooting, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on people all over the United States to “come to New York for the Pride Parade” in a show of “love and inclusion.”
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Steps off Sunday at noon, rain or shine, following a moment of silence at 11:58 a.m. to remember those in the community lost to AIDS, AIDS-related complications and hate crimes. The first group usually makes it to the end of the route by 1:45 p.m. and the parade ends around 6 p.m.
Route
The march starts at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue, and heads downtown to 8th Street. From there, it goes west on 8th Street to Sixth Avenue, where it turns slightly right onto Greenwich Avenue and then a quick left onto Christopher Street. The parade ends at Christopher Street and Greenwich Street.
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