Pride Parade draws thousands to downtown Spokane
Skies were grey but the streets of downtown were full of color during Saturday's Pride Parade.
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Skies were grey but the streets of downtown were full of color during Saturday's Pride Parade.
June is Pride Month and Spokane will celebrate with its annual Pride parade through downtown on Saturday.
We may never know who threw the first brick outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in the wee hours of June 28, 1969.
Hundreds of people defied a Turkish government ban to take part in a Pride Parade in Istanbul on Sunday before being dispersed by police.
There were more than 48,000 marchers and 100 floats. But amid the sea of flags and festivities, one moment stood out Sunday at the New York City Pride parade this year:
Despite the rain, Mother Nature couldn't drown out the support at Spokane's 27th Pride celebration. Thousands flocked to downtown to support the city's LGBTQ community and watched as countless local business and advocacy groups walked in Saturday's parade.
Tear gas and rubber pellets marred Pride rallies in Istanbul Sunday as LGBTQ supporters took to the streets in defiance of a parade ban.
At Pride celebrations across the United States on Sunday, a protest movement that aims to draw attention to the struggles of marginalized people within the LGBTQ community made itself heard.
When Brooke Guinan joined the New York City Fire Department in 2008 she publicly presented herself as a man. She had no idea that on Sunday she'd be one of the NYC Pride Parade's grand marshals while identifying as a transgender woman.