The annual LGBT Pride March, first held in 1970 to commemorate the previous year’s Stonewall Rebellion that launched the modern gay rights movement, kicks off from 36th St. & Fifth Ave. at noon on Jun. 26, and heads south toward at an endpoint in the West Village on Christopher St. The march, which often runs to six or seven hours is one of the biggest and most colorful parades in New York. This year’s grand marshals are 15-year-old Jazz Jennings, the co-founder of the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation, Subhi Nahas, a Syrian refugee who founded that nation’s first LGBT magazine, Mawaleh, and Cecilia Chung, an internationally known HIV activist who is a founding producer of the San Francisco Trans March. For complete information visit nycpride.org.
