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Rainbow of Supporters Color Streets of New York City Sunday for Gay Pride Parade
From New York to The Netherlands, from Connecticut to Ireland and beyond, gay pride supporters waved their rainbow flags high Sunday to celebrate Gay Pride Day 2014.
New York City Pride Week ended on a high note Sunday as over one million gay pride supporters colored the streets of New York City for the 2014 Gay Pride Parade.
Groups across the globe held events during the month of June to bring to light the issues the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered community faces and to celebrate how far they've come. Master Card encouraged participants in the Gay Pride Parade to Tweet using the hashtag #AcceptanceMatters to share their photos with the world.
In Ireland, the Dublin Pride Run 5K race was held by the LGBT-friendly Dublin Front Runners. In the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Canal Parade included gay pride supporters floating boats down the canal, rainbow colors in full bloom.
Locally, Mosaic of Westchester, a group whose mission is for the full integration of LGBTQ Jews into Westchester Jewish life, marched for the first time in Sunday's parade.
Members of the New York Police Department and the Gay Officers Action League celebrated Sunday as well. Also included in the march was Dolores Nettles, the mother of 21-year-old Islan Nettles, a transgender woman who died in after being beaten to death in Harlem last year.
The VCS Gay Pride celebrations were held in Nyack earlier this month. Over 150 local non-profit agencies, community organizations, faith communities, municipalities and elected officials from across Rockland County and beyond, co-sponsored VCS Gay Pride Rockland.
Southwest Connecticut's PFLAG group marched in the parade with supporters from the Norwalk Triangle Community Center cheering them on from the sidelines. Other events were held in Connecticut during the month of June including a Gay Pride Parade and block party at City Lights in Bridgeport and Pride in the Park, a festival held in Norwalk.
NYC Pride Week was celebrated June 21st-29th this year. The annual week-long series of events is produced by Heritage of Pride, a volunteer-run not-for-profit corporation that organizes Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Pride events in New York City. This year marked the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969 when demonstrators protested, some violently, an early morning police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.
