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The
Gay Pride March is an annual march
more commonly referred to as the
Pride Parade in New York City,
traversing southward down Fifth
Avenue and ending at Greenwich
Village. The March passes by the
site of the Stonewall Inn on
Christopher Street, location of the
1969 police raid which launched the
modern Gay Rights Movement. The
first NYC Gay Pride March was held
in 1970 and is the oldest gay pride
parade. The March has been and will
continued to be called a March not a
Parade until the organizers believe
there is full equality for the LGBTQ
community.
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The
March, PrideFest (the festival) and
the Dance on the Pier are the main
events of Pride Week in New York
City Gay Pride Week. Since 1984,
Heritage of Pride (HOP) has been the
producer and organizer of Pride
Events in New York City. The
parade's organizer, Heritage of
Pride (HOP), is a wholly
volunteer-managed, non-partisan,
tax-exempt, non-profit organization
that organizes lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
pride events in New York City to
commemorate the Stonewall riots. HOP
is one of the few LGBT organizations
that is run at the grass-roots
level. HOP welcomes the
participation of all, regardless of
age, creed, gender, gender
identification, HIV status, national
origin, physical, mental or
developmental ability, race, or
religion.Fifth Avenue is a major
thoroughfare in the centre of the
borough of Manhattan in New York
City, USA. The section of Fifth
Avenue that crosses Midtown
Manhattan, especially that between
49th Street and 60th Street, is
lined with prestigious shops and is
consistently ranked among the most
expensive shopping streets in the
world. The "most expensive street in
the world" moniker changes depending
on currency fluctuations and local
economic conditions from year to
year. For several years starting in
the mid-1990s, the shopping district
between 49th and 57th Streets was
ranked as having the world's most
expensive retail spaces on a cost
per square foot basis. In 2008,
Forbes magazine ranked Fifth Avenue
as being the most expensive street
in the world. Some of the most
coveted real estate on Fifth Avenue
are the Penthouses perched atop the
buildings.
Fifth
Avenue is the traditional route for
many celebratory parades in New York
City; thus, it is closed to traffic
on numerous Sundays in warm weather.
The longest running parade is the
annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Parades held are distinct from the
ticker-tape parades held on the
"Canyon of Heroes" on lower
Broadway, and the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade held on
Broadway from the Upper West Side
downtown to Herald Square.
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