ABCNews.go.com
All over the world, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and transsexuals let their true colors show this past weekend to commemorate clashes between gay people and U.S. police in New York City’s Christopher Street in June 1969. The violent conflicts at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York, marked the first time that sexual minorities had acted in a large unity against police force. The event is key in the history of the Gay Liberation Movement and is celebrated annually on the streets.
Just days after the New York State Assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, there was something to celebrate for gay pride revelers at the march in New York City.
Marseille’s gay and lesbian pride parade celebrated themes of freedom to love, equality of rights and fraternity without homophobia, using the French Republic motto.