Following these violent and discriminatory attacks, 500 people gathered for a “Gay Power” demonstration in Washington Square Park a month later. On the morning of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewell Inn, a local gay bar in Greenwich Village, which strongly represented the city’s underground LGBTQ culture. The first NYC Pride rally took place a month after the Stonewall riots in June 1969, which launched the modern Gay Rights Movement.
During New York’s summer peak in June, NYC Pride illuminates the city with LGBTQ-related parties, events, conferences, and of course incredible and colorful parades.
NYC Pride is truly one of the biggest and best day trips in the world, after all, it says about the Big Apple.
