The protest occurred at the same time as organizers of the regular Pride march streamed an online production of their event celebrating the city’s LGBTQ community. Hosts of the live-streamed event appeared from inside the Stonewall Inn in the Village, where the historic gay-rights riots started 51 years ago to the day.Įvent organizers boasted on Twitter that they didn’t have a permit for the march. Participants in the march - which was organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition and called the Queer Liberation March - gathered in Foley Square and began walking to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village in the early afternoon. The crowd protested under Black Lives Matter and other banners while waving rainbow flags. New York City’s annual Pride parade was held virtually Sunday because of the coronavirus - but that didn’t prevent hundreds of people from packing sections of Manhattan for a pro-LGBTQ, anti-police-brutality march.
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