Which just goes to show what the real point of things like “Pride Month” is. Just a gay version of May Day.
Via AP:
Chanting slogans of defiance, thousands of marchers took to the streets of New York on Sunday to protest commercialization of the city’s official Pride parade attended by millions of people a few blocks away.
The alternative Queer Liberation March in downtown Manhattan was designed to be a return to “a people’s political march” without corporate sponsorship and police barricades, organizers said.
The annual Pride march in New York has lost its radical roots and become commercialized with parade floats paid for by banks and beverage companies, said those at the alternative march dubbed Protest Pride.
Mobile communications company T-Mobile, Mastercard Inc and banking company HSBC were among the NYC Pride corporate sponsors.
“It’s a march, not a parade, to commemorate the Stonewall riots,” Maddy Felecite told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the start of the alternative march.
“I prefer to walk in a pride march rather than a parade, as it’s more linked to the grassroots movement.”
Pride marches around the world have their roots in the events of June 1969, when patrons of Stonewall, a New York gay bar, stood up to police harassment and triggered days of rioting.