We’re in the last few days of June—a month celebrated around the world as LGBTQ Pride month—commemorated with colorful parades, vocal protests, public art, and events. The events are a time for celebration, and for recognizing accomplishments and progress that has been made as a community, cheered on by supporters, neighbors, and advocates. Many of the month’s events work to continue to raise awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues; to promote equality; and to eliminate discrimination. On the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, a look at Pride 2019 parades and events from around the world.
Photos From a Month of Pride
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A National Park Service ranger places rainbow flags along fencing around Christopher Park in New York's Greenwich Village on June 14, 2019. June is Pride Month, celebrated each year to mark the 1969 Stonewall rebellion, a series of violent confrontations between the gay community and police, that occurred near Christopher Park at a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn. #
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From left: Jesus Tavarez and Juan De La O, both from the Bronx, kiss on the steps that are covered in rainbow colors for Pride Month at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, on Roosevelt Island in New York City on June 14, 2019. #
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his shirt soaked after members of the crowd squirted him with water guns, joins supporters of Toronto's LGBTQ community as they march in one of North America's largest Pride parades, in Toronto, Ontario, on June 23, 2019. #
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The Boston Red Sox rainbow logo is displayed in the dirt on the pitcher's mound in recognition of Pride Night before a game against the Texas Rangers on June 11, 2019, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. #
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A man dances during a gay-pride parade in Bucharest, Romania, on June 22, 2019. People taking part in the parade in the Romanian capital demanded more rights and acceptance for same-sex couples and celebrated 18 years since homosexuality was decriminalized. #
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