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Photos From a Month of Pride
  • Alan Taylor
  • June 27, 2019
  • 30 Photos
  • In Focus

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.

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  • A man is surrounded with balloons as he participates in the annual L.A. Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California, on June 9, 2019. #

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  • Sonya Rucker sings in the inaugural Gay Pride festival in support of the LGBTQ community in Batesville, Arkansas, on June 22, 2019. #

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  • Participants march in the 2019 Kentuckiana Pride Festival and Parade at Big Four Lawn at Waterfront Park on June 14, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky. #

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  • Onlookers watch the passing 2019 Kentuckiana Pride Festival and Parade at Big Four Lawn at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 14, 2019. #

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  • An activist of the LGBTQ movement holds a flag aloft during the 12th Mediterranean Pride of Naples in Naples, Italy, on June 22, 2019. #

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  • Activists of the LGBTQ movement march in the 12th Mediterranean Pride of Naples on June 22, 2019. #

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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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  • Thousands of Pride participants filled the streets for the 39th Annual Toronto Pride Parade in Toronto, Ontario, on June 23, 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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  • Participants march in the Nashville Pride Parade in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 22, 2019. #

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  • Revelers pose before the start of the Los Angeles Pride Parade on June 9, 2019, in West Hollywood, California. #

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  • Participants march in the L.A. Pride Parade on June 9, 2019, in West Hollywood, California. #

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  • Festivalgoers attend L.A. Pride 2019 on June 9, 2019, in West Hollywood. #

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  • A participant points at the camera during the L.A. Pride Parade in West Hollywood on June 9, 2019. #

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  • King's Cross tunnel is lit with the rainbow-flag colors to celebrate Pride Jubilee in London, England, on June 26, 2019. #

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  • Participants take part in a gay-pride parade in Santiago, Chile, on June 22, 2019. #

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  • Revelers march in the annual Gay Pride Parade on June 14, 2019, in Tel Aviv, Israel. #

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  • People participate in the annual L.A. Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California, on June 9, 2019. #

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  • A performer known as Sabin strikes a pose during the Motor City Pride Parade in Detroit, Michigan, on June 9, 2019. #

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  • People take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade on June 8, 2019, in Rome, Italy. #

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  • Participants dance as they march during a Pride event in support of LGBTQ rights in Seoul, South Korea, on June 1, 2019. #

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  • Gilson from Germany poses with an American flag as he participates in the Gay Pride parade along Paulista Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, on June 23, 2019. #

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  • A couple kisses during Avellino Pride 2019 on June 15, 2019, in Atripalda, Italy. #

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  • Transgender activists participate in the Kyiv Pride march, estimated to be the city's largest ever, on June 23, 2019, in Kiev, Ukraine. #

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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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  • Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community hold placards as they take part in the first Punjab's Pride parade in Amritsar, India, on June 23, 2019. #

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  • Activists take part in the 18th local edition of the homosexual, bisexual, and transgender visibility march in the French city of Strasbourg on June 15, 2019. #

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  • Two men share a moment during Pride Parade 2019 in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2019. #

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