The event is considered the nation's largest Caribbean cultural festival attracting more than a million jubilant participants ...

Peter McLaughlin said he’s lived in New York for years but had never attended the Pride parade. The 34-year-old Brooklyn resident said he felt compelled this year as a transgender man.

The first pride march was held in New York City in 1970 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising, a riot that began with a police raid on a Manhattan gay bar. Nick ...

People wait for the start of the NYC Pride Parade in New York, Sunday, June 30, 2019. (Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) The Heritage of Pride march the N.Y.C. Pride Parade in New York on June 30, 2019.

And while out-and-proud festivals and events take place around the globe all month, in New York City, the whole scene culminates with the 53rd annual NYC Pride March, this year on Sunday, June 25.

New York Police Department officers at the 2019 Pride parade, the city’s biggest Pride parade ever. After protests last summer, things changed. Lucas Jackson/Reuters ...

She said the diversity of New York City Pride is empowering because of the visibility it offers. “There’s a sense of anything possible in New York, there’s so many identities here,” she said.