![]() The 2019 march has been organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition because of what it sees as the over-corporatization of the main event and the presence of police both marching and patrolling at it the cops’ presence is seen as problematic by the Reclaim Pride Coalition because of the police's past homophobia. It is a replication of the route taken by the marchers of the first Pride march, then known as the Christopher Street Day Liberation March, in 1970. that day, on Seventh Avenue, just below Christopher Street-so within sight of the Stonewall-before heading across West 10th Street to Sixth Avenue, and then an epic urban march north to Central Park, entering it at 59th Street and Sixth Avenue before a planned rally on the Great Lawn. The breakaway Queer Liberation March, organized by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, begins earlier, at 9:30 a.m. Organizers expect New York City to be bursting at the seams with LGBT people from all over the world. Four million people are expected to attend-this year not only marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, but it is also World Pride.
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