Emotional Pride March In New York Follows Last Year's Online-Only Event

Emotional Pride March In New York Follows Last Year's Online-Only Event

Participants in the annual New York City Pride March in New York City on June 27, 2021.

Photo by Andrew Schwartz/TNS

NEW YORK — New York City's Pride March returned on Sunday, a year after the coronavirus outbreak forced the celebration to go online-only for the first time in its history. This year's event was mostly virtual and so more modest than pre-pandemic mega-marches — but still drew thousands of attendees to celebrate the LGBTQ community, including a woman who proposed to her girlfriend in the middle of the emotional festivities. Jaimie Lord, a gay rights activist from Virginia Beach, Virginia, dropped down on one knee about 12:30 p.m. along the parade route outside the historic Stonewall Inn to propose t...

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