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There were more than 450 unique marching contingents, representing a variety of nonprofits, community organizations, corporate partners, small businesses, political candidates and activists. Last year was one of the largest NYC Pride Parades in history, according to the organization. We are standing defiantly - defiantly different and defiantly as one.” “The corresponding creative showcases a wide selection of defiantly different community members -from performance artists to mental health advocates. Bear Pride Flag T-Shirt Bear Gay Color Shirt Men's Bear Tee Bear Pride Parade 2019 Tee Shirt Poster. “This year’s theme is about showing our power, squaring our shoulders in the face of adversity, and continuing to sculpt that magnetic bond within the LGBTQ+ community and our allies,” said David Studinski, NYC Pride Co-Chair, in a statement. 2018 Nyc Gay Pride Parade Route MaMaby Aviv This year’s Pride march through Lower Manhattan takes place just south of the Fifth Avenue bridge over Greenwich Village, near the site of the June 1969 protest in London during which protests for LGBTQ+ rights were launched. Pride Parade NYC 2018 has the theme “Defiantly Different.” It’s meant to speak to the broadness of the LGBTQ community. In that time, according to the organization, the NYC Pride Parade purpose has “broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to illness, violence and neglect.” NYC Pride has evolved over the years, and this year is the 49th iteration of the historic event.