Local and national politicians took part in Pride events, including presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who marched with a security detail at the New York event, taking breaks to shake hands with onlookers.Ĭlinton also marched in the New York Pride Parade in 20. On Friday, President Obama designated a new national monument at the site of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City, where gay men and women demonstrated against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Today's events also coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage, a date that was capitalized upon by advertisers, and celebrated on social media. Heavily armed police officers walk along the street near the parade route of the New York City Pride Parade, June 26, 2016, in New York City.
