For the first time in it’s 50 year incarnation, NYC has given the chop to NY Pride due to that bitch Miss Rona.
Heritage of Pride, the organization that runs the march, made the officia announcement this morning, shortly after New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced the cancellation of permits for all large events for the month of June.
“This probably will not surprise you,” De Blasio said at a coronavirus briefing before announcing the cancellation of June’s Celebrate Israel, Puerto Rican Day and LGBTQ pride parades. The mayor promised these events would go on in some format “when it’s the right time.”
“This year is the 50th anniversary of the pride parade, and it’s a very, very big deal,” De Blasio said in Monday’s briefing. “That march is such an important part of life in this city, but this year in particular it was going to be something that was a historic moment.”
Since the pride march has been chopped this year, Heritage of Pride endorsed an effort led by InterPride, an international organization comprised of local, regional and national pride planning organizations, to hold a 24-hour virtual “Global Pride” event on June 27, to be broadcast around the world.
I was really looking forward to attending Queens Pride and NY Pride this year, since I missed World Pride last year (I was living in LA at the time), and I’m pissed that I won’t be going this year. But we need to be smart and air on the right side of caution, so in order to keep the amount of Miss Rona cases down, this is the smart thing to do.
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