5 Biggest Gay Events in the United States

2. New York City Pride March 2016

Attendance: 2,500,000

One of the largest annual Pride marches in the world, NYC Pride March attracts tens of thousands of participants and millions of spectators every June  since 1970. The 2016 version commemorated the 47^th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots and had a record turnout of an estimated 2.5 million people. The New York City Pride March is consistently considered the largest Pride parade in the US, with numbers upwards of 2 million since 2015. The 2016 event also boasted a surprise appearance by democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Around 30,000 people marched in the parade itself, with almost 2 million spectators joining them. This was a large jump from the previous year’s turnout of 1.6 million. The large turnout could be due to it being the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

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