“We have been marginalized for many years - for centuries. “I like that everyone’s wearing a mask. I think that we need to unite our voices with the Black Lives Matter movement, as a queer person,” Rincon said. Rincon, who is a nonbinary person - someone who does not identify completely with traditional notions of male or female - held a rainbow handkerchief and wore an N95 mask.
Ilon Rincon came from a COVID-19 testing site in Queens, after volunteering there, to join the march in Manhattan.
The next year, the march in which Landman and thousands of others partook was marked by some cops turning their backs in disdain on participants, and several onlookers sought to disrupt the parade. But that night, the patrons fought back, hurling bricks and fists and trash cans at the cops. What happened at Stonewall on June 28, 1969, was typical for the era: the NYPD raided a gay bar and began to arrest patrons. “It was a demonstration against the police abuse and harassment that was going on in the 1960s in New York City,” he said. He held a sign, standing near the beginning of the march: “Same Struggle - Same Fight.” “The march today is more similar to what we had 50 years ago when we marched from Christopher Street up to Central Park on Sixth Avenue - no floats, no bands, no balloons,” said Rick Landman, 68, a lawyer who lives in Tribeca who participated in the first such anniversary march, in 1970. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.