50 Pictures of New York City Pride Throughout the Decades

NYC Pride has been going on since 1970!

New York City is the largest Pride parade in North America, and has been going on since 1970, just one year after Stonewall.

Throughout the decades the LGBTQ+ community and our allies have come together in New York City every summer to show how strong, beautiful, and numorous we are and to march for our rights.

Here are 50 pictures from the 70's to 2000, showing off what NYC Pride has looked like through the years.

Third Annual Lesbian Pride Parade in 1995

Marchers with signs in 1974

Photo from 1982

Gay Pride 1984

Punk at Pride 1990

Pride in 1986

Pride in 1986

Pride in 1982

Gay Pride in 1982

Pride in 1984

Pride in 1983

Quentin Crisp at Pride 1982

Pride in 1975

Pride in 1975

Pride in 1982

Pride in 1983

Pride in 1989

Pride in 1989

Pride in 1989

Pride in 1971

Pride in 1971

Pride in 1971

Pride in 1994

Pride in 1979

Coco Lachine's float in Pride 1991

Pride in 1985

Pride in 1990

Pride in 1999

Pride in 1979

Leathermen at Pride in 1980

Couple at Pride in 1990

Parents at Pride in 1983

Pride in 1990

Pride in 1980

Pride in 1980

Pride in 1980

Pride in 1982

Pride in 1994

Pride in 1994

Pride in 1990

Pride in 1984

Pride in 1990

Marsha P. Johnson and others at Pride in 1982

Pride in 1981

Marsha P. Johnson at Pride in 1982

Pride in 2000

Pride in 1990

Chilean AIDS activist Pedro Lemebel at Pride in 1994

Pride in 1990

Pride in 1995