Featuring live performances and on-air interviews, the broadcast will air on ABC-7 from 12:00pm to 3:00pm ET on Sunday, June 26 as well on, ABC News Live, and ABC7 New York’s Connected TV Apps on streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, and Roku. The NYC Pride March broadcast special, co-hosted by Angelica Ross along with WABC’s Ken Rosato, Lauren Glassberg and Sam Champion, will return for its sixth consecutive year. Ts Madison, Punkie Johnson, Schuyler Bailar, Dominique Morgan, and Chase Strangio will head this year’s celebration, with Angelica Ross returning for a second year as co-host and featured performer of the broadcast special on ABC-7. NYC Pride announces its Grand Marshals slated to lead the NYC Pride March on Sunday, June 26, 2022. More than 75% percent of all marching groups are non-profit organizations, and more than half of all marching groups are participating free-of-charge. It will then turn north on 7th Avenue, passing the New York City AIDS Memorial, before dispersing in Chelsea at 16th Street and 7th Avenue.
After crossing over 6th Avenue, the March will continue on Christopher Street passing the Stonewall National Monument. Marchers will proceed south on 5th Avenue before heading west on 8th Street. “The feedback we are getting is that more people want to come out (to demonstrate) they won’t be pushed back into the closet.The NYC Pride March will begin at noon on June 26th from 25th Street and 5th Avenue. “Our history shows that we beat back hate like this by coming out and coming together and being in public,” he said. It’s unknown how last weekend’s rampage at Orlando club Pulse that left 49 people dead will affect attendance at the popular parades and festivals.īut in Chicago, the parade coordinator Richard Pfeiffer said the attack may increase attendance for the 47th parade. “We’re making security a top priority,” said organizer Debra Pollock, chief executive officer of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado, which is holding that city’s event.Īnd in New Orleans, city officials say that security will be beefed up in the popular French Quarter for the city’s annual gay pride celebrations, announcing that large numbers of police officers and state troopers will be on duty throughout the weekend.
In Denver, organizers of this Sunday’s PrideFest, said the 300,000 people expected to attend will see more fences, more searches of bags and other security measures. The FBI also echoed Johnson’s plea to the public to quickly report any suspicious activity. The FBI also said it would take an active role, gathering intelligence on any possible threat to the parade and sharing that information with Chicago police.
Parade organizers themselves also are providing additional security at the city’s request - hiring 160 off-duty police officers and other security professionals, 70 more than worked the parade last year. In Chicago, where nearly 1 million people have attended the pride parade in previous years, better security - including 200 additional uniformed and plainclothes officers - will be assigned to this weekend’s PrideFest and next weekend’s parade out of “an abundance of caution,” Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Thursday. While federal and local authorities haven’t received information of any credible threats, authorities from Denver to Chicago to New Orleans are tightening security with bag searches, more police officers and private security workers and more crowd-control barriers. The huge crowds expected to attend gay pride parades around the United States in the coming weeks will be greeted by more police officers and ramped-up security measures as a means to protect them in the wake of the mass shooting in a gay nightclub in Florida. To stay up to date on the stories that matter. WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.