It was impossible to move without jostling other attendees. Throughout the rally, there was barely room to clap. There were spirited cheers and shrieks as speaker after speaker stepped up. “I wanted to be here to celebrate the biggest time in history,” Mr. Figueiredo wore sunglasses and had a bright-pink beard. Daicy’s hair was dyed purple and he wore glittery rainbow eye shadow Mr. “I wanted her to know about the Stonewall, the harassment that happened 50 years ago and how a community finally started to fight back,” he said.Īdam Daicy, 33, and his partner of 15 years, Joey Figueiredo, 32, flew in from Kansas City, Mo., for the weekend’s festivities. Conzen said he wanted to give Sara the “basics” about Pride, so they stopped in Greenwich Village.
The crowd outside the Stonewall included Chris Conzen, 42, of Roxbury, N.J., and his daughter, Sara, 10, who had come to Manhattan to see a Broadway show. Everywhere you looked, there were bright colors, dyed hair, painted faces, body piercings, midriff tops and high heels. The exuberant crowd numbered in the thousands, and it filled the streets around the perimeter of Christopher Park.
