But this year, the celebration is mixed with pain from the mass shooting of 50 people in a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, frequented by the LGBT community. According to initial calculations, nearly 30,000 people took part in the Gay Pride march this year, the largest number recorded in this city where sexual diversity has been celebrated since 1970. One of them was the Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas, one of the LGBT movement founders in his country. New York, Jun 26 (efe_epa).- New York was decked out today in rainbow colors as thousands marched through the city in a parade marked by gay pride celebrations and mourning for the recent massacre in Orlando. It is a movement of the LGBT community which emerged from protests following a historic raid at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Greenwich Village in 1969.

Source: Fox News June 27, 2016 05:37 UTC