In Photos: The 49th New York Pride March

Parade participants utilize a specially repainted crosswalk as the march gets under way.
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Marcelo Abramovich marches along Fifth Avenue, with the Empire State Building in the background.
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Parade marshal Billie Jean King waves as the procession passes the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village landmark of the gay rights movement.
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