NEW YORK (AFP) – Activists took to the streets here Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings that became a defining moment of the gay rights movement.
Calling for legalizing same-sex marriage, a bill for which remains before the New York state senate, hundreds of thousands of people joined the colorful annual parade that marks the 1969 raid on the gay-friendly Stonewall Inn.
"Forty years after, we are still fighting for gay marriage, we are still fighting for the same rights as anyone else. One day, we are gonna get it," 25-year-old Lesha McKinzie told AFP.
"Everyone should have the right to be married. It doesn't matter if you are gay or not because marriage is a union of two people, it's love."
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