Brooklyn celebrates Pride Month with parade and festival
NEW YORK -- Brooklyn celebrated Pride Month with a parade and festival Saturday.
The parade was the culmination of a day-long celebration.
"We're here to have a good ol' time," one woman said.
"Just being a part of the LGBTQ community here, it's just amazing, and then just, like, seeing all these beautiful, amazing, wonderful people, and having a community, it's just everything. It's just everything," Flatbush resident Jemaine Norton said.
From a unicorn engaging with children, people dancing and lots of floats, attendees were celebrating their pride.
"We're stepping out and we're here to be heard and we're not going anywhere, and it shows it here in the streets today," Sunset Park resident Albear O. said.
"For my culture as a trans woman, and I'm proud who I am, so I come here," Sunset Park resident Rohanie Seepersaud said.
"Pride opened a gateway for me to showcase our talent, our attitude, our style and have people that accept us for who we are in a community being under the LGBT umbrella," East Bronx resident Ariel Mars said.
Allies also showed up in strong numbers, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, who was marching in the parade.
"I'm standing up for the rights of all Americans, including the LGBT community, which is under attack," she said.
Along Fifth Avenue, some attendees were not only there for themselves but to keep their friends' memories alive.
"I do what I do because I lost so many friends, so many great people, and I do what I do because I wanna keep celebrating them," one person said.
Everyone shared stories of acceptance, pride and what being a part of this community means.
