At LGBTQ bars across the city, the first weekend of Pride Month celebrations seemed to signify the end of a two-year-long anxiety that the community’s gathering spots might not make it through to a post-pandemic recovery.
Stonewall and other historical icons, Branded Saloon and similar quiet neighborhood coves and Lambda Lounge and other Black-owned newcomers spent the weekend welcoming crowds for the kickoff of the third Pride Month since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
This year’s celebration is expected to be the largest since 2019, when a record 5 million people attended the city’s parade. New York’s Pride Month has been a mostly virtual gathering in the two years
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