The LGBT Pride March in New York City was canceled April 20 — the latest in a series of Pride cancellations due to the novel coronavirus outbreak that within weeks killed over 40,000 Americans.
The cancellation of the New York event comes on its 50th anniversary. The New York City Pride parade, like its San Francisco sibling, is the annual celebration of the Stonewall uprising in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in June 1969 — the event that kicked off the modern LGBT rights movement in the United