40th Annual NYC Heritage of Pride Celebration

In Commemoration of the 41st Anniversary of the STONEWALL RIOTS
40th Annual NYC Heritage of Pride Celebration
PARADE & FESTIVAL
as captured in the streets of Chelsea & the West Village . New York City, NY . Sunday, 27 June 2010
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography . Videography . Writings . Ads
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FULL CIRCLE
NYC Pride 2010

For the purpose of this photoessay, let's start with the first gay pride that I ever attended. Which was 30
years ago, in June of 1980, when I took the AMTRAK from WDC to NYC to spend the weekend with my
best friend, Frank. Who, at the time, shared a first floor apartment with at least two other guys at 165
Christopher Street at the corner of Washington Street in the West Village.

An Italian from Long Island, Frank and I had been close friends since, as freshmen, that we first met at
Easton dorm at the University of Maryland / College Park in September 1973.

UNDER CONSTTUCTION . 29 June 2010