Notable attendees included Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo as well as numerous other politicians or those in-the-running candidates. Politicians and corporate sponsors added to the revelry.
There was such a sheer number of participants over the nearly two mile route that the last floats hadn’t even kicked off as the rain began coming down around 3:30, though the inclement weather didn’t dampen their spirits. The March is not deemed a parade but instead, as the press release says, is a reminder of “the anniversary of that first protest in 1969 sparked by a police raid of the Stonewall Inn and remains a protest until we achieve complete and equal rights for the entire GLBT community in America.” Fittingly, its route down 5th Avenue in Manhattan ends near the Stonewall Inn at Christopher and Greenwich Street. Windsor had said “If somebody had told me 50 years ago that I would be the marshal of New York City’s gay pride parade in 2013, at the age of 84, I wouldn’t have believed it.” The US Supreme Court Justices voted 5-4 ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a case last week that had been brought in front of them by one of this year’s Grand Marshals, Edie Windsor (the other marshalss were musician Harry Belafonte and the head of the Center for Black Equity, Earl Fowlkes). “As alleged, the defendant’s hate-filled invective and threats of violence directed at members of the LGBTQ+ community have no place in our society and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace said in a statement.Pride March 2013 was more festive than ever this year, but only by the slimmest margin of votes.
The search of the home turned up two loaded shotguns, two stun guns, “hundreds” of rounds of ammo and an envelope addressed to a pro-LGBT attorney - which was filled with the remains of a dead bird, the complaint said.įehring copped to sending the letters on the spot, telling cops he was upset over a “sickening overdose of that stuff being shoved down everybody’s face on the paper, on the TV and all over the place,” the document says. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images House of Yes, a Brooklyn dance club, held a pop-up street party on Jin Herald Square, New York City when the Gay Pride march was canceled because of COVID-19. 18 raid of his home by the FBI and state authorities. “Thanks to News 12, we now know who you are, and where you are,” the missive said.įehring of Bayport was arrested on Monday after a Nov.
The letter to the barbershop - which prosecutors said had recently received television coverage - called the business “the perfect target for a bombing and/or graffiti and/or a shattered window front. Robert Fehring was arrested after threatening New York City’s Pride parade. Other targets of Fehring’s threats included the CEO of an LGBT group based in Sag Harbor in Suffolk County, LI, and a queer barbershop in Brooklyn, according to prosecutors. “No matter how long it takes, you will be taken out…. EbenhackĪnother communication this year to the organizer of a Pride event in East Meadow, LI, told the man he was “being watched. Law enforcement block off a street outside Pulse Orlando after a shooting involving multiple fatalities at the nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. One such missive to the organizers of New York City’s 2021 Pride March promised “radio-contolled devices placed at numerous strategic places” that would explode, making the 2016 nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., “look like a cakewalk,” according to the criminal complaint. Robert Fehring, 74, threatened to “assault, shoot and bomb” LGBT-affiliated individuals, businesses, organizations and events, including the parade, according to prosecutors in new documents.įehring allegedly sent more than 60 letters that threatened violence, “including through the use of firearms and explosives,” dating back to at least 2013, said the Justice Department in the Eastern District of New York. Man jailed for anti-gay stabbing attack outside Brooklyn bodegaĪ Long Island man threatened to turn New York City’s massive Pride parade into a bloodbath that would make the Pulse nightclub shooting, which killed 49 people, “look like a cakewalk,” the feds said Monday. Woman dissatisfied with food throws racist tantrum at Florida restaurant: video Unholy behavior: Vandal pens ‘All Catholics are rapists’ on NYC nonprofit center Judge urges decision on death penalty for accused Buffalo shooter