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Pride Ascending

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/GETTY;

A runner climbs steps in Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island on June 15. The steps were painted to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. The raid and the protests that followed were a galvanizing moment in the movement for LGBTQ rights. Organizers say the 12 X 100 foot pride lag is the largest in New York City.

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