The world's largest Pride March returns in full force to New York City's Fifth Ave. An estimated 30,000 people participated in New York City's 53rd annual Pride March. The weather was nice on Sunday. Video filmed on 6/22/2022 at 18th Street and 5th Ave, Manhattan, NYC.

Held annually since 1970, the event originally commemorated the one-year anniversary of spontaneous protests and clashes with police following a June 1969 raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn. With a theme this year of "Unapologetically Us," the first fully in-person Pride March in three years drew large crowds along the route, with spectators thronging sidewalks and climbing scaffolding to watch Sunday's festivities.

There was no mistaking that this year’s event, for all its joyous celebrations, had taken on sudden urgency and heightened significance just two days after the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion and signaled that the court could reconsider other liberties, including the 2015 decision that allowed same-sex marriage.

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