ALL PHOTOS By BERNARD MORISSET
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Enormous rainbow-striped strings of balloons flew high over Fifth Avenue during the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Parade on Sunday, June 27.
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Young people marched to draw attention to the violence that continues against the LGBT community, including the 2003 murder of Sakia Gunn, a lesbian teenager in Newark, New Jersey, and the murder the same year of Gwen Araujo, a transgendered teenager who lived in Newark, California.
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American Veterans for Equal Rights New York, the local chapter of a national organization of gay and lesbian former service members, turn out for the main event on Sunday.
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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the oldest advocacy group serving the LGBT community, turned out a contingent of marchers in New York for the first time in 15 years.
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^The first openly gay and HIV-positive candidate elected to the City Council, Manhattan Democratic State Sen. Tom Duane, an Albany lawmaker since 1998, greeted the crowds lining Fifth Avenue.
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^With plenty of sun and hot temperatures on Sunday, there was plenty of opportunity to see very hot guys wearing very little.
>Dykes on Bikes held their prime position this year as a lead-off group in the annual march down Fifth Avenue.
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