Parade participants wave flags at the march during the 2016 San Francisco Pride Parade on Sunday, June 26. Hundreds of thousands of people came out to watch the event, one of the largest in the world.
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Participants at the San Francisco parade hold signs in the honor of the victims of the Orlando night club shooting.
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Thomas Pedroza marches along the San Francisco parade route with the names of the Orlando shooting victims written on his body.
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Cheer San Francisco performs during the San Francisco parade.
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Participants in the 47th annual Chicago Pride Parade carry pictures of the Orlando shooting victims.
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Members of Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles march in the Chicago parade.
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Marchers in New York carry rainbow flags.
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Participants walk along along Fifth Avenue during the New York City Pride Parade on June 26.
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Marchers carry rainbow flags and signs in tribute to the Orlando shooting victims during New York's parade on June 26.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, flanked by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Rev. Al Sharpton, attends New York's parade on June 26.
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Security was heightened during New York's parade following the June 12 massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub.
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Men cover their faces with rainbow flags during a gay pride parade in Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday. Homosexuality was a crime in communist-era Romania, and it is still not widely accepted among many Romanian people. Many gays hide their sexual orientation to avoid discrimination.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan, center, and his wife Saadiya Khan lead a march during Pride in London on June 25.
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An American flag with the date of the Orlando shootings flies above a rainbow flag with a Union Jack in the distance during London's Pride march on June 25.
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People hold placards depicting hearts and couples, during a flash mob for the annual Pride Parade in Milan, Italy, on June 25.
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Marchers walk with a giant rainbow flag during the Pride parade in Bologna, Italy, on June 25.
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People hold placards reading "Orlando" in memory of the victims of Orlando's gay nightclub shooting as thousands of people parade in the streets of Thessaloniki, Greece, during the city's 5th Gay Pride march on June 25.
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Filipino members and supporters of the LGBT community take part in a gay pride march calling for equal rights in Manila, Philippines, on June 25.
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A man stops in front of the Stonewall Inn on Friday, June 24, in New York City. President Barack Obama designated Stonewall Inn and approximately 7.7 acres surrounding it as the first national monument dedicated "to tell the story of the struggle for LGBT rights." Considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, the tavern is where patrons fought back against police persecution in 1969.