Billy’s Sports Bar party kicks off LGBT Pride Month
<p>Bronx residents celebrated with start of LGBT Pride Month with a kickoff event near Yankee Stadium Thursday. </p>
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Jun 2, 2017, 1:56 AM
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Bronx residents celebrated with start of LGBT Pride Month with a kickoff event near Yankee Stadium Thursday.
About 650 members of the LGBT community and their allies gathered at Billy's Sports Bar for their sixth annual event in support of inclusiveness.
Participants also paused to remember the victims of a terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
The massacre left 49 people dead.
The victims were honored at the start of the event.
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