More clandestine measures, in addition to an increased public presence, will be integral to the security measures. Bomb-sniffing dogs, rooftop patrols and boats are also part of the security plan for Sunday’s parade. The New York Police Department said it will increase the number of officers in and around the parade route. Organized by, Nipple Pride Parades were scheduled for dozens of cities across North America yesterday including New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and San Francisco. New York City is also taking additional measures to ensure the safety of more than 20,000 parade participants and more than 1.6 million spectators, the Wall Street Journal reported. Bare-breasted women and men took to the New York City streets yesterday to demand the same constitutional topless rights for all. But rather than feeling safer with the security boost, some LGBT members instead were uncomfortable with plans for larger numbers of police and metal detectors at the parade. Presented by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. James Infirmary also participating, the Associated Press reported. The Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project and Black Lives Matter had planned to serve as honorary grand marshals for the gay pride 2016 parade in San Francisco, with the St. Officials in New York City and San Francisco announced plans for heightened security at Sunday's gay pride 2016 parades in the wake of the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.īut plans for an increased police presence have resulted in some unintended consequences, with three groups - Black Lives Matter the Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project and a health clinic - announcing plans to withdraw from the San Francisco gay pride parade. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio walk during the New York City Pride March on June 26, 2016, in New York. The 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, aka LGBTQ March, comes exactly two weeks after a man shot dead 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the marchers carried pictures of the dead, and signs that said some version of 'We Are Orlando.' Click on any photograph to see it enlarged.