NYC LGBT Pride March 2013 (slide show, video)

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Despite some recent low points for the city's gay residents, this year's Pride March was an even more upbeat affair than usual, thanks to last month's overturn of the Defense of Marriage Act, the nullification of California's Proposition 8 and the fact that NYC's current mayoral front runner is an out lesbian. And while there's no denying Speaker Quinn's star power, the biggest applause throughout the march consistently went to 84-year-old widow Edie Windsor, one of this year's marshals (along with Harry Belafonte and Earl Fowlkes) and the woman at the center of the Supreme Court case that overturned DOMA. Even when the skies opened up in the late afternoon, the celebration on Fifth Avenue showed no signs of slowing down.