They have weathered fights over how to respond to the AIDS crisis and the fight for marriage equality, and weighed whether accepting lucrative corporate sponsorships was selling out. Organizers have grappled with criticism over the lack of attention to women, bisexuals, racial minorities and, more recently, transgender people. Internal conflicts have become a hallmark of gay pride marches ever since. That first march and rally (“a gay-in” in the parlance of the era) were staged on the first anniversary of the days of uprisings that followed a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. They even debated whether people who joined in the 51-block march from Greenwich Village to Central Park should be required to follow a dress code. Even at the first march in Manhattan in 1970, organizers fought over whether it should be called a gay pride march or a gay power march. Conflict has been baked into gay pride marches from the beginning.