Photo Slideshow: RNS archive photos

Each day we feature an "RNS Archive Image of the Day" for our readers. This gallery contains past featured images.

(New York) Hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people, accompanied by friends and families, took to the streets June 25, 1989, for the annual Gay Pride Parade. Similar parades, as well as rallies, street fairs and religious services, were celebrated in more than 80 cities across the country.  This year's parade also marked the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York when, for the first time in history, gay and lesbian people banded together in spontaneous demonstrations to oppose violence and discrimination.  Large groups of Jewish, Catholic and Protestant people marched behind banners bearing the names of their synagogues and churches to voice their support of the gay liberation movement.  Many of the groups, including this one called

Religion News Service was founded in 1934 to provide fair, balanced, non-sectarian news about religion to the secular and religious press.

In the old days, RNS had a staff of photographers who roamed the world in search of images that conveyed how faith was lived out.

Today, those images form a rich historical archive.


Each day we feature an “RNS archive image of the day” for our readers. This gallery contains past featured images.

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