"We're Dykes on Bikes," announced Marcia Jackson, of Burbank, California, a member of the lesbian motorcycle club who clutched the waist of Tyrone White on their motorcycle. Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined hundreds of bikers whose motorcycles roared to life at noon to kick off the celebration, a colorful cavalcade of activists and others who marched down Fifth Avenue 44 years after the city's first pride march. "If somebody had told me 50 years ago that I would be the marshal of New York City's gay pride parade in 2013, at the age of 84, I wouldn't have believed it," she said. Signs along the route read, "Thank you, Edie" - celebrating Windsor for her successful challenge of a provision of the Defence of Marriage Act that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. federal marriage benefits, Edith Windsor helped lead New York City's Gay Pride march on Sunday. NEW YORK - Only days after the Supreme Court used her lawsuit to grant same-sex couples U.S.
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