Police did not give an official estimate.
Organizers said some 250,000 marchers from 350 organizations with 30 floats, bands and choruses paraded past 300,000 spectators. for a minute of silence to remember those who have died from AIDS, the disease that has ravaged the gay community. Marchers stopped in their tracks on the 2.5-mile-long route at 2:30 p.m. In New York, thousands of gay and lesbian demonstrators marched down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Sunday in the city's annual Heritage of Pride parade, aimed this year at honoring homosexuals in the military.
