NEW YORK: Celebrations mixed with shows of resistance on Sunday as LGBTQ+ pride parades filled the streets of some of the country’s biggest cities in annual events that have become part party, part protest.
In New York, thousands marched down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village, cheering and waving rainbow flags to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising, where a police raid on a gay bar sparked days of protests and launched a movement for rights. LGBTQ+.
While some people celebrated enthusiastically, many were aware of the growing conservative counter-movement to limit rights, including by banning gender-affirming care for transgender children.
“I’m not trying not to be very political, but when it goes out to my community, I get really angry and it hurts a lot,” said Ve Cinder, a 22-year-old transgender woman who traveled from Pennsylvania to take part in the pride event over big in the country
“I am only afraid for my future and for myself. trans siblings. I am afraid of how this country has looked at human rights, basic human rights,” she said. “It’s crazy.”
Parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are among the events that approximately 400 Pride organizations across the US will host this year, many of which will focus specifically on transgender rights.
Artists and activists, drag performers and transgender advocates are among the parade grand marshals embracing a message of unity as new laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community take effect in several US states.
“The platform will rise and we will see communities across the country show their unity and solidarity through these events,” he said. Harte’s RumCo-President of the American Pride Association.
Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and Seattle all have gay pride parades scheduled on Sunday. In the parade in Toronto, Canada, more than 100 groups are expected to march. In New York City, seven-time Grammy winner Christina Aguilera will headline a post-march concert in Brooklyn.
The annual observations have spread to other cities and have grown to welcome bisexual, transgender, and queer people, as well as other groups.
About a decade ago, when her 13-year-old son wanted to call himself a boy for the first time, Roz Gould Keith sought help. He found little to help his family navigate the transition. They attended a Pride parade in the Detroit area, but saw little transgender representation.
This year, she is heartened by the increased visibility of transgender people at marches and celebrations across the country this month.
“Ten years ago when my son asked to go to Motor City Pride, there was nothing for the trans community,” said Keith, founder and CEO of Stand with Trans, a group formed to support and empower transgender youth and their families. .
This year, he said, the event was “packed” with transgender people.
One of the grand marshals of the New York City parade is nonbinary activist AC Dumlao, chief of staff for Athlete Ally, a group that advocates for LGBTQ+ athletes.
“Encouraging the trans community has always been at the center of our events and programming,” said Dan Dimant, spokesman for NYC Pride.
Many of this year’s parades called on LGBTQ+ communities to unite against dozens, if not hundreds, of bills now being considered in state chambers across the country.
Lawmakers in 20 states have moved to ban gender-affirming child care, and at least seven more are considering doing the same, adding further urgency for the transgender community, advocates say.
“We are under threat,” organizers of the Pride event in New York, San Francisco and San Diego said in a statement joined by 50 other Pride organizations across the country. nature and intensity, share a common trait: they seek to undermine our love, our identity, our freedom, our security and our lives.
Some parades, including the event in Chicago, planned to tighten security amid the turmoil.
The Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ+ organization, found 101 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents in the first three weeks of this month, roughly double the number in all of June last year.
sarah moorewhich looks at the extremism of the two civil rights groups, said many of the June incidents coincide with Pride events.
In New York, thousands marched down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village, cheering and waving rainbow flags to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising, where a police raid on a gay bar sparked days of protests and launched a movement for rights. LGBTQ+.
While some people celebrated enthusiastically, many were aware of the growing conservative counter-movement to limit rights, including by banning gender-affirming care for transgender children.
“I’m not trying not to be very political, but when it goes out to my community, I get really angry and it hurts a lot,” said Ve Cinder, a 22-year-old transgender woman who traveled from Pennsylvania to take part in the pride event over big in the country
“I am only afraid for my future and for myself. trans siblings. I am afraid of how this country has looked at human rights, basic human rights,” she said. “It’s crazy.”
Parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are among the events that approximately 400 Pride organizations across the US will host this year, many of which will focus specifically on transgender rights.
Artists and activists, drag performers and transgender advocates are among the parade grand marshals embracing a message of unity as new laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community take effect in several US states.
“The platform will rise and we will see communities across the country show their unity and solidarity through these events,” he said. Harte’s RumCo-President of the American Pride Association.
Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and Seattle all have gay pride parades scheduled on Sunday. In the parade in Toronto, Canada, more than 100 groups are expected to march. In New York City, seven-time Grammy winner Christina Aguilera will headline a post-march concert in Brooklyn.
The annual observations have spread to other cities and have grown to welcome bisexual, transgender, and queer people, as well as other groups.
About a decade ago, when her 13-year-old son wanted to call himself a boy for the first time, Roz Gould Keith sought help. He found little to help his family navigate the transition. They attended a Pride parade in the Detroit area, but saw little transgender representation.
This year, she is heartened by the increased visibility of transgender people at marches and celebrations across the country this month.
“Ten years ago when my son asked to go to Motor City Pride, there was nothing for the trans community,” said Keith, founder and CEO of Stand with Trans, a group formed to support and empower transgender youth and their families. .
This year, he said, the event was “packed” with transgender people.
One of the grand marshals of the New York City parade is nonbinary activist AC Dumlao, chief of staff for Athlete Ally, a group that advocates for LGBTQ+ athletes.
“Encouraging the trans community has always been at the center of our events and programming,” said Dan Dimant, spokesman for NYC Pride.
Many of this year’s parades called on LGBTQ+ communities to unite against dozens, if not hundreds, of bills now being considered in state chambers across the country.
Lawmakers in 20 states have moved to ban gender-affirming child care, and at least seven more are considering doing the same, adding further urgency for the transgender community, advocates say.
“We are under threat,” organizers of the Pride event in New York, San Francisco and San Diego said in a statement joined by 50 other Pride organizations across the country. nature and intensity, share a common trait: they seek to undermine our love, our identity, our freedom, our security and our lives.
Some parades, including the event in Chicago, planned to tighten security amid the turmoil.
The Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ+ organization, found 101 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents in the first three weeks of this month, roughly double the number in all of June last year.
sarah moorewhich looks at the extremism of the two civil rights groups, said many of the June incidents coincide with Pride events.
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