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The one month celebration of the LGBTQ pride reached its crescendo in charge of rainbow on Sunday while huge crowds participated in jubilatrical celebrations on rue de la Jour de New York in San Francisco.
The celebrations of pride generally weave politics and protest with colorful apparatus, but this year’s iterations have taken a resolutely more provocative position as Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, sought to find LGBTQ friendly policies.
The theme of the festivities in Manhattan was, rightly, “Rise Up: Pride in Protest”. The theme of the pride of San Francisco was “Queer joy is resistance”, while Seattle was simply “stronger”.
Launches Brammer, a 56 -year -old teacher from Ohio, assistant to his first proud parade in New York, said that he felt “validated” while he was amazing the size of the city celebration, the oldest and largest in the country.
“With the climate we have politically, it seems that they are trying to remove the entire LGBTQ community, in particular the trans community,” he said with a lively and multicolored shirt. “And it just shows that they have a fight in front of them if they think they will do it with all these people here and all the support.”
In San Francisco, Xander Briere said that the LGBTQ + community is fighting for its very survival in the face of sustained attacks and the evolution of public feeling, especially against transgender people.
“We are slowly having time, and it’s unfortunate and it’s scary,” said the San Francisco Community Health Center program. “We have the impression that the world hates us right now, but it is a beautiful community celebration of the Resistance, of history to show the world that we are here and that we are nowhere.”
The Manhattan parade made its way to the fifth avenue with more than 700 participating groups welcomed by a huge crowd.
The hilly celebration exceeded Stonewall Inn, a gay bar from Greenwich Village where a police raid from 1969 sparked demonstrations and sparked the LGBTQ +rights movement. The first march of pride, held in New York in 1970, commemorated the one -year birthday of Stonewall uprising. The site is now a national monument.
Meanwhile, the walkers in San Francisco, host another of the largest pride events in the world, went to the center of California City Market Street for the concert stages installed at the Civic Center Plaza. Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Toronto, Canada, were among the other major North American cities that hosted proud parades on Sunday.
Several world cities, including Tokyo, Paris and Sao Paulo, organized their events earlier this month while others come later in the year, including London in July and Rio de Janeiro in November.
Since his entry into office in January, Trump is specifically aims at transgender people, withdrawing them from soldiers, preventing federal insurance programs from paying for surgeries stating for young people and tries to keep transgender athletes outside the sports of girls and women.
“We must be visible. We must come together. We must fight. Our existence is trying to be erased,” said Jahnel Butler, one of the great marshals of the community of the San Francisco parade.
Peter McLaughlin said he had been living in New York for years but has never attended the pride parade. The 34 -year -old Brooklyn resident said he felt forced this year as a Transgender man.
“Many people just don’t understand that letting people live does not withdraw their own experience, and right now, it’s just important to show that we are only people,” said McLaughlin.
Gabrielle Meighan, 23, from New Jersey, said that she thought it was important to get out of this year celebrations because they come a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark on June 26, 2015, decision in Obergefell v. Hodges who recognized the same national marriage.
Manhattan also organized the Queer Liberation Marche on Sunday, an event focused on activism launched in recent years in the interests that the most public parade has become too many business.
The walkers holding panels which included “gender assertions save lives” and “no pride in apartheid” directed north of the city’s AIDS memorial at the Columbus Circle near Central Park.
This year, the other winds -contrary winds facing homosexual defense groups, the loss of business sponsorship.
American companies have brought the support of pride events, reflecting a broader walk in diversity and inclusion efforts in the midst of the public feeling.
NYC Pride said earlier this month than about 20% of its business sponsors had abandoned or reduced support, including Pepsico and Nissan. The organizers of San Francisco Pride said they had lost the support of five major business donors, including Comcast and Anheuser-Busch.
