Marchers cap Pride Month with celebration and protest : NPR

The crowds are watching people participate in the Pride de New York 2025 on Sunday in New York.

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At Pride Parades de New York in Budapest during the weekend, communities around the world have also celebrated and have demonstrated LGBTQ + inclusion in the last days of the month of pride. In addition to agitating rainbow flags, many have held protest signs, among the growing political attacks in the United States by the Republicans and the administration of President Trump.

“Our joy is our resistance,” read a panel held by a reveler with samba feathers at the New York pride parade, the oldest and the biggest event of this type in the United States this year, the theme of the New York event was “Rise Up: Pride in Protest”.

Large crowds of New Yorkers celebrated the parade while the parade descended the fifth avenue in the city center. Many of them have also demonstrated against the recent decrees and policies of President Trump aimed at transgender people and recognizing only two immutable sexes, men and women. Trump’s orders have also prohibited “gender ideology” and dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

“At a time when young people are attacked, queer art is erased and the clock is being returned to LGBTQIA + rights across the country … NYC Pride remains focused on the defense of our community while we are faced with an attack on attacks,” wrote the director of media of NYC Pride Chris Piedmont in a press release published on social networks.

The celebrations have occurred while certain companies have canceled or reduced donations to pride events across the country this year.

For the fifth consecutive year, the New York Police Department and correctional services were officially prohibited from walking in the parade while carrying their full outfit uniforms, which include firearms. On the sidelines of the parade, New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch joined members of the Gay Office Action League New York to protest against exclusion.

The New York event also commemorated the legacy of the 1969 Stonewall riots, when a raid of a violent police raid in a Greenwich Village gay bar launched the start of a national movement for LGBTQ +rights. The parade went before the Stonewall Inn, now a national monument.

Ten years after the decision of the Historic Supreme Court legalizing homosexual marriage in the United States, there have also been major pride parades in San Francisco, West Hollywood, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and Minneapolis.

“Especially this year with everything that is happening, I think it is really important to show force and show our support,” Angela Loudermilk told the member station of NPR Kqed at San Francisco Parade, in which she went up with her motorcycle club.

Other cities around the world, including Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo, organized their events earlier this month. And some, including London and Rio de Janeiro, later celebrate this year.

During a pride event in Budapest on Saturday, around 100,000 people paraded police orders and a ban by the Hungarian government.

In April, the Conservative Populist Revolutionary Party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán prohibited LGBTQ +public events, claiming that they violated children’s rights over moral and spiritual development. It was the last Hungarian repression after prohibiting marriage and homosexual adoption, and prohibited transgender people from changing their sex in official documents.

Ádám Kanicsár, a 35 -year -old Hungarian activist and journalist, the Associated Press told him and others would challenge the prohibition. “We don’t really care about the consequences, we are here because we are proud.”