US cities cap Pride Month with a mix of party and protest
New York – The celebration of one month of Pride LGBTQ + reaches its crescendo in charge of rainbow while New York and other big cities around the world host parades and marches on Sunday.
The Manhattan festivities, which house the oldest and largest celebration of the country’s pride, start with a walking at the bottom of the fifth avenue with more than 700 participating groups and expected a huge crowd.
The walkers go in front of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar from Greenwich Village where a police raid from 1969 sparked demonstrations and sparked the LGBTQ +rights movement. The site is now a national monument.
In San Francisco, walkers in another of the biggest events in the world will go to the central market center, reaching concert stages installed in the Civic Center Plaza. The town hall of San Francisco is also among the sites that welcome a post-promotional party.
Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Toronto, Canada are among the other major North American cities welcoming pride 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.
The first march of pride took place in New York in 1970 to commemorate the one -year birthday of Stonewall uprising.
Pride celebrations are generally a mixture of a day of street jubilant and political protest parties, but the organizers have declared that this year’s iterations will take a more provocative position than in recent years.
The festivities came a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court benchmark on June 26, 2015, in power in Obergefell v. Hodges who recognized homosexual marriage on a national scale.
But the Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, sought to retreat LGBTQ +friendly policies.
Since his entry into office in January, Trump has specifically targeted transgender people, withdrawing them from soldiers, preventing federal insurance programs from paying for gender assertion for young people and trying to keep transgender athletes outside of girls and female sports.
The theme of Manhattan’s event is, appropriately, “Rise Up: Pride in Protest”. The theme of the pride of San Francisco is “Queer joy is the resistance” while that of Seattle is simply “stronger”.
“It’s not time to be silent,” said Patti Hearn, executive director of Seattle Pride, in a statement before the event. “We are going to get up. We are going to talk. We will become noisy. “
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.
