Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ communities across the United States this weekend took on a tone of outrage following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion and a wave of anti-transgender legislation.
The weekend's Pride events, which included Sunday parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver, came on the heels of fervent protests in some of the same cities since Friday, when abortion rights supporters took to the streets to decry the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.
Even before the Supreme Court's ruling against abortion rights, the LGBTQ community's Pride month jubilation was weighed down by a raft of Republican-backed state laws that specifically target transgender youth. "This march is going to have more of a serious tone than celebratory, and I don't think that's a bad thing at all," Krystal Marx, executive director of Seattle Pride, said ahead of that city's parade, which was expecting half a million attendees on Sunday.
“It feels like there’s a cloud over everybody who has a uterus,” said Maya Reddick, a high school student attending San Francisco’s celebration with friends, who was holding a sign that said “reproductive rights are human rights.”
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