LGBTQ2S+ Pride commemorations that sometimes have felt like victory parties for civil rights gains are now grappling with an environment of ramped-up legislative and rhetorical battles over sexual ori
entation and gender identity, and fears that a Supreme Court ruling on abortion opens the door to rights being taken away.
"There are so many anti-LGBTQ2S+attacks going on around the country, and a lot of them are really about trying to erase our existence and to make us invisible, and to make our young people invisible and our elders invisible," said Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE, which advocates for LGBTQ elders. The majority decision claimed it was solely about abortion, but in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said other cases should be looked at again, including the one that made same-sex marriage legal.
Protest has always been an element of New York City's Pride Parade, which roughly coincides with the anniversary of the beginning of the June 28, 1969, Stonewall uprising – days of angry demonstrations sparked by a police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan.In recent years, though, they've often been celebrations of major victories for LGBTQ2S+ communities to celebrate, like in 2015 when the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell v. Hodges decision recognizing same-sex marriage.
Anyone who might have been "lulled into a false sense of security" by previous civil rights victories "has been woken up now," Adams said. "I think a lot of us who understand the history of the struggle for equality and equity and social justice in this country know that the fight is never over." Ellen Ensig-Brodsky, 89, has embraced both those roles in her decades of attending Pride as a LGBTQ2S+ rights activist.
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