As anti-gay sentiments resurface, some are pushing for pride parades to return to their roots — less blocks-long street parties, more overtly civil rights marches.
Thousands of people — many decked in pride colors — lined the parade route through Manhattan, cheering as floats and marchers passed by.
As he remembers things, the parade was once about defiance and pushing against an oppressive mainstream that saw gays, lesbians and transgender people as unworthy outsiders. San Francisco's first march was in 1972 and had been held every year since, except during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New York City parade spectator Jackie English said she and her fiancee Dana had yet to set a wedding date, but have a new sense of urgency. Several states have put laws in place prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in team sports that coincide with the gender in which they identify.
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