New York (AP)-The months of celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached the crescendo loaded by rainbow on Sunday, as huge crowds of cheering, days from New York to San Francisco.
As a rule, politics and protest with colorful Pagantry, but this year’s iterations took a very defiant attitude as the Republicans, under the direction of President Donald Trump, took back the LGBTQ+ friendliness guidelines.
The theme of the celebrations in Manhattan was appropriate: “Ascent: pride in protest”. San Francisco’s Pride topic was “Queer Joy is resistance”, while Seattle was simply “louder”.
Lance Brammer, a 56-year-old teacher from Ohio, who visited his first Pride parade in New York, said that he felt “validated” when he was amazed at the sheer size of the city’s celebration, the oldest and largest in the nation.
“With the climate that we have political, it only seems as if they are trying to eliminate the entire LGBTQ community, especially the trans community,” he said with a lively, multicolored shirt. “And it only shows that you have a fight in front of you if you believe that you will do this with all these people here and all the support.”
In San Francisco, Xander Brieee fights the LGBTQ+ community in view of persistent attacks and a changed public mood, especially against transgender people, for their survival.
“We are slowly rolling back and it is unhappy and it is scary,” said the program specialist at the San Francisco Community Health Center. “It feels like the world is hating us right now, but this is a nice joint celebration of resistance, history to show the world that we are here and we are not going anywhere.”
Manhattan’s Parade greeted himself with more than 700 participating groups of huge crowds.
The ceremonial celebration passed the Stonewall Inn, a Gudenwich Village Gay Bar, in which a police from 1969 triggered protests and triggered the LGBTQ+ Rights movement. The first Pride March, who took place in New York City in 1970, recalled the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The website is now a national monument.
In the meantime, the demonstrators in San Francisco, which organized another of the world’s largest pride events, led the Central Market Street of the California City to concert stages at the Civic Center Plaza. Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Toronto, Canada, were among the other huge North American cities in which Pride parades took place on Sunday.
Several global cities, including Tokyo, Paris and Sao Paulo, organized their events at the beginning of this month, while others come later a year, including London in July and Rio de Janeiro in November.
Since taking office in January, Trump has won the specific goal for transgender people, removing them from the military, preventing federal insurance programs from paying gender operations for newborn people and trying to keep transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports.
“We have to be visible. We have to come together. We have to fight. Our existence is trying to be deleted,” said Jahnnel Butler, one of the Grand Marschles of the community at the San Francisco Parade.
Peter McLaughlin said he had lived in New York for years, but never took part in the Pride Parade. The 34-year-old inhabitant of Brooklyn said that he was forced as a transgender man this year.
“Many people just don’t understand that it is simply important to show that we are only people,” said McLaughlin.
Gabrielle Meighan, 23, from New Jersey, said it was significant to get out of this year’s celebrations because they recognized the equal bonus on June 26, 2015 on June 26, 2015, which recognized the equal marriage on June 26, 2015.
Manhattan was also the Queer Liberation March on Sunday, an activism-centered event that has been launched in recent years because the mainstream parade had become too correct.
Demonstrators held signs with “gender -specific care saved life” and “no pride in apartheid” went north from the city’s AIDS monument to the Columbus Circle near Central Park.
Among the other headwind, which Gay Rights groups are confronted this year, is the loss of company sponsorship.
American companies have withdrawn the support of pride events, which reflects a broader return of diversity and inclusion efforts that change in the shift in the public mood.
NYC Pride said at the beginning of this month that about 20% of his company sponsors have fallen or reduced support, including Pepsico and Nissan. The San Francisco Pride organizers said they had lost the support of five huge company donors, including comcast and Anheuser-Busch.
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Associated Press Video journalists Ted Shafrey in New York and Haven Daley in San Francisco contributed to this story.
