- Title: 'I'm nervous' - New York celebrates gay pride in wake of Supreme Court rulings
- Date: 26th June 2022
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JUNE 26, 2022) (REUTERS) CONFETTI BEING THROWN TO START 2022 GAY PRIDE MARCH IN MANHATTAN BIKERS AT START OF PARADE PARADEGOER PUMPING UP CROWD, SAYING, "LET'S GO" GOTHAM CHEER PERFORMANCE DANCE ROUTINE IN MARCH SIGN ATHAT READS, "BODILY AUTONOMY IS A HUMAN RIGHT" NEW YORK SENATOR, AND SENATE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY LEADER, CHUCK SCHUMER, IN MA
- Embargoed: 10th July 2022 21:06
- Keywords: 2022 pride NYC Pride Pride Stonewall gay rights
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: United States
- Reuters ID: LVA001760726062022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ communities in New York and 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.
They also marked the first full celebrations since the pandemic.
LGBTQ leaders fear the ruling endangers personal freedom beyond abortion rights. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Court might reconsider other precedents, mentioning specifically the rulings protecting the rights to contraception, same-sex intimacy and gay marriage.
"We are at this point in this country where established precedent and established laws that have been guiding for 50 years, gone overnight it seems," said Jolene Marchetti, a Philadelphia-based musical instrument repair worker on hand in New York. "Honestly, I am nervous."
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.
The measures enacted in several red states bar classroom discussion of gender identity, block access to healthcare to help young people transition, and restrict participation in sports.
At New York City's Pride parade, women's health provider Planned Parenthood was the first group to kick off the march. Throngs of people dressed in rainbow colors cheered as Planned Parenthood representatives, holding pink signs that read "Together. We fight for all" started the parade in Manhattan around noon on Sunday.
"Everybody please scream for Planned Parenthood!" an announcer called over a loudspeaker. The crowd then began a chant of, "We won't back down!"
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