The Republican president also broke from Democratic predecessor Barack Obama's practice of issuing a proclamation in honor of Pride Month.Īt the jam-packed New York City parade, a few attendees wore 'Make America Gay Again' hats, while one group walking silently in the parade wore 'Black Lives Matter' shirts as they held up signs with a fist and with a rainbow background, a symbol for gay pride. In New York, for instance, grand marshals from the American Civil Liberties Union were chosen to represent a 'resistance movement.'Īctivists have been galled by the Trump administration's rollback of federal guidance advising school districts to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. In a year when leaders are anxious about the president's agenda, parade organizers in New York and San Francisco were more focused on protest.
Thousands of people lined the streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast-to-coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new threats to gay rights in the Trump era.
