{"id":203510,"date":"2024-06-01T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=203510"},"modified":"2024-06-01T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T16:19:12","slug":"lgbtq-pride-month-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/lgbtq-pride-month-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Pride Month begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pride Month, the worldwide celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights, kicks off Saturday with events around the globe.<\/p>

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But this year\u2019s festivities in the U.S. will unfold against a backdrop of dozens of new state laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – Revelers participate in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo\/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here are things to know about the celebrations and the politics around them.<\/p>

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WHY IS JUNE PRIDE MONTH?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The monthlong global celebration began with Gay Pride Week in late June 1970, a public celebration that marked the first anniversary of the violent police raid at New York\u2019s Stonewall Inn<\/a>, a gay bar.<\/p>

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At a time when LGBTQ+ people largely kept their identity or orientation quiet, the June 28, 1969, raid sparked a series of protests and catalyzed the movement for rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – A Grand Haven Pride Fest attendee is seen cheering during a drag show at the Lynne Sherwood Waterfront Stadium in Grand Haven, Mich., on Saturday, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo\/Kristen Norman, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first pride week featured marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, and it has grown ever since. Some events fall outside of June: Tokyo\u2019s Rainbow Pride was in April and Rio de Janeiro has a major event in November.<\/p>

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In 1999, President Bill Clinton proclaimed June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT\u2019S BEING CELEBRATED?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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FILE – Demonstrators carry signs down Hollywood Boulevard calling to end the discrimination on June 29, 1970, in Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo\/File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pride\u2019s hallmark rainbow-laden parades and festivals celebrate the progress the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement has made.<\/p>

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In the U.S. in April, a federal appeals court ruled North Carolina and West Virginia\u2019s refusal to cover certain health care<\/a> for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.<\/p>

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In one compromise in March, a settlement of legal challenges<\/a> to a Florida law critics called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d clarifies that teachers can have pictures on their desks of their same-sex partners and books with LGBTQ+ themes. It also says books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes can remain in campus libraries and gay-straight alliance chapters at schools need not be forced underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greece this year legalized same-sex marriage<\/a>, one of three dozen nations around the world to do so, and a similar law approved in Estonia<\/a> in June 2023 took effect this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHAT\u2019S BEING PROTESTED?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rights have been lost around the world, including heavy prison sentences for gay and transgender people in Iraq<\/a> and the death penalty for \u201caggravated homosexuality\u201d in Uganda<\/a>. More than 60 countries have anti-LGBTQ+ laws, advocates say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tightening of those laws<\/a> has contributed to the flow of people from Africa and the Middle East seeking asylum in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Republican-controlled U.S. states have been adopting policies that target LGBTQ+ people, and particularly transgender people, in various ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-five states now have laws banning gender-affirming care<\/a> for transgender minors. Some states have taken other actions, with laws or policies primarily keeping transgender girls and women out of bathrooms<\/a> and sports competitions that align with their gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOP state attorneys general have challenged a federal regulation<\/a>, set to take effect in August, that would ban the bathroom bans at schools. There also have been efforts to ban or regulate drag performances<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the policies are facing legal challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – Mac Weatherill, left, and Yexara Col\u00f3n Martinez, second from left, hold transgender pride fans as they help carry a large rainbow flag on their fourth anniversary during the annual Seattle Pride Parade, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo\/Lindsey Wasson, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022<\/a>, leading to restrictive abortion laws in most GOP-controlled states, LGBTQ+ advocates are worried about losing ground too, said Kevin Jennings, CEO of nonprofit civil rights organization Lambda Legal. On the eve of Pride, the organization announced a $180 million fundraising goal for more lawyers to challenge anti-LGBTQ+ laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Progress such as the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide could be lost without political and legal vigilance, Jennings said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur community looks at what happened to reproductive rights thanks to the Dobbs decision two years ago and has enormous anxiety over whether we\u2019re about to have a massive rollback of what we\u2019ve gained in the 55 years since Stonewall,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT ABOUT BUSINESSES?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While big businesses from Apple to Wells Fargo sponsor events across the U.S., a pushback made ripples last year at one major discount retailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target was selling Pride-themed items<\/a> last June but removed some from stores and moved displays to the back of some locations after customers tipped them over and confronted workers. The company then faced additional backlash from customers who were upset the retailer gave in to people prejudiced against LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year, the store has said it would not carry the items at all its stores. But the company remains a major sponsor of NYC Pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARE EVENTS SAFE?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Keeping the events safe is the top priority, organizers said, but there could be challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory in May<\/a> that foreign terrorist organizations could target events associated with Pride. The same month, the State Department renewed a security warning for Americans overseas<\/a>, especially LGBTQ+ people and events globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law enforcement officials noted ISIS sympathizers were arrested last year for attempting to attack a June 2023 Pride parade in Vienna and that ISIS messaging last year called for followers to attack \u201csoft targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The agencies say people should always watch out for threats made online, in person or by mail. People should take note if someone tries to enter a restricted area, bypass security or impersonate law enforcement and call 911 for emergencies and report threats to the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NYC Pride has a heavy security presence and works with city agencies outside the perimeter, said Sandra Perez, the event\u2019s executive director. The group expects 50,000 people marching in its June 30 parade and more than 1.5 million people watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fight for liberation isn\u2019t over,\u201d Perez said. \u201cThe need to be visible and the need to be mindful of what we need to do to ensure that the future generations don\u2019t have these struggles is really top of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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