{"id":4330,"date":"2026-06-28T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:04:13","slug":"lgbtq-pride-parades-set-for-sunday-in-nyc-and-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4330","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Pride parades set for Sunday in NYC and San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pride Month celebrations peak Sunday with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some other cities on the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, which accelerated and transformed the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4328\">Iraqi officials, including lawmakers, arrested on corruption charges in overnight raid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pride events often mix celebration and calls to action, reflecting the political winds, cultural climate and news around LGBTQ+ rights. <\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s parades and festivals around the U.S. have unfolded as President Donald Trump works to roll back transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Among other moves, the Republican\u2019s administration removed a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument earlier this year, then ultimately relented amid a lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs LGBTQIA+ events and symbols are being erased, it\u2019s vital that our community have safe spaces to show up and march to make clear: We are here,\u201d Chris Piedmont, a spokesperson for New York parade organizers Heritage of Pride, said in a statement Friday. \u201cWe will not be erased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, multiple Republican governors have promulgated conservative-friendly designations for June, such as \u201cNuclear Family Month,\u201d sometimes openly describing them as a counter to Pride. Other prominent Republican politicians, including Vice President JD Vance, criticized Major League Baseball \u2018s response to some San Francisco Giants players who added Bible verses to the rainbow-themed Pride Night caps they were issued.<\/p>\n<p>Against that backdrop, the NYC Pride March and the San Francisco Pride Parade are setting out to further their legacies as some of the world\u2019s largest and oldest such celebrations. <\/p>\n<p>Both trace their roots to events held in 1970 to commemorate the Stonewall rebellion on June 28, 1969, when patrons of a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn resisted a police raid and ended up kindling a wave of activism. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4327\">Pakistan\u2019s military says 3 soldiers were killed in militant attack in Karachi and vows retaliation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Stonewall Inn still is a bar; the Stonewall monument centers on a small park across the street, about half a mile (about 0.8 km) from the Pride March route at its closest point. <\/p>\n<p>Also set for Sunday in Manhattan is the newer Queer Liberation March, founded by activists who saw the Pride March as too corporate and official.<\/p>\n<p>This year, some transgender rights activists also pressured Pride organizers to bar some New York City hospitals\u2019 contingents from marching because the institutions announced in recent months that they would stop providing transgender youth treatments. The cutoff came amid funding threats from the Trump administration, and at least some of the hospitals also got federal Justice Department subpoenas for transgender patients\u2019 medical records. A judge has temporarily blocked the document demand.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage of Pride said it has been talking with the hospitals about the issue. The group also noted the parade contingents are organized by LGBTQ+ employee groups, not by the top administrators responsible for decisions about care. <\/p>\n<p>A message was sent to San Francisco Pride organizers about whether they faced similar questions.<\/p>\n<p>Other cities with Pride parades Sunday include Seattle, where a World Cup soccer match Friday took on a Pride dimension after the countries whose teams involved \u2014 Iran and Egypt \u2014 triedunsuccessfully to get the celebrations canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=4325\">Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes, threatens to halt talks to end the war<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride Month celebrations peak Sunday with big parades in New York, San Francisco and some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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