Ahead of New York Pride Parade, Worries About L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Jubilant marchers are set to fill the streets of Manhattan on Sunday for the New York City Pride March, but the shadow of gathering storm clouds — both literal and metaphorical — was unmistakable.
The march, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riot widely viewed as spurring the modern L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement, is the largest of its kind in the United States, with 75,000 marchers and roughly two million spectators, according to organizers.
The event is even now broadcast on network television, a reflection of the fact that public support for L.G.B.T.Q. people has never been higher, coming in between 60 and 70 percent in recent polls.
But backlash to those gains has grown since same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in 2015. In recent years, each successive Pride Month has seemed to go on in defiance of new and ever greater challenges to the L.G.B.T.Q.
