Pride month here with a common theme: defiance. No matter the string of anti-gay actions by Tennessee's Republican-controlled state government or threats by avowed neo-Nazis plotting in the shadows.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents and their allies celebrated in even some of the state's deepest red counties while taking heart from a federal court ruling this weekend that struck down the state's new anti-drag show law as unconstitutional.