Pride Month celebrations have begun across the U.S. with parades and parties in major cities and small towns, blending festive events with protest roots as LGBTQ+ communities face renewed political attacks. The events trace back to the Stonewall uprising and continue today with a mix of celebrations, human rights summits, and corporate and local support shifts amid policy rollbacks on transgender rights and diversity initiatives.
Pride Month kicks off nationwide with parades from major metros to small towns, blending rainbow celebration with protest roots as LGBTQ+ communities face renewed political attacks on rights and inclusion.
From Stonewall’s 1969 uprising to today’s golf tournaments, human rights summits and bar crawls, Pride events in Los Angeles, New York and global cities mix festival energy with defiance. As courts weigh transgender military bans and states restrict gender-affirming care, some corporations retreat from sponsorship while local businesses step up to keep hometown Pride celebrations funded and visible. Pride month has begun across the U.S., bringing parades and parties to big cities and small towns to celebrate LGBTQ+ people.
The rainbow-filled festivities this year come as President Trump’s administration is pushing policies to roll back the rights of transgender people and curtail recognition of diversity, equity and inclusion. Jordan Braxton, co-president of USA Prides, an organization of Pride groups, says the events have always been rooted in protest. The first Pride celebrations came in protest The event has its roots in the violent police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on June 28, 1969.
The raid sparked a series of public protests and catalyzed the gay rights movement at a time when many LGBTQ+ people kept their identities to themselves. To mark the first anniversary in June 1970, there were marches in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. President Bill Clinton proclaimed June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in the U.S. with an executive order in 1999. Since then, Democratic presidents have signed similar orders each year they’ve been in office.
Republican presidents, including Trump, have not. Parades and street fairs headline Pride celebrations. But there’s more to them than that. San Francisco Pride includes a golf tournament and a human rights summit.
Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis has a bar crawl, and Central Alabama Pride in Birmingham features a singing competition. This year’s celebrations include main events in Los Angeles on June 14, Chicago on June 20 and 21, San Francisco on June 27 and New York on June 28. There are events this month in international cities including Paris, Rome, São Paulo and Tokyo.
While those events have been around for more than 50 years, this year marks just the sixth edition of a formal Pride celebration in Haddon Township, N.J. A parade is scheduled for Thursday, and a community night is Friday. Isis Petrie Williams, president of Haddon Township Pride, said that the 2,000 to 3,000 people in the parade will include local high school marching bands, youth sports teams and many people passing out candy.
“We decided to have a radical expression of joy, acceptance and love, centered on exposure and community connection,” she said. For years, policies across the U.S. were generally becoming more welcoming to LGBTQ+ people, including in June 2015 when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalized same-sex marriage nationally. The Supreme Court in March ruled against a ban on “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, saying it violated free speech protections.
During Pride Month last year, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender kids. This decade, most Republican-controlled state governments have passed similar restrictions on gender-affirming care, barred transgender women and girls from female sports competitions, and restricted which restrooms transgender people can use in schools — and, in some cases, other public places. On Monday, one of those policies suffered a blow when a court ruled that the military illegally banned transgender troops.
Last year, some big corporations stopped contributing to Pride events. Braxton said she’s noticed some investment firms pulling back this year, following companies such as Anheuser-Busch and Walmart last year.
“It’s all because of Trump’s DEI policies. Corporations are afraid that if they sponsor a Pride event, they are going to get scrutinized from this administration, which is completely sad,” she said. That’s been true for New Jersey’s Haddon Township Pride. Williams said the Coast Guard is the only major national sponsor that’s abandoned the event in recent years.
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