As the month-long celebration of Pride month winds down, Sunday saw thousands of people dancing to club music and enjoying the festivities from New York all the way to San Francisco As the boisterous New York crowd danced down Fifth Avenue and made its way to Greenwich Village to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Today is about celebrating people who are themselves, their authentic selves and letting everyone know that this is a city full of love, not division, not hate," said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.San Antonio also celebrated its Pride parade Saturday night, with hundreds of people lining downtown streets. “The diverse dangers we are facing as an LGBTQ community and Pride organizers, while differing in nature and intensity, share a common trait: they seek to undermine our love, our identity, our freedom, our safety, and our lives.”Earlier Sunday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that would make the state a “safe haven” for transgender youth and forbid law enforcement agencies from providing information that could undermine the ability for a child to get gender-affirming care.NYC Mayor Adams made a similar move this week, issuing an executive order preventing city resources from being used to cooperate with out-of-state authorities in detaining anyone receiving gender-affirming care in the city.The Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ+ organization, reported 101 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents in the first three weeks of this month, about twice as many as in the full month of June last year. (With inputs from AP)

Source: Economic Times June 26, 2023 18:31 UTC