Take a look at all of the rainbow splendor from this year's global Pride celebration.ġ) San Francisco, United States: (Above) A group of marchers walk during the Pride parade in San Francisco, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau even wore rainbow socks to a parade in Toronto on June 25.
The decisionsby the Mayor and by SF Pridehave sparked controversy in. Parades and protests filled streets in major United States cities this weekend like San Francisco and New York, the latter of which witnessed the birth of the modern gay rights movement during the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, when LGBT bar patrons violently fought off police coming to arrest them at the Stonewall Inn.īut revelers in places as far-flung as Portugal, Israel, and Mexico also celebrated and remembered the long struggle for LGBT equality this month, and promised to continue fighting for LGBT rights in the future. TikTok video from The San Francisco Standard (sfstandard): 'This morning, SF Mayor London Breed announced that she won’t be marching in this year’s Pride Parade due to a ban on uniformed police officers that dates back to a 2019 incident between cops and protestors. The colors of the rainbow flag have flown high over cities and countries around the world this month in celebration of Pride, the annual monthlong celebration of LGBT and queer-identified individuals.
