NYC, San Francisco and other U.S. cities cap Pride Month with a mix of party and protest

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco.

Pride celebrations typically weave politics and protest together with colorful pageantry, but this year's iterations took a decidedly more defiant stance as Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, have sought to roll back LGBTQ friendly policies.

The theme of the festivities in Manhattan was, appropriately, "Rise Up: Pride in Protest." San Francisco's Pride theme was "Queer Joy is Resistance," while Seattle was simply "Louder."

Lance Brammer, a 56-year-old teacher from Ohio attending his first Pride parade in New York, said he felt "validated" as he marveled at the sheer size of the city's celebration, the nation's oldest and largest.

"With the climate that we have politically, it just seems like they're trying to do away with the whole LGBTQ community, especially the trans community," he said wearing a vivid, multicolored shirt. "And it just shows that they've got a fight ahead of them if they think that they're going to do that with all of these people here and all of the support."

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lgbtq-pride-month-party-protest-rcna215919


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