Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ communities across the United States this weekend took on a tone of outrage following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion and a wave of anti-transgender legislation.
The weekend's Pride events, which included Sunday parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Denver, came on the heels of fervent protests in some of the same cities since Friday, when abortion rights supporters took to the streets to decry the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.
LGBTQ leaders fear the ruling endangers personal freedom beyond abortion rights. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Court might reconsider other precedents, mentioning specifically the rulings protecting the rights to contraception, same-sex intimacy and gay marriage.