{"id":280280,"date":"2026-06-28T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280280\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:00:07","slug":"lgbtq-pride-parades-set-for-sunday-in-nyc-and-san-francisco-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280280\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Pride Parades Set for Sunday in NYC and San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pride Month celebrations peak Sunday with big parades in New York<\/a>, San Francisco and some other cities on the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising<\/a>, which accelerated and transformed the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. <\/p>\n

Pride events often mix celebration and calls to action, reflecting the political winds, cultural climate and news around LGBTQ+ rights. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs LGBTQIA+ events and symbols are being erased, it\u2019s vital that our community have safe spaces to show up and march to make clear: We are here,\u201d Chris Piedmont, a spokesperson for New York parade organizers Heritage of Pride, said in a statement Friday. \u201cWe will not be erased.\u201d<\/p>\n

Against that backdrop, the NYC Pride March and the San Francisco Pride Parade are setting out to further their legacies as some of the world’s largest and oldest such celebrations. <\/p>\n

Both trace their roots to events held in 1970 to commemorate the Stonewall rebellion on June 28, 1969, when patrons of a New York gay bar called the Stonewall Inn<\/a> resisted a police raid and ended up kindling a wave of activism. <\/p>\n

The Stonewall Inn still is a bar; the Stonewall monument centers on a small park across the street, about half a mile (about 0.8 km) from the Pride March route at its closest point. <\/p>\n

This year, some transgender rights activists also pressured Pride organizers to bar some New York City hospitals’ contingents from marching because the institutions announced in recent months that they would stop providing transgender youth treatments<\/a>. The cutoff came amid funding threats<\/a> from the Trump administration, and at least some of the hospitals also got federal Justice Department subpoenas for transgender patients’ medical records. A judge has temporarily blocked<\/a> the document demand.<\/p>\n

Heritage of Pride said it has been talking with the hospitals about the issue. The group also noted the parade contingents are organized by LGBTQ+ employee groups, not by the top administrators responsible for decisions about care. <\/p>\n

A message was sent to San Francisco Pride organizers about whether they faced similar questions.<\/p>\n

Other cities with Pride parades Sunday include Seattle, where a World Cup soccer match Friday took on a Pride dimension<\/a> after the countries whose teams involved \u2014 Iran and Egypt \u2014 tried<\/a>unsuccessfully<\/a> to get the celebrations canceled.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 The\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n

Photos You Should See \u2013 June 2026<\/p>\n

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