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"If you look at their prioritisation, we're really low on it," she said. She noted that Trump, breaking from the practice of Barack Obama, has declined to issue a proclamation in honour of Pride Month, and that the Trump administration has deleted questions about sexual orientation from planned federal surveys. A man lays down 50 roses to honor each victim of the gay Orlando night club shooting as people gather outside of the Stonewall Inn as a vigil is held following the massacre. Activists in Casper, Wyoming, planned that city's first-ever pride parade.Īmong the activist leaders on hand in Washington was Sarah Kate Ellis, president of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which monitors media coverage of the LGBT community. More than 1,00,000 people were expected to turn out in Los Angeles where the annual Pride Parade was renamed the ResistMarch. Roughly 100 marches and rallies were planned across the US, from Portland, Maine, and Boston to Anchorage, Alaska, and Honolulu. Brandon Joyce carries a sign of remembrance for mass shooting victims in Orlando. By Winston Ross On 6/26/16 at 6:14 PM EDT. "It's an opportunity to tell everyone we're still here, and we're not going away at all," he said. Guns: Pride Marchers Protest After Orlando Massacre. "It made the connection between the physical violence of guns and the political attacks on our community."Īlso marching, and singing freedom songs along the way, was Gregory Elfers of Teaneck, New Jersey, who was with fellow members of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. "The arrack on Pulse really struck me hard," he said. He carried a sign that included the names of all the Pulse victims. LA gay pride parade: man detained with arsenal of weapons before event.
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Monday is the anniversary of the mass shooting a year ago in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people - mostly Latinos - at Pulse, a gay nightclub.Īmong the marchers in Washington was Gil Mendez, a Puerto Rican native who travelled with his partner all the way from San Francisco to join the parade. "We're here, we're queer, get that Cheeto out of here," was among the chants directed at Trump.įor the LGBT community nationwide, it's an emotional time. Throngs of marchers, many thousands strong, paraded past the White House and toward the Capitol, trailing behind a giant rainbow flag near the head of the procession. The activists also complain that Trump, although he campaigned as a potential ally of gays and lesbians, has stocked his administration with many foes of LGBT-rights advances, including Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.