Other LGBT activists on the left, like GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis, agree. "Pride has always been a protest movement and a Resist movement and a challenge to the status quo," Stacy said. "Instead of celebrating diversity, it's the opposite of what Pride stands for."īut supporters of the Resist movement, like David Stacy, the government affairs director of the Human Rights Campaign advocacy group, said he was frustrated at the thought that this march shouldn't be partisan. "There's no way in heck that I would attend LA pride because it's a Resist march," said Roberts. Gina Roberts, a transgender woman from Los Angeles who served as a delegate at the 2016 Republican convention, said she was disappointed in the change to the Pride parade. "So it's a missed opportunity for all of us to have a break from the division and the anger." "I'm not discrediting people who have issues with the Trump administration, but my problem is that the Pride parade has always been political, but it's never been partisan," he said. Morphed into a Resist March to stand against the ideologies of a Trump presidency and how some of the members of the LGBT community fear his potential policies impact their lives. Matthew Craffey, a member of the conservative LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans, lives in Los Angeles, where he leads the local chapter. That is particularly true this year, as many marches are billed as "resistance" protests against the administration. She said she was happy to see Pride returning to its roots in protest.īut the month of June, which is celebrated as gay pride month, can be fraught for one subset of the LGBT community: Trump supporters. Troy King, a 47-year-old gay man from Atlanta, marched to continue to pressure politicians to stand up for his community's rights.Ĭorey Williams, a lesbian woman from D.C., smiled on the sidelines In Washington, D.C., people gathered in droves.
In more than 50 marches across the states, LGBT people and their allies gathered to stand in solidarity against the Trump administration over the weekend.