‘It’s infuriating’: queer New Yorkers react to supreme court’s LGBTQ+ ruling
Days after Pride celebration mood near historic Stonewall Inn has changed: Who is to say this will stop at queerness?'
Along New York's Christopher Street in New York's West Village, which last weekend saw the largest Pride celebration in the country, there are still fragments of rainbow confetti in sidewalk crevices. But the mood on Friday, hours after the US supreme court dealt a major blow to LGBTQ+ rights, no longer aligned with those festivities.
Stasha Wyskiel, at the bar of the landmark Stonewall Inn, said her community was under attack: It's interesting we're still calling our parades celebrations and not marches, because I think we're going to return to making clear how under duress our community is in the United States and in places around the world."
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