LGBTQ Americans Worry for Their Rights After Roe Reversal
- Weekends’ pride events take on new tone after abortion ruling
- Revelry mixes with activism aimed at protecting civil rights
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Amid the revelry at the weekend’s gay-pride events, there was an undercurrent of apprehension. Members of the LGBTQ community are growing worried that the hard-fought legal rights gained over the past two decades could be ripped away.
At boisterous gatherings from New York to Houston to San Francisco, attendees expressed dismay about the Supreme Court’s move to end the right to abortion and what it might mean for other issues. The decision awakened fears that the right to marry and the right to same-sex intimacy could be the next target for conservative judges.