Along New York’s Christopher Street in the West Village neighborhood 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.”
