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Red states push conservative rebrands of Pride month in backlash to LGBTQ+ celebrations

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Parade participants wave to spectators during the Nashville Pride parade on 24 June 2023. Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

June is widely marked as gay Pride month – when LGBTQ+ communities march to protest discrimination and celebrate their identities in the month that the modern US gay liberation movement was born out of the 1969 uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn – although not so much in certain Republican-led states this year.

Some Republican governors have suddenly come up with alternative labels for the month, which both supporters and opponents view as counterprogramming.

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