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> ... Can't connect faggots to abortions and women. Women have to make a choice.

NEW YORK � This was not how Daria Walcott, 39, wanted to spend
the Friday night before Pride weekend � sweaty and anguished,
crowded shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of other roaring
protesters. Originally, she was going to stay home in Harlem,
resting up before she�d �dance it out,� as she put it, at
Sunday�s joyous annual Pride March downtown. But now, here she
was, carrying a hastily made handwritten poster-board sign:
�They Won�t Stop at Roe.�

�This felt important,� Walcott said of her decision to attend
Friday�s impromptu protest. The Supreme Court �seems to think
that everything is on the table,� said Walcott, who is bisexual,
as protesters around her shouted profanity-laced chants that
name-checked Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
�Gay rights, interracial marriage, same-sex marriage: All of
those things now seem to be on the table.�

Here, in the city at the center of the country�s biggest LGBTQ
population, the court�s decision Friday morning to overturn Roe
v. Wade had come just as many were gearing up for what has
become, over the course of five decades, an ecstatic, month-long
celebration of community and identity, culminating in a jubilant
weekend. Suddenly, less than 48 hours before one of the world�s
biggest annual Pride marches, if not the biggest, they were
dealing not only with the end to abortion access across parts of
the country, but also Justice Clarence Thomas�s opinion implying
that same-sex relationships, same-sex marriage and even access
to contraception could be next in the crosshairs. It was the
right hook many feared had been coming. The celebration had
turned into a fight.

And yet, the celebration has always been a fight.

�Pride is always political,� said Jenny Romaine, 59, who was
carrying a sign reading �Dyke Zombie 4 Abortion Access. Be Gay �
Eat the Law!� and had draped herself, fabulously, in pink tulle,
with pink claws and a fake eye popping out of her face for
Saturday�s Dyke March. She�d whipped the whole thing up as soon
as the decision dropped. �The queers work fast,� she said.

Switching gears to protest the �atrocious act of political
violence� that is the end of Roe, she said, was natural. Pride
for Romaine is a holiday with rituals meant to honor the work of
�ancestors,� who in 1969 rioted against police raids on
Stonewall Inn, then took to the streets to demonstrate strength
in numbers.

Across the city, Pride weekend didn�t look all that different
than it has over the past couple of decades: rainbow flags,
fairy wings, queer cheerleading squads, bare breasts, revealing
chaps, partygoers laughing about body-glitter woes while in line
for the bathrooms at West Village bars, a topless dancer called
Mary Magdalene in a leather devil�s costume waving a sign
reading �Sex Work,� and Black drag queens lip-syncing past
midnight to cheers and we�re-not-worthy bows in a church on
Christopher Street.

But the tenor did feel different. A Pride rally that overlapped
with Friday�s abortion rights protest was so sparsely attended
that when the few people who did show up moved their lawn chairs
into the shade, the area in front of the stage was left empty.

At Saturday�s Dyke March, Yanin Martinez, 32, said she had cried
when the decision came down. As someone who�s queer, �I may not
have an unplanned pregnancy through a partner,� but it all comes
down to a lack of bodily autonomy, she said.

Beyond that, she wants to get married and cries every time she
thinks about the possibility of that right also being taken
away. �I�m first-generation Mexican American. My parents fought
so hard to get here, and I�m like, �I kind of want to leave, you
guys! I think you made the wrong choice!� �

Stupid faggots.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/06/26/pride-
weekend-new-york-abortion/