After a pandemic break, Pride events returned to many cities around the world on Sunday.
The streets were once again filled with celebrations and parades, but many others were celebrated with drastically different moods.
Here’s a look at how Pride was marked around the world:
Celebrations in Canada
The Toronto Pride parade returned Sunday after a two-year hiatus for COVID-19.
The city center was full of tens of thousands of partygoers and participants. The festivities are expected to last into the evening, with outdoor concerts planned along sections of Church Street in the gay village.
Sherwin Modeste, executive director of Pride Toronto, says it’s the crowning event of the weekend festival and the culmination of months of planning.
(Evan Mitsui / CBC) (Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press) (Evan Mitsui / CBC) (Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press)
Parades, protests in the US
Thousands of people (many dressed in the colors of Pride) lined the route of the parade through Manhattan, cheering as floats and protesters passed by.
The first New York Pride March, then called Christopher Street Liberation Day March, was held in 1970 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, a spontaneous street uprising sparked by a police raid on a gay bar in Manhattan.
That spirit of protest came to life again on Sunday, and many of the parade drew attention to abortion rights following Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. 50 years.
(Brendan McDermid / Reuters) (Jeenah Moon / Reuters)
In San Francisco, some protesters and spectators carried placards condemning the court’s abortion sentence.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was riding in a convertible holding a hammer and a rainbow fan, said the large turnout was a recognition that Americans support gay rights.
The first march in San Francisco was in 1972 and has since been held every year, except during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Carlos Barria / Reuters) (Carlos Barria / Reuters)
LGBT leaders fear the Supreme Court decision will jeopardize personal freedom beyond the right to abortion. In a concurring opinion, Judge Clarence Thomas wrote that the court could reconsider other precedents, specifically mentioning sentences protecting rights to contraception, same-sex privacy, and gay marriage.
In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, seen second from the left in the first photo below, described the upper court ruling as a “momentary setback” and said Sunday’s events were “an opportunity for us not only to celebrate pride but to resolve the struggle. “
“We will not live in a world, not in my city, where our rights are taken away from us or revoked,” said Lightfoot, the first openly gay mayor of Chicago and the first black woman to hold office.
(Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Images) (Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP / Getty Images)
Arrests in Turkey
Dozens of people were detained in central Istanbul after city authorities banned a Pride march.
Previously, Turkey had been one of the few Muslim-majority countries to allow the Pride marches, but the country’s largest city has banned the march since 2015. However, large crowds gather each year to mark the end. of Pride Month.
Organizers said more than 100 people were arrested Sunday. Images on social media showed people being picked up and boarded buses.
(Kemal Aslan / AFP / Getty Images) (Emrah Gurel / The Associated Press)
Dol to Norway
The Prime Minister of Norway, shown in the first photo below, and members of the royal family joined the villains in a memorial service for the victims of a shooting while the capital was celebrating its annual Pride Festival .
A gunman opened fire in the nightlife district of central Oslo early Saturday, killing two men and wounding more than 20 people in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terrorist act”.
The capital’s Pride parade was scheduled for Saturday, but was canceled. Police investigators said it was unclear whether hatred of people based on sexual orientation and gender identity motivated the attack.
(Javad Parsa / NTB / The Associated Press) (Sergei Grits / The Associated Press)
Demands for inclusion in India
Along with the celebrations, demands for inclusion were seen in a Pride parade in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Marriage rights, the right to adoption, the right to property and better surrogacy laws were some of the demands of the attendees.
Same-sex relationships are considered taboo by many in socially conservative India, and while they no longer carry the previous sentence of up to 10 years in prison, other rights, such as gay marriage, are likely to be elusive. .
(Arun Sankar / AFP / Getty Images) (Arun Sankar / AFP / Getty Images)