Many fear LGBTQ rights will be the Supreme Court's next target
The OC Pride parade was short and sweet, with a procession of rainbow-adorned floats, dancing revelers and banner-waving activists filing past downtown Santa Ana’s turn-of-the-century storefronts in about half an hour.take stock of the rights and freedoms that fellow members of the LGBTQ community have struggled for so long to secure and also how quickly Supreme Court justices and lawmakers can snatch them all away.
. The 5-4 decision was a sweeping rebuke of reproductive rights that could have far-reaching implications. Despite those concerns, the mood at the parade remained festive as hundreds of people lined the streets and shimmied to songs blaring from loudspeakers whose lyrics were all about uplift, defiance and embracing who you are even when the world rejects you.As a Black man in America, I’ve always struggled to embrace a country that promotes the ideals of justice and equality but never fully owns up to its dark history of bigotry, inequality and injustice.
Gloria Gaynor gave voice to the LGBTQ’s battle against hate and discrimination as she sang the chorus to her anthem “I Will Survive.”
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