San Francisco Pride Parade returns after 2-year hiatus

Pride parades kicked off around the U.S. Sunday with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags and newfound fears about losing freedoms won through decades of activism.

The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere took place just two days after one conservative justice on the Supreme Court signaled, in a ruling on abortion, that the court should reconsider the right to same-sex marriage recognized in 2015.

Dancers and musicians in colourful costumes were among the many who took part in San Francisco's parade, performing to the huge crowds as they made their way through the city.

San Francisco's first Pride march was in 1972 and had been held every year since, except during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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