Pride events also took place in the northern city of Haifa and Beersheva in the south, with all four taking place under the strapline "the revolution is not over". The parade began with several hundred people observing a minute's silence in Banki's memory and that of "all victims of homophobia". Police arrested 27 people before Sunday's event "to avoid any incidents", a spokesman said. On July 30, 2015, teenager Shira Banki was stabbed to death during the parade by ultra-Orthodox Jew Yishai Shlissel, who also wounded six others. In Tel Aviv, home to the Middle East's biggest annual Pride parade, revellers gathered at Rabin Square for a concert featuring local stars including transgender Eurovision winner Dana International.Īn hour's drive away, police deployed in force to secure the parallel Jerusalem event, just shy of five years after a participant was murdered by a Jewish religious extremist. "I have some very personal, very unique to me moments when Cincinnati really became this welcoming supportive place," Obergefell said.Thousands took part in muted LGBT events across Israel on Sunday as the usually larger gatherings were cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions. Both men graduated from UC and considered Cincinnati to be home turf. Obergefell and his late partner, John Arthur's initial case combined with others from Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee before finally arriving in Washington, D.C. Their marriage deserves to be recognized,'" said Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the case that ultimately would legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. "In that very first hearing in federal district court, the city attorney stood up and said, 'Your Honor, we agree with John and Jim. In June 2015 - after years moving through federal circuit courts, 22 years after Article XII passed, and 46 years after the uprising at Stonewall Inn - a couple of University of Cincinnati alumni took their fight for marriage equality all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Parades would pass by City Hall on Plum Street downtown.ĬINCINNATI - Jim Obergefell, 48, sits with a framed photo from his wedding day with John Arthur July 11, 2013.
In the years to follow, that celebration grew and moved around the city's neighborhoods, from Northside to Clifton and back again. It only took four years for the movement to reach the Queen City when Cincinnati held its first Pride celebration on Fountain Square in 1973.
The first recognized Pride march took place in New York City on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, according to the Library of Congress. It's widely considered the tipping point in the fight for what today are considered LGBTQIA+ rights. The ensuing uprising became the spark that lit the Pride fire across the U.S. (AP Photo/File)īut this time the bar and its clientele had had it and decided to fight back. As Pride weekend approaches, the recent decision by organizers of New York City's event to ban LGBTQ police officers from marching in future parades while wearing their uniforms has put a spotlight on issues of identity and belonging, power and marginalization.For some, cops shouldn't have a visible presence at a march that commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising, sparked by a police raid on a gay bar. 31,1970 file photo, an NYPD officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man during a confrontation in Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march in New York.