What We’re Reading: NYC Pride Edition!

The biggest weekend of Pride season has come and gone! With Pride celebrations this weekend in cities from New York City to San Francisco, we had a lot of Pride-related news to read this morning:

• The New York Times has a photo essay of New York Pride in all its glory.
• Saint Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in New York marched in this year’s parade — like they have for years — with one big difference. They carried a blank banner in deference to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s order that they keep their name out of the spotlight. Members of the marching delegation did, however, still wear T-shirts with their church’s name on them:
  
• One veteran of the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn sat out this year’s parade. Storme DeLarverie, 89, who was a bouncer and drag performer in the 1960s and 1970s reflected on her history of activism with a reporter from the New York Times.