Midwesterners celebrated Pride Month amid heightened anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, new laws

Legislatures in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, passed new laws decried by LGBTQ+ communities and their allies. Still, the month of June brought exuberant Pride celebrations around the region.

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