Midwesterners celebrated Pride Month amid heightened anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, new laws kcur.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kcur.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
LGBTQ community leaders in St. Louis said the event provides an opportunity to show solidarity among queer people and demonstrate that they will not be erased from society.