Pride Month is starting to show its colors worldwide as festivities start today. What to know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, leading to restrictive abortion laws in most GOP-controlled states, LGBTQ+ advocates are worried about losing ground too, said Kevin Jennings, CEO of nonprofit civil rights organization Lambda Legal.
59% : In 1999, President Bill Clinton proclaimed June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Pride's hallmark rainbow-laden parades and festivals celebrate the progress the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement has made.
50% : Greece this year legalized same-sex marriage, one of three dozen nations around the world to do so, and a similar law approved in Estonia in June 2023 took effect this year.
38% : In the U.S. in April, a federal appeals court ruled North Carolina and West Virginia's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.
37% : Progress such as the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide could be lost without political and legal vigilance, Jennings said.

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