Overview

• The annual march and festival celebrates the 10th anniversary of the event’s modern format alongside the 50th anniversary of the LGBTQ Center of Greater Cleveland.
• Organizers frame the gathering as both a commemoration of the movement’s protest roots and a mobilization against expanding state-level anti-LGBTQ legislation.
• Ohio’s House of Representatives inserted measures into its budget bill to restrict library materials on sexual orientation, prohibit pride flags and withdraw funding for gender-affirming youth services.
• The Ohio Senate’s budget proposal would require driver’s licenses to list only a person’s “biological sex,” signaling further constraints on gender identity recognition.
• The American Civil Liberties Union is tracking 592 anti-LGBTQ bills nationwide—111 defeated and 59 enacted—while local activists push for state statutes to enshrine marriage equality and ban conversion therapy.