“Now we feel a bit pressured,” she said, adding they might “jump the gun a little sooner. New York City parade spectator Jackie English said she and her fiancee Dana had yet to set a wedding date, but have a new sense of urgency. “We will not live in a world, not in my city, where our rights are taken from us or rolled back,” said Lightfoot, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, and the first Black woman to hold the office. In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the top court ruling a “momentary setback” and said Sunday’s events were “an opportunity for us to not only celebrate Pride, but be resolved for the fight.” Organizers announced this weekend that a Planned Parenthood contingent would be at the front of the parade. Thousands of people - many decked in pride colors - lined the parade route through Manhattan, cheering as floats and marchers passed by. I think a lot of angry people, not even just women, angry men, angry women.” “I think it’s about making a point, rather than all the other years like how we normally celebrate it. “We’re here to make a statement,” said 31-year-old Mercedes Sharpe, who traveled to Manhattan from Massachusetts. The annual marches in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere took place just two days after one conservative justice on the Supreme Court signaled, in a ruling on abortion, that the court should reconsider the right to same-sex marriage recognized in 2015. NEW YORK (AP) - Pride parades kicked off in New York City and around the country Sunday with glittering confetti, cheering crowds, fluttering rainbow flags and newfound fears about losing freedoms won through decades of activism.