GOP Governors Rebrand June in 5 States to Counter Pride Month

3 articles · Updated · NBC News · Jun 4

Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Utah and Arkansas have given June alternative labels including Nuclear Family Month, Strong Families Month and Fidelity Month, broadening a state-level push that supporters openly frame as an answer to Pride.
Tennessee’s measure defines the nuclear family as one husband, one wife and their children, while Alabama’s proclamation says fathers are the head of the household; Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ account shared a post calling it “counter-programming Pride Month.”
The campaign is spreading beyond governors’ proclamations: lawmakers in at least four other GOP-led states have introduced Fidelity Month legislation, backed by a movement tied to Princeton professor Robert P. George.
The June clash lands as Pride observances mark a tradition dating to 1970 after Stonewall, and as a new poll shows two decades of rising acceptance of same-sex relationships has flattened, largely because Republican opposition has grown.