Saturday's Color Fairhope with Pride celebration was postponed because of stormy weather. That has yet to be rescheduled, but Pride Month is young and there is an itinerary of other area celebrations to sample.

The monthlong global celebration began with Gay Pride Week in late June 1970, a public celebration that marked the first anniversary of the violent police raid at New York's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. At a time when LGBTQ+ people largely kept their orientation quiet, the June 28, 1969, raid sparked a series of protests and galvanized a movement for rights and protections.

"There are a lot of LGBTQ+ people, especially young people, who go through their lives feeling like there isn't support for them. They hear the negative messages and wonder if there is a place for them to belong. And I feel like what Color Fairhope with Pride does is it creates a space for them to be celebrated, to be loved," said Prism United Executive Director Corey Harvard.

Pride’s hallmark rainbow-laden parades and festivals celebrate the progress the LGBTQ+ civil rights have made.

In Florida this spring, a settlement of challenges to a “Don’t Say Gay” law clarifies that teachers may have pictures on their desks of their same-sex partners and books with LGBTQ+ themes. It also says books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes can remain in campus libraries and gay-straight alliance chapters at schools need not be forced underground.

But in Alabama, there have been setbacks. A court ruling earlier this year allows enforcement of a law passed in 2022 making it a felony for physicians to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to transgender children. Statewide right-wing efforts to censor library books target literature featuring LGBTQ+ chacaters and themes.

"We haven't seen anything quite like this before," Harvard told NBC News in the wake of complaints about the day's activities at a recent Fairhope City Council meeting.

"We are seeing a very pronounced movement against the LGBTQ community legislatively. And we're seeing evidence of that locally." Harvard said.

Despite Alabama lawmakers' ploys to whitewash Black history, Baldwin County Democrats will be celebrating the legacy of African Americans.

In a state where workers still have a choice whether to clebrate Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis' birthday, event organizers say Juneteenth is not an exclusively Black holiday..

“It’s like the Fourth of July," Germaine Washington said

"It clebrates freedom and equity. Juneteenth is not only Black history. It's American history."

Just as Southerners didn't want enslaved Americans to know they had been freed, Alabama lawmakers are now trying to keep us all from remembering slavery ever happened at all.

Here's the Juneteenth story:

It was June 19 , 1865 - two and half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery - that Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with word that the enslaved were now free.

 Until General Lee surrendered, there were no Union troops in Texas to enforce the new Executive Order, according to historical accounts on the Juneteenth website. Folklore has it one messenger bringing news of freedom was murdered on his trip to Texas. Some say federal troops stood down so slave owners could reap one last cotton harvest of free labor.

 This year’s Juneteenth celebration – Baldwin County’s fifth - will shine a spotlight on economic freedom, Washington said. It will showcase Black-owned business and online enterprises.

There will be music, food trucks, kids activities and business booths. Most importantly - there will be voter registration.

So go. Register. Get your friends to register. And VOTE.

Changing our lawmakers is the only way to change the backward trajectory of Alabama and the nation.