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“This Sunday, as every fourth Sunday in June, the streets of New York will fill with prideful marchers celebrating Pride Month. There will be similar marches, too, in cities around the country. Sunday marks the forty-third year since the uprising in a Greenwich Village bar called Stonewall that supposedly started the modern gay revolution. The myth is that a few …

Via press release from GLAAD: JCPenney is continuing to show support for the community. This weekend the two dads featured in their ad, Cooper Smith and Todd Koch, will be walking alongside JCPenney employees in the NYC Pride March this weekend. Cooper told GLAAD: “When we were asked by JCPenney’s LGBT employee group to be part of their float at …

Somebody’s not gonna like this! (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

“Open homosexuality has been enacted and in less than a year the military is celebrating Gay Pride Month. This downward progression was easy to forecast and I fear the worst is yet to be seen in this matter. The military is actually going to celebrate the fact that two men have sex as though one of them is a woman! …

“OccuPride is not out to shut down Pride. We love Pride, and many of us are involved in a number of ways with the event and the organization this year. That said, Pride is a lot of things to a lot of people. Its historical roots are a radical action centered around Queer Liberation, not celebrating consumer assimilation. We’re choosing …

As I reported yesterday, a subset of Occupy SF plans to protest at the gay pride parade. Today the creator of the OccuPride NYC event page on Facebook called it quits. He writes: I have decided not to march in OccuPride… Go figure.. I created the event and this page! I no longer have any joy left in me to …

Elaine Donnelly is pissed. Hurray! And what kind of effect will such celebrations have on people of faith in the military, including chaplains? “Zero tolerance,” Donnelly said. ” … If you don’t agree, you can end your military career. A Coast Guard [member] initially lost his job for merely inquiring about privacy. Military LGBT law works to stifle and end …

Travelers at JFK will get a special gay pride treat tomorrow, courtesy of American Airlines. The Advocate reports: The cast of Priscilla, the musical from Bette Midler based on the 1994 Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, will perform musical numbers free Thursday at 3 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. The numbers include renditions of “Like a …

Evan Hurst writes at Truth Wins Out: This is John King, from savewhitepeople.com, pleading with the people at the Kentuckiana Gay Pride Parade to save white people by not being so gay all the time. He is very upset! At one point, a lesbian comes to talk to him and he then complains to the camera that he “just got …

Cute bit. Naughty language.(Via Towleroad)

This time it’s for Madrid Pride. I ain’t mad at him.

A subset of Occupy San Francisco calling itself OccuPride has vowed to disrupt this Sunday’s gay pride parade. SFist has a quote from an organizer: [W]e shouldn’t be deifying companies and politicians that actively work against SF Pride’s theme of GLOBAL EQUALITY. Don’t forget Willie Brown, the Lifetime Grand Marshall is famous for saying ‘anyone who doesn’t make $50,000 a …

“Embarrassed” is winning. Snork!

Join us at the southwest corner of Christopher and Gay this Sunday for a mini-JMG meetup to watch the Pride parade. We’ve marched for the last few years but have really been missing actually seeing the parade. The parade is scheduled to step off at noon and should reach “the gayest corner in town” by 1pm or so.

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This clip comes from a Canadian site whose description says: The Size Doesn’t Matter (SDM) campaign is a cutting-edge social media experience that includes videos, an interactive website and promotional give-aways. Aimed at highlighting the multitude of Israel’s accomplishments and contributions in a new, fun and attractive way, this campaign has quickly become Canada’s most successful of its kind, reaching …

Judging by last year’s party, this Friday’s gay pride Blowoff at the Highline Ballroom will be an explosion of furry insanity. Advance tickets recommended, this one will definitely sell out.

Literally! (Tipped by JMG reader Rian)

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the eighth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …