Tag Archives: gay Pride

ISRAEL: Jerusalem Police Reject Proposed Route For Gay Pride Parade

Jerusalem police have rejected the proposed route for this year’s gay pride parade, which was to culminate at the Knesset, where activists would honor the two people were murdered at a Tel Aviv LGBT youth center last year in a still unsolved shooting spree. Police reportedly rejected the route because it also passes by an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva. “The Jerusalem Police’s …

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ONTARIO: Pride Toronto Reverses Ban On Anti-Israeli Apartheid Group

After more than a month of controversy, protests, and threats of a boycott, Pride Toronto has reversed their ban on Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. But all of Pride Toronto’s event participants will now be required to sign an agreement to abide by the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. “This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, which has faced censorship and …

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Family Research Council Screams About Obama’s “Agenda Of Perversion”

Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council are stamping their widdle feet about the president’s hosting of a bunch of dirty homos at the White House. “Gay Pride Month” may be coming to an end, but we can’t say the same for the President’s pandering. At last night’s rainbow love fest, the same Barack Obama who, as a candidate, said …

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PhoboQuotable – Tim Wildmon

“It’s shameful that adults would abuse a brain-washed child in this way. He’s obviously just parroting the nonsense he’s been told by manipulative adults. For gay activists to trot out this child and make him the poster child for promoting unnatural sexual expression is a form of child abuse. “When you realize that the FDA won’t allow a male to …

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Open Thread Thursday

A lot of the biggest U.S. pride events are this weekend. Tell us about your plans and your traditions. If your city’s pride has already taken place, let us know what you did and how it went.

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MINNEAPOLIS: Anti-Gay Activists Given OK To Proselytize At Pride Festival

Twin Cities Pride is warring with the Minneapolis parks department over the decision to allow anti-gay activists on the grounds of their Pride festival, where the husband and wife team of Brian and Lois Johnson is expected to attempt to hand out bibles and shout about Jeebus. Festival organizers say they paid ten of thousands of dollars to secure the …

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Hillary Clinton On LGBT Pride Month

Here’s the full video to accompany the text excerpt from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech that I posted yesterday. It’s pretty great.

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LIVE VIDEO: Activists Meet Obama At White House For LGBT Pride Reception

Things are scheduled to begin at 6pm DC time. UPDATE: The president spoke for about ten minutes, during which he renewed his pledges to overturn DADT and DOMA, and to work towards the passage of ENDA. I’ll post a clip of his speech here once it goes up on the White House’s YouTube channel. What did you think? UPDATE II: …

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Hillary’s Deputy Eric Schwartz On Improving LGBT Asylum Requests

U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Eric Schwartz, spoke today about the State Department’s attempts to improve the handling of asylum requests by LGBT refugees. Schwartz was speaking at the State Department’s LGBT Pride Month reception and this video was posted to their official YouTube channel. RELATED: Good As You has Secretary Clinton’s Pride Month …

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Super Pride Swag Tuesday

The gay is hot and heavy in today’s special Pride edition of Swag Tuesday! Courtesy of Fly Life, first up for grabs is a pair of tickets to the Lilith Fair’s tour stop at the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey on July 31st, where Sarah McLaughlan, the Indigo Girls, Carly Simon, Cat Power and a host of other …

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American Family Association Attacks Home Depot For Gay Pride Participation

The American Family Association has launched an email and phone campaign against Home Depot because the fix-it giant hosted a crafts workshop for kids at Southern Maine Pride. To this end, Home Depot is basically encouraging the attendance of children at events which openly expose them to transvestites, cross-dressers, and homosexual activists. Unfortunately, Home Depot’s participation in the Southern Maine …

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CHICAGO: Hockey’s Stanley Cup Trophy To Be Hoisted At Gay Pride Parade

Representatives of the Chicago Blackhawks will bring their just-won Stanley Cup trophy to this year’s pride parade. Blackhawk defenseman Brent Sopel has volunteered to represent the team. “I am honored to do it,” said Sopel, who will be accompanied by wife, Kelly, and his four kids, Jacob, 12, Lyla, 8, Jayla, 6, and Paul, 20, whom they adopted three years …

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Ten Year-Old Will Phillips To Be Grand Marshal Of Arkansas Pride

Ten year-old Will Phillips, who made national news last year when he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance until LGBT people have full equality, will be the Grand Marshal of Northwest Arkansas Pride. “It’s wrong for anyone to be treated differently just because of the way they are born,” said Phillips, who declares himself as an ambassador for …

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Quote Of The Day – Eric Holder

“We have much to celebrate today. In the year since we last gathered, our nation – and the Justice Department – have taken steps to address some of the unique challenges faced by members of our country’s LGBT community. As you all know, up until last fall, there was not a single line in the nearly 225-year history of the …

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Constance McMillen Invited To White House LGBT Pride Reception

Lesbian teen Constance McMillen has been invited to join a select group of activists at a White House reception tomorrow to celebrate LGBT Pride Month. The White House confirmed Friday that Obama will host the event and is expected to deliver brief remarks. After the prom controversy, McMillen said, she faced a hostile environment from her peers and transferred out …

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Shock Jocks Give Finger To Gay Critics

It doesn’t appear that redneck shock jocks Rick & Bubba are much concerned about any advertiser boycott after mocking the president’s Pride Month proclamation. The video of their homophobic “biblical world view” has been made private on YouTube.

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SLIDESHOW: NYC Pride Rally

NYC Pride held its annual Rally at Central Park’s SummerStage yesterday where co-hosts Bruce Villanch and Vickie Shaw entertained the crowd in between performances by the Gay Men’s Chorus, MeShell Ndegeocello, Ari Gold, Billie Myers, the cast of Hair, and Martha Wash. Also featured was Lt. Dan Choi, who delivered a rousing MLK-esque speech, leading the crowd in chants of …

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Con Edison Celebrates Pride

From their official YouTube page.

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Watching The Defectives

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixth 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 …

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TRAILER: The Politics Of Pride

The Politics Of Pride has been making the festival rounds for several months and opens at San Francisco’s Frameline Festival on Sunday. Other dates here.

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