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LGBTQ+ Pride Month culminates with parades in NYC, San Francisco and beyond
The Associated Press ^ | June 30, 2024

Posted on 06/30/2024 3:53:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

NEW YORK (AP) — The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revelers to the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe.

The wide-ranging festivities functioned as both jubilant parties and political protests, as participants recognize the community’s gains while also calling attention to recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, such as bans on transgender health care, passed by Republican-led states.

Thousands of people gathered along New York’s Fifth Avenue to celebrate Pride. Floats cruised the street as Diane Ross’ “I’m Coming Out” played from loudspeakers. Pride flags filled the horizon, and signs in support of Puerto Rico, Ukraine and Gaza were visible in the crowd.

This year, tensions over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza also seeped into the celebrations, exposing divisions within a community that is often aligned on political issues. Protesters temporarily blocked the New York parade on Sunday, chanting: “Free, free, free Palestine!” Police eventually took some of them away.

Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted pride parades earlier in June in Boston, Denver, and Philadelphia. Several groups participating in marches Sunday said they would seek to highlight the victims of the war in Gaza, spurring pushback from supporters of Israel.

“It is certainly a more active presence this year in terms of protest at Pride events,” said Sandra Pérez, the executive director of NYC Pride. “But we were born out of a protest.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abominationmonth; culturewar; hamas; homosexualagenda; perverts
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1 posted on 06/30/2024 3:53:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Time to wrap it up. Only a few hours remaining for the month of June.


2 posted on 06/30/2024 3:58:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can tell a limp wrist wrote the article.


3 posted on 06/30/2024 4:04:01 PM PDT by politicket
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now we can celebrate straight people month in July.

Major celebrations are planned coast to coast with the governors of all fifty states leading them.

Not!


4 posted on 06/30/2024 4:05:54 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Gene Eric

Well my streak of never having seen or attended one of these remains intact! Every year sets a new personal best! Something to be proud of! :)


5 posted on 06/30/2024 4:07:01 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Gene Eric

....tell me again.....how many weeks are there in so-called “Pride [sic] Month”....?? it seems to go on forever and ever...I believe the end of June means nothing to the LGBTQWXYZ**++?? community....every month is “Pride [sic] Month” it seems...


6 posted on 06/30/2024 4:08:19 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dang, it’s over. I was hoping for more parades and such.


7 posted on 06/30/2024 4:23:29 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s no such thing as LGBTQ+ Pride Month.


8 posted on 06/30/2024 4:27:03 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is it safe to enter public bathrooms yet?


9 posted on 06/30/2024 4:28:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who are these wretched people thinking to erect any stronghold against the knowledge of Christ as if they can do anything to God’s elect? Shall their eternal shame become “pride” though they insist on calling it that?


10 posted on 06/30/2024 4:28:42 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In the current context of American politics, this debate should be irrelevant.

When people can’t pay for groceries and foreign entities threaten our borders, who gives a shit where anyone puts their dick or what clothes they think they should wear.

11 posted on 06/30/2024 4:31:31 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have a whole month while Veterans get one perhaps three days.


12 posted on 06/30/2024 4:39:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: politicket

JK Rowling (Harry Potter) refers to them as the “Gender Taliban”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/author-jk-rowling-hits-back-actor-david-tennant/


13 posted on 06/30/2024 4:42:04 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
priDE MONth
14 posted on 06/30/2024 4:43:42 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: SkyDancer

No Gay Pride month in China and Russia . Just sayin’ ...


15 posted on 06/30/2024 4:43:56 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: newfreep

Gender Taliban : definition

- A small, dysphoric, often militant, portion of society under the delusion that biological sex can be re-assigned simply by changing ones mind.

h/t “Pennsylvanian1”


16 posted on 06/30/2024 4:44:24 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

YAYYYY...Mental Illness Month is OVAH!!


17 posted on 06/30/2024 4:44:34 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now that we’ve had Black History month and Perversity month, can we move on to a White/Straight History Month?


18 posted on 06/30/2024 4:47:37 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So you say freak month is all over?

Stay tuned.

January, third Friday: International Fetish Day

February 12: National Freedom to Marry Day

February 25-29: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

March: Bisexual Health Awareness Month

March 1: Zero Discrimination Day

March 20-24: National LGBT Health Awareness Week

March 31: International Transgender Day Of Visibility

April 6: Asexuality Day

April 22: Day of Silence

April 24-30: International Lesbian Visibility Week

April 26 International Lesbian Visibility Day

May 7: International Family Equality Day

May 16: National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day

May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

May 19: Agender Pride Day

May 24: Pansexual & Panromantic Visibility Day

June: Pride Month

June 26: Anniversary of Sam-Sex Marriage Legalization

July 6: Omnisexual Visibility Day

July 10-16: Non-Binary Awareness Week

July 14: International Non-Binary Day

July 16: International Drag Day

September 17-23: Bisexual Awareness Week

September 23: Bisexual Visibility Day

October: LGBTQ History Month

October 8: International Lesbian Day

October 11: National Coming Out Day

October 18: International Pronoun Day

October 19: Spirit Day

October 22-28: Asexual Awareness Week

October 26: Intersex Awareness Day

November: Trans Awareness Month

November 5: Trans Parent Day or Transgender Parent Day

November 8: Intersex Day of Remembrance or Intersex

Solidarity Day November 12-18: Trans Awareness Week or Transgender Awareness Week

November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance

December 1: World AIDS Day

December 8: Pansexual Pride Day

December 10: Human (Homosexual) Rights Day

19 posted on 06/30/2024 4:48:30 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can we be done with this nonsense now?

Every time I log onto my work computer the home page features a new Alphabet Soup story. Please make it stop.


20 posted on 06/30/2024 4:50:26 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝)
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