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.”
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Time to wrap it up. Only a few hours remaining for the month of June.
Can tell a limp wrist wrote the article.
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!
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! :)
....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...
Dang, it’s over. I was hoping for more parades and such.
There’s no such thing as LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Is it safe to enter public bathrooms yet?
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?
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.
They have a whole month while Veterans get one perhaps three days.
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/
No Gay Pride month in China and Russia . Just sayin’ ...
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”
YAYYYY...Mental Illness Month is OVAH!!
Now that we’ve had Black History month and Perversity month, can we move on to a White/Straight History Month?
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
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.
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