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PÅ‚ock, a city of 140,000 people about 100km north-west of Warsaw, in Poland, had a gay pride parade organized on Saturday. My wife and I didn't know about them when we organized our weekend getaway, so were a bit ticked off when we found out. We went to the local zoo for the 4 hours (side note - the city is definitely worth visiting as is the zoo). It turned out to be a bit of a non-event in my opinion. The gay mafia are targeting different cities in Poland to have their "pride marches". The one in PÅ‚ock was...

Just so you know and I know y'all were on pins and needles with concern (/s), the Austin Pride Parade is on as scheduled for Saturday 8-10 pm through downtown despite warnings of flooding. KEYE CBS news station has been assuring its viewers this morning and is proud they are the only local station covering it again.

UKIP has been banned from taking part in a gay pride parade over what organisers claim are safety fears – even though the party has thousands of LGBT members.Organisers at the event in London said they had to "wrestle with a difficult issue" when deciding whether or not to allow the party to enter the parade. The shock move comes despite Ukip's strong lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) members' wing – and the fact that David Coburn, their only Scottish MEP, is homosexual. Parade bosses said the decision was made to reject Ukip's application "in order to protect participants...

TORONTO - For a party this big, you need a giant flag. Patrick Markle, 46, sporting a large homemade rainbow flag, was among thousands at Nathan Phillips Square Friday evening to celebrate the kickoff to WorldPride, a 10-day celebration of the LGBTQ community. “My friends invited me last-minute to the flag-raising (earlier in the day at City Hall) and I’ll never be one to go without a little bit of spirit,” Markle said. “I couldn’t make a dress out of it and still look halfway decent, so I figured flag would be the best thing.” Markle, who has seen Pride...

NBA veteran center Jason Collins, the first active athlete in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues to come out as being gay, marched Saturday for nearly three miles in Boston's gay pride parade with U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University. The parade also featured former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank — the first sitting member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage — who also represented Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District before Kennedy. U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate seeking the seat once held by John Kerry, who stepped down...

An elected official in southern city is taking heat from churches over his decision to proclaim today, Saturday, June 19, as 'Gay Pride Day,' complete with a march downtown. The churches banded together for a protest/prayer service/counter-rally on Friday. Organizers of the counter-rally state that they do not intend to disrupt the 'gay pride' parade today nor be a part of hateful slurs against homosexuals. Instead, they claim that their message is to the city official, Mayor Junie White of Spartanburg, South Carolina. In spite of the fact that the city is located in a very conservative area of the...

After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the council to complain that the event had been allowed to go ahead. But instead of a simple acknowledgement, she received a letter warning her she might be guilty of a hate crime and that the matter had been passed to police. Two officers later turned up at the frightened grandmother's home and lectured her about her choice of words before telling her she would not be prosecuted Mrs Howe, 67, whose husband Peter is understood to be a Baptist minister, yesterday spoke of her shock at the...

Israeli Gays Hold First March in JerusalemBy Jon Immanuel JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli homosexuals, a few of the men in tight leather garb or women's clothes, marched through Jerusalem under heavy security on Friday in the biblical city's first gay pride parade. The rainbow flags for gay pride hoisted by the marchers faced protest placards held by religious Jews as the parade of a few hundred wound through the center of Jerusalem, holy to three monotheistic faiths which all oppose homosexuality. "What is this pride you talk about?" shouted a man wearing the dark suit and black skullcap which marked...