By Laurie Marhoefer, Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington. This month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will join gay pride marches in cities big and small. In many cities, pride marches are controversial. In some – like Moscow – they are even banned. But for many people in North America, parts of…
Photo: A kiss at the local Gay Pride march in Milan, on June 7 2008. Picture by Giovanni Dall’Orto.