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…
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Gay Couple’s Pride Flashback Photo Collage Goes Viral
Nicholas Cardello and Kurt English shot the photo on the left 24 years ago at the 1993 March on Washington and recreated it with the one on the right at this year’s D.C.’s LGBTQ march. The photo set was posted to Reddit this week and has…
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NYPD Officers’ League to Honor Twerking Cop Michael Hance
The Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) chapter of the New York City police department will honor recently deceased officer Michael Hance, who starred in a viral video from 2015 as he enthusiastically danced with a Pride parade participant, during its…
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Anti-Gay Protestors Clash With Cops At Pride Parade in Kiev
Thousands descended on Kiev Sunday for the city’s fourth annual pride parade, despite threats to turn the celebration into a “bloodbath,” BuzzFeed reports. Despite threats, BuzzFeed reports that a small scuffle between police and th…
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Nyle DiMarco Trampolines for Pride: WATCH
The folks at Paper magazine had sexually fluid America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars champion Nyle DiMarco put on a pair of white briefs and jump up and down on a trampoline for Pride. Why? Nobody knows. But they could have at lea…
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This 20-Year-Old Rapper Made Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ into a Pride Anthem That’s Going Viral: WATCH
Rapper-singer-songwriter Chika, a 20-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama, took Ed Sheeran’s massive hit “Shape of You” and turned it into a Pride anthem that’s quickly going viral. Wrote Chika on Twitter: “Happy #PrideMont…
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LA Pride Parade Goes from Party to Protest: VIDEO
LOS ANGELES — Dan Ortega hadn’t been to an LA Pride parade in at least a decade. The 54-year-old real estate agent from Los Angeles, who is gay, had admittedly grown complacent with the LGBTQ movement — especially after the Supreme Court legali…
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Southwest Airlines Spotlights Gay Transgender Employee in LGBT Pride Spot: WATCH
Southwest Airlines features Ethan Avanzino, a creative producer at the company, in a new spot for LGBTQ Pride. “June is special for me because it is LGBT Pride Month,” says Avanzino in the spot. “As a gay transgender man, Pride is i…
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Jimmy Kimmel Asks Gay People ‘What’s the Straightest Thing You’ve Ever Done?’ – WATCH
In honor of LGBTQ Pride month, Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets of West Hollywood to ask the gays, “what’s the straightest thing you’ve ever done?” The remarks may or may not resemble you. What’s the straightest thing yo…
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Recognizes Pride Month, Joins Ivanka Trump
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recognized LGBTI Pride Month Wednesday in a statement sent to Newsweek, condemning “violence and discrimination” against the international community and stopping just short of calling out Russia over Chech…
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