Gay rugby player Fernando Ferreira, who plays with the Kings Cross Steelers RFC, founded in 1995 as the first ever gay inclusive rugby club, proposed to his boyfriend as the club took part in this weekend’s London Pride parade. As the team appe…
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Twitter Slams Heterosexual Pride Day
Coming on the heels of the LGBTQ community’s month-long Gay Pride celebrations, Twitter users mocked the existence of Heterosexual Pride Day Thursday. The holiday quickly became one of the top-trending topics on the website with thousands of me…
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Chicago Dyke March Releases Statement on Jewish Pride Flag Incident
The Chicago Dyke March, which made headlines earlier this week for asking three Jewish women to leave the procession who were carrying Pride flags bearing the Star of David, released an official statement on the incident. RELATED: 3 Asked to Leave Ch…
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Straight Cop’s Pride Message Goes Viral
A straight New York City police officer’s Pride message is being shared widely across social media because it’s full of all the reasons he’s an ally of the LGBTQ community. Writes the cop on Facebook (who goes under the name Huge Fa…
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While Trump Shuns LGBT Pride Month, Justin Trudeau Marches in Toronto Pride Parade: PHOTOS, VIDEO
While Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge June as LGBT Pride month, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leading Toronto’s parade. Love is love. #PrideTO pic.twitter.com/z2No7rdchZ — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 25, 201…
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Tear Gas, Arrests, Rubber Bullets as Police Break Up Istanbul Pride Parade
Turkish police have prevented LGBT activists from holding a parade in downtown Istanbul, organisers said, as small groups attempted to defy a ban by the local authorities. The Istanbul governorship on Saturday prohibited the march citing safety and p…
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Says She Was Booed by Hateful Hecklers Along NYC Pride Route
Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that she and her family were booed and heckled as they left a restaurant along the NYC Pride march route. Wrote Haley on Facebook: “We had lunch at a spot on the Pride Parad…
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3 Asked to Leave Chicago LGBT March Over ‘Triggering’ Star of David Flags
Organizers of ‘anti-Zionist’ event say rainbow banners held by Jewish participants ‘made people feel unsafe’ By JTA Illustrative: Participants in the San Francisco Pride Parade showing their Jewish and Israeli pride, June 30, 2014. (Wikimedia Commons…
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NYC Pride March: WATCH LIVE
Click HERE to watch the NYC Pride March Live Stream. The parade starts at 12 pm ET Sunday at Fifth Avenue and 36th Street. Heritage of Pride, which produces the NYC Pride parade on June 25, agreed earlier this year to allow Trump resistance groups to…
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From Gay Nazis to ‘We’re Here, We’re Queer’: A Century of Arguing About Gay Pride
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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