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Saturday, July 19
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Source: Tri-Cities Herald , KNDO/KNDU TV Pasco, Wash. -- The LGBT community in central Washington's Tri-Cities -- Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland -- celebrate this weekend with the second annual Mid-Columbia Pride 2008. Events include an afternoon softball game Pasco City Hall and coronation of Miss Gay Columbia Basin at 9 pm at Out & About in Pasco. A parade from Out & About to Sylvester Park will start at 11 am Sunday, followed by a six-hour celebration in the park featuring more than two dozen vendors and live entertainment from The Shades and comedienne Vickie Shaw. Speaking with...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Source: KSAX , Minneapolis Star Tribune , St Paul Pioneer Press , Star Tribune Over 100 people gathered to protest at a Minneapolis Catholic church after its archdiocese barred an annual gay pride prayer service from taking place inside. S aying they don't want to go back in the closet, gay and lesbian Catholics and their supporters took their annual prayer service celebrating gay pride outdoors Wednesday night. Protestors marched around St. Joan of Arc in objection to the ban. Gay and lesbian groups said the service is a tradition that’s several years old. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, City...
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Sunday, June 22
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Source: Aktuálně.cz , TOL Magazine Brno, Czech Republic -- What is billed by the news site Aktuálně.cz as the first gay and lesbian march ever held in the Czech Republic will be staged, not in Prague, the country's cosmopolitan capital, but in its second largest city, the provincial capital of Brno. The so-called "Rainbow Parade" event, planned for Saturday 28 June, has already caused controversies among far-right and Christian groups, Aktuálně reports. The tradition of gay pride marches emerged in the USA in the 1970s and is now a commonplace in most of the major Western cities....
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: Search Engine Land One of many blogs devoted to search engines has noticed that Google is flying a subtle gay rainbow flag for a few extraordinarily broad searches, including gay , lesbian , homosexual , and gay marriage . For those searches, Google appears to support Gay Pride month by adding a rainbow colored divider between the standard (so called "organic") search results and paid search results on the right side of the page. The border -- similar to page changes the company makes for other holidays including Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa -- disappears, however, for most...
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Monday, June 16
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Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency , YnetNews , Ha'aretz Organizers of Jerusalem's annual gay pride march said they hope for less friction with the city's religious residents this year. The Open House in Jerusalem announced on Monday that the city's Pride Parade would take place on Thursday of next week, with the theme of "free love". This year marks the parade's seventh anniversary in Jerusalem, and it has become well-known for sparking annual controversy among the ultra-Orthodox communities in the city, YnetNews reports. "This year we expect the parade to be...
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Sunday, June 15
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Source: Edmonton Sun , Calgary Herald , Xtra West , Calgary Sun , MetroNews After yesterday's annual Gay Pride parade in Alberta's capital city, Murray Billett, a gay activist and member of the Edmonton Police Commission, recalled for the Edmonton Sun the small crowd on Whyte Avenue, where Edmonton's first Gay Pride parade took place. "I think Edmonton has become a more sophisticated, a more respectful city and I'm really proud to be part of it," said Billett, who was in the parade riding in a police commission's vehicle. Former city councilor Michael Phair told the...
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Sunday, June 15
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Source: Boston Globe , WBZ-TV As the Governor's family marched together down Beacon Street past the State House to City Hall Plaza, they were greeted with a outpouring of cheers. They paused at the end of the parade to speak with well-wishers and pose for photos, the Boston Globe reports. It's the second time that the Patricks have marched in the parade, but it's the first time that Governor Deval Patrick's 18-year-old daughter, Katherine, marched after publicly announcing she is a lesbian . Patrick became the first governor in the state's history to march in the parade last...
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Monday, June 09
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Source: KTLA-TV , Los Angeles Times , Salt Lake Tribune , Winnipeg Free Press , New America Media The mood was celebratory throughout North America this weekend as several LGBT Pride parades marched on the streets from Winnipeg, to Salt Lake City, to the biggest festival of all this weekend in West Hollywood. The celebration in Los Angeles was given added meaning since the state Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage last month. Estimates of the crowds lining Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood were as high as 175,000 people. They gathered to watch and cheer more than 125 entries...
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Sunday, June 08
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Source: AFP , Radio Netherlands Thousands took to the streets of Athens, Rome and Warsaw for Gay Pride parades, drawing attention to the fact that many gay people in Europe still do not enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. Marchers in Warsaw were separated from right wing demonstrators by heavy police presence. The Athens parade was headed by Evangelia Vlami, one of the four gay newly-weds married last Tuesday by the mayor of the island of Tilos, who took advantage of a legal loophole. Vlami, head of the Greek Union of Homosexuals and Lesbians (Olke), rode at the head of the parade that drew...
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Saturday, June 07
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Source: DPA via Monsters & Critics , AFP , UK Gay News Warsaw -- About 2000 people marched today in the Polish capital's annual gay rights parade amid heavy a police presence and counter-protests by right-wing nationalist groups. The hundreds of gay men, lesbians, and supporters set off from a downtown square in the Warsaw Pride parade, waving rainbow-colored gay pride and European Union flags. They were led by several trucks blasting techno music, filled with dancers and women wearing Las Vegas-style feathered headpieces. Most of the young, colorfully dressed participants made their way...
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Friday, June 06
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Source: YnetNews , Haaretz , Jerusalem Post Tel Aviv Gay Pride photo: by Yaron Brener for YnetNews More than a thousand people arrived at the Gan Meir Park in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon to participate in the 10th Gay Pride Parade and to celebrate the gay community's struggle for equality. Organizers and local officials also christened a center for the gay community situated in the city's Meir park. "The center symbolizes an amazing turning point in the history of the gay community, and our activities will now have fertile ground from which to grow and flourish," Army Radio quoted...
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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: Twin Falls Times-News , KIVI-TV , Deseret News , KTVB Twin Falls, Idaho -- After weeks of controversy about it, including dozens of letters to the local paper, a float sponsored the Southern Idaho Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in the local "Western Days" parade caused barely a ripple in the crowds who gathered to watch the event, the Twin Falls Times-News reports. The Western Days parade in Twin Falls is one of the biggest community events of the year, and in recent years, a center of controversy. Tens of thousands of people line the streets to see high...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: Canadian Press , CBC News , The Hill Times REGINA, Sask. -- A Conservative member of Parliament, who promised earlier this year to spend his life promoting tolerance after a video surfaced of him making anti-gay remarks in 1991, was a no-show Saturday at Regina's gay pride parade. Gay groups said they were disappointed that Regina-Lumsden MP Tom Lukiwski didn't even respond to an invitation to attend the parade. A coalition of groups said they sent Lukiwski a written invitation to attend the Saturday event, but he didn't respond. It was the first event of its kind in Regina...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: Moscow Times , Telegraph (London) , Associated Press , AFP According to AFP, the banner briefly unfurled near the Kremlin calls for "Rights for Gays and Lesbians. Condemn the Moscow Mayor's Homophobia" photo: Moscow Times Moscow -- Gay rights activists protested in defiance of a City Hall ban on Sunday, marching with placards and rainbow flags in front of the Moscow State Conservatory and unfurling a banner demanding greater rights for gays and lesbians from an apartment window opposite the mayor's offices, just blocks from the Kremlin, Moscow Times reports. Dozens of...
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Saturday, May 31
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Source: Deutsche Welle, Associated Press via IHT , UK Gay News Gay Pride demonstrators were allowed to march on a street in Riga this year. Photos: UK Gay News Protesters with Russian-language signs and bizarre condom costumes separated from Pride demonstrators by a cordon of police Photo: UK Gay News Gay rights activists and their opponents have squared off Saturday during a parade in downtown Riga, Latvia in what has become an unfortunate springtime tradition in the Baltic country. For the first time, however, the demonstration in Riga was mostly peaceful this year, and included an unprecedented...
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Monday, May 26
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Source: Reuters , Made In Brazil blog , Earthtimes , Canadian Press Fearing random violence along the dense parade route, most Sao Paulo gay clubs pulled their floats from this year's parade, according to one report, but made up for it with huge parties like Girassol Day Party on Saturday evening. photo via Made In Brazil Huge crowds along the streets of Sao Paulo partied into the evening photos via UOL Gay SAO PAULO -- Millions of people waving rainbow flags and wearing lavish Carnival costumes danced and cheered their way through South America's largest city on Sunday to celebrate gay...
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Saturday, May 24
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Source: Reuters via Washington Post , Xinhua via People's Daily , Birmingham News Around 200 gay activists marched through Bucharest, Romania on Saturday in what news service Reuters calls a "heavily policed pride parade." A US mayor, meanwhile, echoed the action of several eastern European mayors by refusing to grant organizers of a Pride observance any kind of official recognition. It's a far different situation in Brazil where organizers are bracing to host one of the world's largest LGBT Pride parades -- one that's likely to draw over three-million spectators and participants...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer For the first time since 1977, there won't be a pride march or any other organized pride event other than bar parties on Seattle's Capitol Hill in June. Michael Wells, head of Broadway's business association, told the Seattle P-I that he does not know of any events planned for the street this year. Wells said bars on Capitol Hill might suffer from the absence of a pride march on Broadway. But he said gays and lesbians would probably go to Capitol Hill after the downtown parade and Seattle Center festival that Sunday. Anna Bacler, operations manager...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: UK Gay News , UK Gay News Chisinau, Moldova -- Chisinau police stood aside and let extremist religious groups, members of the neo-fascist movement, “New Right”, and legionnaires prevent Sunday’s gay pride observance from going ahead, UK Gay News reports. Large, aggressive and well-coordinated groups blocked a bus carrying gay pride participants. They then forced open the door the door of the bus before violently trying to break the windows. According to Pride organizers at GenderDoc-M, the protestors even tried to tamper with the engine. As the thugs were physically attacking the bus, they...
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Saturday, May 10
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Source: UK Gay News CHISINAU, Moldova -- Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca has, once again, banned the Gay Pride parade in the Moldovan capital. The parade, part of a week-long "Rainbow over the Dniester" observance is scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 10, UK Gay News reports. But Pride organisers, GenderDoc-M, say that the mayor has no power to ban the planned march. According to the new Moldovan law on public demonstrations, local authorities have no right to prohibit such an event, GenderDoc-M says. If the authorities have proof that there could be serious trouble at an event like Gay Pride...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: AFP , GayRussia.ru press release MOSCOW (AFP) — The Moscow mayor's office said on Wednesday it would not allow gay pride marches -- previously broken up by ultra-nationalists -- to take place on this year's May Day holiday. The announcement came as a gay rights leader said he planned events throughout May to highlight the repression of sexual minorities in Russia. "The council will act decisively and uncompromisingly to prevent attempts to hold such events because society is overwhelmingly opposed to the gay lifestyle and philosophy," council spokesman Sergei Tsoi was...
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Saturday, April 19
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Source: San Jose Mercury News , Women's Sports Foundation Images of out gay athletes from Jeff Sheng's exhibit, "Fearless" photos by Jeff Sheng DANVILLE, Calif. -- Students at San Ramon Valley High School are teaching their classmates and the community that saying something is "so gay" is so uncool. Members of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance, which has been on campus for about 10 years, designated last week Gay Pride Week on campus. Students have been spreading awareness about accepting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. As co-presidents of the Gay...
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Friday, April 11
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Source: Austin Business Journal , Dallas Voice For the first time, Austin's gay pride parade and pride festival later this year will be staged on the same day as part of a burgeoning local effort to tap into the lucrative gay visitor and event market. The two events will be staged on June 14, with the festival held at Auditorium Shores and the parade departing from that location. Organizers believe the combined celebrations -- which used to be held on separate weekends in June -- could draw a combined 50,000 participants and spectators, with many coming from outside the city. People from across...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Sydney Star Observer The careers of some of the clergy who marched in this year's Sydney Lesbian & Gay Mardi Gras Parade under the banner "100 Reverends" have been threatened, Sydney's gay newspaper, the Star Observer ( SSO ), reports. But the ministers told the paper that they have also received support from lay churchgoers. 35 ministers marched in the event to apologise for the Christian Church’s past mistreatment of GLBT people. Eight others chose to remain anonymous by sending a proxy. They marched with an accompanying float to cheers along the parade route. Footage...
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Monday, March 03
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Source: UK Gay News , New Zealand Herald , and ABC News (Australia) Sydney Mardi Gras SYDNEY -- Police have praised revelers at this year’s gay pride parade for their good behavior, with only a small number of incidents occurring. About 300,000 of people watched 10,000 participants in the 30th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras sing and dance their way along Oxford Street Saturday night for the annual celebration of gay rights. This year’s festival attracted large numbers of people to the area surrounding Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. Police were pleased with what they called the "outstanding...
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Saturday, March 01
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Source: Associated Press , AFP , Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Mardi Gras Images from Flickr of 2008 Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras Flickr photo by ssbuchanan Flickr photo by Unforgettable Flickr photo by paul_syd01 Flickr photo by sillypucci SYDNEY, Australia -- Around 300,000 revelers cheered as a sequins-sparkling, 10,000-strong parade sashayed down inner-city streets Saturday in Sydney's 30th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. What began in 1978 as a protest march by 1,500 brave homosexual, lesbian and transsexual men and women that was harshly disbursed by police has grown into one of the world's...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald , News.com.au Rob Summers and Amelia Dzakaria do some last-minute shopping at House of Priscilla. Sydney Morning Herald photo by Bob Pearce Sydney -- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has put violence against gays and lesbians at the forefront of its political agenda, asking the two men who were bashed while walking hand-in-hand in Darlinghurst three months ago to lead tonight's 30th anniversary parade. With more than 9000 participants and 150 floats, tonight's extravaganza is expected to be the parade's biggest ever, finishing with an after-party at the...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: AP via International Herald Tribune and PinkNews ZAGREB, Croatia : A 25-year-old man has become the first person in Croatia to be convicted of a hate crime and was jailed for 14 months for trying to attack a gay parade with gasoline bombs, a court said Tuesday. Josip Situm was convicted Monday of endangering lives and property under two-year old hate crime legislation after police caught him when preparing to throw the homemade devices at Gay Pride marchers in Zagreb's main square last summer. The court in Zagreb also ordered Situm to undergo psychiatric treatment during his time in...
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Wednesday, February 06
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Source: Sydney Star Observer and SXNews Sydney Mardi Gras A group of 100 Christian ministers have declared they will march in this year's Sydney Mardi Gras to apologise for what they describe as the church’s unwelcoming attitude to gays and lesbians. “As ministers of various churches and denominations we recognise that the churches we belong to, and the church in general, have not been places of welcome for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people,” the group said in a statement. “For these things we apologise. We are deeply sorry and ask the forgiveness of the GBLT community.”...
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Saturday, December 08
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Source: PinkNews and GayNZ.com Sydney Mardi Gras organizers have launched a bold new schedule of events and guest performers for their 30th anniversary 2008 Festival -- but a "simple" question posed by Festival Director Marcus Bourget has got people talking. "As we celebrate the 30th anniversary, the question I have for you is a simple one – can we imagine a Mardi Gras without the Parade?" asked Marcus at the Festival guide launch. "A 2005 study commissioned by New Mardi Gras for the Premier's Department concluded that Mardi Gras was responsible for bringing $46 million...
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