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Thursday, June 26

Friends Indeed...

“Politicians from the European Parliament’s all-party ‘intergroup’ on gay and lesbian rights said last night that they warmly supported the Gay Pride scheduled to take place on Saturday in Sofia. It will be the very first Pride event to be held in Bulgaria…” [UK Gay News]

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Thursday, June 26

Preemptive Strike.

An estimated 2,000 police officers will be on hand for Jerusalem’s gay pride march later today. And they’re already hard at work: “Police on Thursday afternoon detained a haredi man in Jerusalem for holding an insulting sign against the gay pride parade, some two hours before the scheduled...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-26-2008
Wednesday, June 25

Proud Partners

“Viacom’s LGBT channel Logo, a division of its MTV Networks, will launch Web tie-in “The Pride Guide” this month. The online site, sponsored by Southwest Airlines and NYC & Company, will provide gay pride-themed video, event guides, photo flipbooks and programming rosters. The site launch...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-25-2008
Monday, June 23

Rejected...

“The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected a petition submitted by right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir in efforts to prevent a Gay Pride parade from being held in Jerusalem this week. The parade will take place as planned on Thursday.” [Haaretz]

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Tuesday, June 17

"Symposium."

The American Civil Liberties Union invited activists, pundits and media types - like Pam Spaulding, Rachel Maddow and John Aravosis - to write a few words on gay pride. And, for some reason, they asked our editor, who wrote a surprisingly earnest piece. Here’s but a taste: “When I think of...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-17-2008
Monday, June 16

Shirt Lift!

Britain’s gay soldiers can wear their uniforms during this year’s July 5th pride march. This is the first time Army, military and navy gays have been allowed to show their true colors. The Army put up some resistance but eventually fell into line like good soldiers. [Times]

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Friday, June 13

Lift!

Budapest police lifted their ban on this year’s gay pride parade, which is scheduled for July 5th. [Xinhua]

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Wednesday, June 11

Perspectives.

“After illegal Gay Pride marches went ahead in Moscow earlier this month, homosexualist activists are condemning the Russian Orthodox Church for asserting Christian teaching on sexuality and suggesting that homosexual people do not have to live the ‘gay lifestyle’. One member of the...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-11-2008
Thursday, June 05

Ratio.

Romania’s gay pride ain’t all that: “Last weekend saw the gay pride march taking place. Unfortunately being gay is not advisable in Romania. The event was attended by around 150 gay and lesbians, 1500 police and around 2000 Neo-Nazis on an anti-gay march. Needless to say if the Neo...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-05-2008
Tuesday, June 03

Proud Push.

“A little piece of UK gay history was made when the British Ambassador to Latvia, Richard Moon ordered the Rainbow Flag to be flown at the Embassy to mark Riga Pride and Friendship Days. It is thought that this might be the first occasion that a Rainbow Flag has been flown from a British embassy...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-03-2008

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