Picketers target Tampa TV outlet for airing anti-gay program
Nearly 100 people picketed in front of WFLA News Channel 8 on Wednesday, opposing the station’s decision to run a religious paid program they say contained hate speech against gays and lesbians.
The one-hour program, “Speechless: Silencing Christians,” aired on June 27, the same day as the St. Pete Pride parade.
“It was a slap in the face of the gay pride movement,” R. Zeke Fread, the director of Pride Tampa Bay, said at Wednesday’s protest. “It was an hourlong attack on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.”
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‘Yay gay!’: San Francisco Pride takes over city streets in its 39th year
From leather-clad to barely clad, masses numbering in the hundreds of thousands partied proud in downtown San Francisco this past weekend. June 27-28 marked the 39th anniversary of the San Francisco Pride Celebration & Parade, and judging by the morning-after media reports, the famous festival doesn’t seem to be getting dull with age.
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When Gay Pride Day Takes Two Weeks
MADRID | As happens with many Spanish celebrations, Gay Pride “Day” has rather miraculously been stretched out into nearly two weeks of parties, performances, parades, rallies, exhibitions, conferences, and lots and lots of late-night festivities. When I arrived here from New York City nearly seven years ago, Orgullo, as the festival is known, was already a five-day extravaganza bursting at the seams with events and activities and non-stop socializing from which the city’s citizenry — gay, straight and undecided — often needed about five days to recover.
But Madrid has recently begun pushing the envelope even further by scheduling its pride parade a week after the typical last-weekend-in-June date respected almost everywhere else around the globe. By ceding this Saturday, June 27, to Spain’s provincial capitals for their local pride celebrations, Madrid now guarantees that all of Spain will be free to attend its parade and parties on the following Saturday, this year on July 4.
And indeed, attendance in recent years has reportedly topped 2 million, making Madrid’s Orgullo festivities likely the largest party in Europe of any stripe for four years running.
Which is not to say that this weekend, as the parades and parties are getting under way in other cities and towns across the country from Barcelona to Tenerife, that gay Madrid will staying in and resting up.
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Fed judge allows ministry to leaflet at St. Louis gay pride
(St. Louis) A federal judge has issued a permanent order allowing a ministry to leaflet at a gay pride event in St. Louis later this month.
A lawyer representing Apple of His Eye Inc. said Monday that the ministry will resume religious leafleting at St. Louis’ PrideFest on June 27-28, following …
