Changes in San Diego reflected in San Diego’s Pride Parade, Festival

The hundreds of San Diegans who marched for rights in the mid- walked through a city largely indifferent, even antagonistic, to the cause.

What they have made.

Today, up to 9,000 will take part in the Parade, including the mayor, and seven of the eight City Council . are expecting 175,000 from across the country and as far away as , and Britain.

While ’s parade may never be as big as those in or Los Angeles, there are many of how has changed into a city in the of the campaign for rights.

In November, in the days after California voted to ban same- , the largest in the nation occurred in . More than 20,000 marched, double any other city’s turnout.

The size of ’s came as a to many, including , the rights and lecturer who founded the Memorial Quilt and was an intern for slain and . Jones is the of today’s parade and several others around the country.

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A Texas gay raid and Stonewall

The Fort Worth police have “some explaining to do,” said Jacquielynn Floyd in The Dallas Morning News. On June 28, officers raided a bar called the Lounge, sending a to intensive care with a . “In what I can only hope is a spectacularly infelicitous ,” it took place on the of the , the -rights movement’s . The ’ story—drunk men groped them—doesn’t add up.

Well, Jeff is backing his men and their classic “ Panic Defense,” said Dan Savage in The Stranger, which goes: He made a pass at me, so I was justified in beating/killing him. That would still be illegal, but it’s also bunk. “I’ve been in a million bars” like the Lounge, and “ men don’t grope when they enter bars.”

It is, “obviously, very sad” that one of the Lounge is in , said Rod Dreher in BeliefNet, but come on, the report that “ who entered a bar were set upon by drunk, horny who played grab-ass with them” is “hilarious,” and not at all far-fetched. , especially drunk , can be “as stupid as the rest of us.”

Except that the hospitalized man was reportedly drinking bottled water, said Jeff Epperly in New England’s Bay Windows. But 40 years after , this kind of goes on all over the U.S., not just in Texas. The at Forth Worth’s Lounge “was the work of a that wasn’t smart enough to hide its .” See A Texas gay raid and Stonewall The Week Magazine

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Fort Worth mayor wants federal review in raid of gay bar

Fort Worth Moncrief called on federal Friday to ensure a thorough review of last week’s bar that resulted in a serious to one .

Parallel — one by Fort Worth police and another within the Commission — are already under way into what happened Sunday at the Lounge.

And, Jeff has announced the of bar checks conducted jointly by his department and .

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Castro-ville: a 21st century, gay-friendly city

Mayor Julián knew roughly what to expect when he agreed this week to serve as the of ’s parade — the first mayor to do so — and in less than 24 hours, talk- had marshalled his self-styled “Adam’s ,” urging them via web and airwaves to bombard the new mayor with pleas to withdraw. McManus applied the same pressure to SA William (no relation) McManus when he served in the role in 2007.

[ is also urging his to the ’s month programming, which includes a screening of . His website, somewhat hysterically, insists on adding “” in front of any GLBT-related items, as in “ Parade,” and “ ” – in honor of which we’re changing this week’s cover , “’s Gayest Newspaper,” to “’s Newspaper.”]“I knew that it would be controversial,” told the via phone this morning. He that he has received 80-90 emails opposing his , many of them echoing the ’s recommended . “But to [’s] credit … they have been very polite, very respectful.”

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Gay Pride in Moscow: Report from a Chicago Activist

Andy , from the Liberation Network in Chicago, in last night. courtesy Glay Liberation Network.

By Andy in
, May 14, 2009 ( Liberation Network) – After 14 hours of flights, last night I found myself in Eastern for the first , warmly greeted by and who, despite , are organizing their fourth annual event in this city. This year’s event is dubbed ‘Slavic ’, denoting the significant of from around the region.
The previous three years’ have gone forward despite bans from the and from neo- in and skinhead garb. This year the not only banned the event, but for good measure, approved the anti-’ application to hold their own event this past Tuesday.
That same day, our countered with their own unsanctioned action at the Department of Registration of Acts of Civil Status – an by two to get a license.
Leading Slavic Alekseev said the action was inspired in part by a February at a license bureau in Chicago. The action received widespread international press coverage, including from the .
As I shadowed Alekseev around the city last night, press coverage if anything seemed to build, with ’s two cell phones ringing incessantly and meetings with Finish and Slovenian held near midnight just outside of .
Slavic is slated for this Saturday, amidst the big ‘ Fest’ being hosted this year by . For those not familiar with what is, think times ten, with a of media coverage and that puts Chicago’s to .
While our specific plans for Saturday are necessarily secret at this time, the aim is to cause maximum embarrassment to the government if they to arrest us or allow the neo- to attack.
In response to ’ application for a permit this year, Vladmir Pronin told the Russian Interfax that parades in the capital are “unacceptable - parades shouldn’t be allowed”.
“No one will dare to do it, such ‘braveheart’ will be torn to shreds,” he added. “The West can say we’re bad guys, but our will see it is right. Our country is patriarchal, that’s [] sums it up… I positively agree with the Church, with the , , especially with [Mayor] Luzhkov, who are convinced that man and should each other. It is established by and .”
However, have vowed to move forward with this year’s event despite the ’s threats.
“Mr. Pronin already showed his incompetency last year when his services were unable to prevent us unveiling a banner directed against the Mayor, right opposite his office,” said Alekseev.
The main event successfully took place nearby at the monument to the famous Russian composer, Peter Tchkaivosky, while the and neo- were hoodwinked in to thinking that it would take place outside of Mayor Luzhkov’s office.
Today at the start of a rights conference at an east of the city, I was joined by British rights and from around and Belorussia ­ Minsk, Rostof, Sochi, Ufa, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Ekaterinbourg, Volgodonsk, Ryazan and of course .
As we gathered on a to go to the conference, Baev explained how a group of young from Ryazan, about 200 miles south of the capital, got involved in organizing this year’s Slavic :
“There is a very in the which prohibits so-called about homosexuality20and among minors. The law passed in 2006 and we had that said that is absolutely normal and we are proud of our situation. We picketed in front of schools in Ryazan and we were detained because it was illegal.”
Two were found guilty and fined 1500 roubles (about $45 US) each. Alekseev came to Ryazan to help in the campaign and in the appeal of their cases to the of .
Then, Sergey Yenin, 19, explained how he became involved in rights organizing in Belorussia :
“I felt myself to be from my early childhood, he explained.
“Last year I came to Minsk and there I got acquainted with some and I thought it would be great if I fought for my rights. There are a of who don’t fight for their rights, who don’t participate in such movements, and they just consume our achievements.
“For example, we fought for our club, our one club in Minsk. It was in danger of being closed [by the government], but it still exists, due to us.”
I asked Sergey if he had participated in Minsk before.
“Yes, of course. The most outstanding parade took place in 2001. But I didn’t participate because I was only 11 then. There were over 300 participating in this event and 300 watching. This was fabulous This was an historical moment in Belorussia.
“The last one took place in October of 2008. It was named Walk and it took place on the 11th of October 2008, the international day of coming out, and we organized a parade. It was a rather private, intimate event, there were fifty because we cannot such a public event because of our government.
“If we applied for an event, we would be denied.
“There is an action that takes place [each year] called Chernobyl Way, and all of the parties take place there, and our group participated last year and this year. Last year we raised the flag and there were a of bad comments about it, there were a of thre ats [of ]. There were such as Right Alliance, and they threaten us all of the time. This year we didn’t20raise our flag because the of the Belorussian National Front, the main party, they coordinated a call to us, do not raise your flag, not because we have anything against you, because our fight for clean air, free of radiation will turn into a fight for rights.”
I asked Sergey why he personally joined the 15 others for the ten hour from Belorussia to join this Saturday’s Slavic : “I [only] made the [to come] on May 12 because I was really very frightened about myself and my . I know that there is some information that is going to be canceled, and more than this, that are going to be beaten.
“Because this is my fight really.If I don’t go to the parade, who will go there? My reasons to come was to support my – and of course to support rights.”
SEE ALSO
Tatchell To Attend Moscow Gay Pride. Despite threats to bash and arrest the marchers, British will attend this Saturday’s parade – this year renamed Slavic to support the , , and () struggles in all Slavic countries, Russian and non-Russian. (UK News, May 11, 2009)
Gay Marriage Campaign Starts in Russia. will apply for a license in on May 12, it emerged this afternoon. The announcement was made today during a press conference for Slavic which is planned for later this month in . (UK News, May 5, 2009)

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Brazil gay killings may be work of serial killer

(Sao Paulo, Brazil) are investigating whether a possible is behind the of more than a dozen men in a park in suburban Sao Paulo.

Paulo Fernando Fortunato tells the newspaper that 13 men were killed there between February 2007 and …

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