‘We say gay’: Florida’s largt Pri para draws hundreds of thoands

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• ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
• ST. PETE PRI GAY FLORIDA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY ST. PETERSBURG, FL TRAVEL GUI
• GAY ST PETERSBURG

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

Petersburg, Florida remas the sunnit place to be gay!

Petrburg was named one of the “50 Fabulo Gay Friendly Plac to Live” by Gregory Komp. While there is no “gay ghetto” there are many neighborhoods that are gay and lbian iendly. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

ST. PETE PRI GAY FLORIDA TRAVEL GUI

Along wh rabow hats, eye makp, clothg and flags, there were prott signs the sea of Pri revelers, cludg those that said “We say gay” and "Bans off our bodi. The measure, which crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, prohibs classroom stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn Florida classrooms for stunts “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

McKeon hosted a booth where he sold water bottl, T-shirts and stickers wh “Jt Say Gay” emblazoned across the ont of each em.

GAY ST. PETERSBURG, FL TRAVEL GUI

In the week until the “Don’t Say Gay” law tak effect — and a moment time that for many queer people has brought a sense of unease about their future — the ever-faiar “pri as prott” rea lored how many celebrated the largt event of s kd Florida, a state that has propelled self to the center of the latt culture war. “If you’re gog to be gay anywhere Florida, St. Dpe the 90-gree heat and humidy that ntued to the early eveng hours and a smatterg of anti-gay protters holdg signs that said “J Lov You” and “How Can I Pray for You, ” patrons stayed for hours after the para, visg vendors and lol bs, and dancg North Strb Park.

Petersburg om Tampa, said that neher the protters nor the “Don’t Say Gay” law uld ter her. He says no — he has to work today — but the last para, he was on a float for a well-known lol gay rort that no longer exists. Texas, which found stat’ sodomy laws were unnstutnal crimalizg gay sex.

GAY ST PETERSBURG

That momento cisn was weled by about 10, 000 people gathered among the bungalows and storeonts of the gayborhood. And when the state surgeon general misleadgly attacks trans health re, when the ernor m about drag shows beg child endangerment as his spokwoman fuels “groomer” rhetoric to make 1950s-era homophobic lawmakers proud, and when legislators flict the famo “Don’t Say Gay” (or trans) law on schools, the threat is now. But I’m also sred for people like myself, who are gay or whatever may be, bee of what’s gog on.

Pete, ’s gay-iendly, the majory is very I’ll put this way: I wouldn’t hate to hold my hband’s hand anywhere St. Downtown don’t have the soul of the gayborhood where Pri was born, but for today, ’s a queer paradise. The homophob have got to go!

We’re heterosexuals, and we love the gay muny.

God ma gay people, too, so he knows what he’s dog.