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- NEW YORK PRI SE THOANDS DANCE, MARCH NAKED AND CELEBRATE LOURFUL GAY RIGHTS PARA – WHILE TURKISH RT POLICE CRACK DOWN ON BANNED MARCH ISTANBUL
- CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
- “GAY PRI” PARAS, NUDY, AND NIHILISM
- I WENT TO DC’S GAY PRI PARA. HERE ARE 9 THGS I SAW.
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
NEW YORK PRI SE THOANDS DANCE, MARCH NAKED AND CELEBRATE LOURFUL GAY RIGHTS PARA – WHILE TURKISH RT POLICE CRACK DOWN ON BANNED MARCH ISTANBUL
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CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
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Some do for fun, some do for spare sh, but many do jt to survive when our fai kick out (queer youth New York Cy are still seven tim more likely to pend on sex work than heterosexual peers, acrdg to the Urban Instute) of our lbian, gay, bi, and trans forebears assumed they'd never be able to participate the nventns of fay life. A TALE OF TWO GAY PRIDES New York Pri se thoands dance, march NAKED and celebrate lourful gay rights para – while Turkish rt police crack down on BANNED march IstanbulAs marchers New York proudly fied hate, Turkish mpaigners were beaten and arrtedPublished: 12:36, 26 Jun 2017Updated: 16:02, 26 Jun 2017WHILE happy crowds enjoyed a lourful gay pri para New York today, rt police wh dogs, guns and rt shields thlsly cshed lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex activists fyg a ban on a siar event Turkey.
“GAY PRI” PARAS, NUDY, AND NIHILISM
But police ed tear gas to disperse crowds gatherg to fight for gay and transgenr rights at Istanbul LGBTI+ Pri, which has been banned by the Istanbul ernor's office for the third year a row. Brad Hoylman, a Democratic lawmaker the New York State Senate, said lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were "unr asslt" by the Tmp admistratn. The New York march's grand marshals this year clu the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, which was chosen for s history of ligatn fendg gay rights; Brooke Guan, a transgenr woman who works as a firefighter the cy; and Geng Le, a gay rights activist Cha.
28 The march route ends where rts broke out 1969 after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay barCred: EPA. The march route ends on Christopher Street Manhattan's Wt Village to memorate the rts that broke out there 1969 after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, an event seen as a turng pot the gay rights movement.
I WENT TO DC’S GAY PRI PARA. HERE ARE 9 THGS I SAW.
Gabriel Anrson march wh Suts for Equaly durg the 45th annual San Francis Gay Pri para Sunday, June 28, 2015, San Francis.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
A woman wearg a stume walks away om Turkish rt police durg the Gay Pri para on June 28, 2015 the Istiklal street near the Taksim square Istanbul. The middle-aged, Whe men who I grew up wh said they were “fe” wh gay people as long as they wouldn’t be subjected to PDA — as long as all signs of queer love uld be outwardly erased.
The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi. New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days.