Gay Monument The Hague Vandalized wh Anti-Gay Graffi

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• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• GAY PRI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

Our missnHerage of Pri is the non prof anizatn that plans and produc New York Cy's official LGBTQIA+ Pri events each year's events memorate the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969 — the begng of the morn Gay Rights missnAboutHerage of Pri works toward a future whout discrimatn where all people have equal rights unr the law. This year, rabow-clad activists and alli will take to the streets (and later NYC’s gay bars) support of global LGBTQ rights at the NYC Pri March on Sunday, June 25. And although pri has been celebrated for over 50 years, June wasn’t officially clared as Gay and Lbian Pri Month until Print Bill Clton paved the way 2000.

In 2011, Print Barack Obama expand this observance to be all-clive wh Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri. Gay Pri Week & Christopher Street Para. The New York Gay Pri is one of the olst paras for gays om all over the world.

If you’re unaware, the Uprisg hosted around 500 people gatherg for a “Gay Power” monstratn si of Washgton Square Park and was followed by a ndlelight vigil at Sheridan Square. This year’s So Many Issu wh Las: The JUST SAY GAY Show featur some well-known talents om the LGBTQIA+ muny, cludg Asha Ward, Freeda Kulo, Nick Gaga and more.

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Events and their supporters have st a pall over gay bars and muny Cullg marched wh a sign that read, “I march for my dghter” – a fact more ways than one, havg crossed the untry wh her 18-year-old trans dghter om Southern California search of a more welg home. Young people particular, banng transgenr health re for mors and barrg teachers om discsg gay and transgenr topics a report released last week, two civil rights groups documented more than 350 acts of anti-L.

Harassment, vandalism or vlence the Uned Stat between June 2022 and April 2023, wh more than half explicly referrg to gay or transgenr people as of those cints have been adly.

Such a plan was rried out by a shooter Colorado who killed five people and jured 17 more at a gay bar last November, what prosecutors have said was a hate same month, anxieti were high New York after a gay bar had s wdow smashed by bricks four tim one month. Weeks later, the office of a gay New York Cy Council member was vandalized by opponents of Drag Story Time, who then vandalized his home and asslted his Hamja/The New York TimEven the se of Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts, has not been spared. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

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But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post.

Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?

The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add. Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said. ”-- Maryann Batlle Pri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn held a cellphone toward the Pri Para and shared a livtream of the joyful marchg happeng down Park, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe, is a gay Black man livg Rochter. -- Maryann Batlle Pri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanRabow balloons, a huge Pri flag wh a sey face and a thatch beach umbrella were among the r of a para float honor of gay rights advote Dick Jackman.

A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague.

A monument the Netherlands that is dited to LGBTQ people who have been persecuted due to their sexual orientatn has been vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past. The graffi pated at the monument se and on the bench clud drawgs and anti-gay slogans, cludg “fuck gays, ’ “fuck Pri, ” and “weg met pri, ” or “down wh Pri.

“It is a ser form of vandalism that stems om homophobia, ” she said, acrdg to the NL Tim. “The Homomonument is a symbol of acceptance and eedom.