Homosexual activists are peeved at Hallmark over a Christmas ornament is marketg that is nspicuo for s non-“gay” appearance. by Dave Bohon
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- HALLMARK RPONDS TO 'GAY' ORNAMENT CONTROVERSY WH REGRET
- HOMOSEXUALS ANGRY OVER NON-“GAY” HALLMARK CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
- HALLMARK’S “GAY” ORNAMENT PROBLEM ANGERS JT ABOUT EVERYONE
HALLMARK RPONDS TO 'GAY' ORNAMENT CONTROVERSY WH REGRET
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By Kev Murphy KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov 1 (Rters) - Hallmark Cards has apologized for changg a word a well-known Christmas rol om "gay" to "fun" on a holiday Kansas Cy-based pany created an ornament for s Keepsake le pictg a miature sweater bearg the words "Don we now our fun apparel, " stead of the lyric "Don we now our gay apparel" om the Christmas rol "Deck the Halls.
Hallmark did not say where negative reactn to the ornament me om, but a lear of one Kansas Cy gay rights anizatn said on Friday that the pany went overboard g the word "fun" on the ornament.
"The whole thg seems silly to , " said Mch Leve, muny ambassador of the Lbian and Gay Communy Center of Kansas Cy.
HOMOSEXUALS ANGRY OVER NON-“GAY” HALLMARK CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT
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"Leve said he had received ne media lls about the ornament and wish so much attentn was given to more ser afonts to gays and lbians, such as homophobic lyrics some new an earlier statement about the ornament, Hallmark said that when the lyrics to "Deck the Halls" were nverted om Gaelic to English the 1800s, the word gay meant ftive or merry.
Today’s Gay Pri paras, march and LGBTQ Pri Month were set motn by events the summer of 1969 at The... On a sunny April day six years ago durg a trail walk, my son told me he was gay. Today’s Gay Pri paras, march and LGBTQ Pri Month were set motn by events the summer of 1969 at The Stonewall Inn, a small gay bar Greenwich, New York.
Now Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Pri Month is memorated annually June—and, for the first time 1999, officially clared by Printial proclamatn. Natnwi march and events celebrate LGBTQ people and their inti, advance the movement to end discrimatn and victimizatn and honor those who fought for gay rights before and sce Stonewall. Gay bars provid refuge but were equent targets of police surveillance and raids.
HALLMARK’S “GAY” ORNAMENT PROBLEM ANGERS JT ABOUT EVERYONE
Law enforcement was crackg down on gay bars Greenwich Village, and the early hours of June 28, 1969, eight officers entered the Stonewall Inn. Groups like the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (E. Voted to anize a Gay Pri Week and a monstratn.
Called the “Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, ” the monstratn would take place on the one-year anniversary of the prev summer’s uprisgs. Organizg Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day was the necsary first step an ongog qut for LGBTQ liberatn around the world.
Today’s gay pri march and celebratns.