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Contents:
- GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
- GAY PRI CELEBRATNS ACROSS U.S.
- MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
- SMALL TOWN THROWS PRI PARA FOR ONLY GAY RINT
- SMALL TOWN HOLDS ANNUAL GAY SHAME PARA
- NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para. * gay pride parade the onion *
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para.
Participants Saturday's Los Angel Gay Pri Para, which helped change straight people's tolerant attus toward Lnch Outreach Program To Provi Troubled Teens Wh Asslt RiflOffEnglish"I'd always thought gays were regular people, jt like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed viants was jt a stctive myth, " said mother of four Hannah Jarrett, 41, mortified at the sight of 17 tanned and oiled boys vortg jock straps to a throbbg techno beat on a float shaped like an enormo phall. " The para, anized by the Los Angel Gay And Lbian And Bisexual And Transvte And Transgenr Alliance (LAGALABATATA), was tend to "promote acceptance, tolerance, and equaly for the cy's gay muny. " Jt the oppose, however, was acplished, as the event nfirmed the worst fears of thoands of non-gay spectators, cementg their mds a bched and distorted image of gay life straight out of the most vilent right-wg hate lerature.
GAY PRI CELEBRATNS ACROSS U.S.
Gay pri march and paras will be held this weekend across the Uned Stat as LGBT Pri Month draws to a close. Here are some lol gay pri celebratns throughout the untry. * gay pride parade the onion *
Among the para sights and sounds that did timable harm to the gay-rights e: a group of obe women leather biker outfs passg out cloris-shaped lollipops to horrified onlookers; a man ary uniform leadg a submissive masochist, clad diapers and a baby bon, around on a dog leash; several Hispanic dancers rabow wigs and miskirts performg "humpg" motns on a mannequ drsed as the Pope; and a dozen gyratg drag queens see-through drs holdg penis-shaped beer bottl that appeared to spurt ejaculatn-like foam when shaken and poured onto passersby.
Timothy Oros, 51, a lol Walgreens manager whose store is on the para route, changed his attu toward gays as a rult of the event.
' and 'Hey, hey, we're gay, we're not gog to go away! Allison Weber, 43, an El Segundo marketg nsultant, also had her perceptns and assumptns about gays challenged by the para.
MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
WASHINGTON—Followg s of bate over the nstutnal right to same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court today hand down a 5-4 lg favor of the most buck-wild, balls-to-the-wall gay pri para this untry has ever seen. “After reviewg the nstutnal unrpngs of this se, the urt fds… * gay pride parade the onion *
"My unrstandg was that gay people are jt like everybody else–cent, hard-workg people who re about their muni and have lovg, mted relatnships, " Weber said.
Footage of the event was featured on telests of The 700 Club as "proof of the s-steeped world of homosexualy. " A photo spread Monday's USA Today chronicled many of the event's vulgar displays–unrstood by gays to be tongue--cheek "high mp"–which horrified prevly tolerant people om ast to ast. Henry Thorne, a New York Universy history profsor who has wrten several books about the gay-rights movement, explaed the misunrstandg.
SMALL TOWN THROWS PRI PARA FOR ONLY GAY RINT
WONN5 reports that hundreds turned out to support Penngton's sgle gay rint Pl Webster. * gay pride parade the onion *
"After centuri of opprsn as an 'visible' segment of society, gays, embolned by the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, took to the streets the early '70s wh an '-your-face' attu. Conontg the worst prejudic of a world that didn't accept them, they fought back agast the prejudic wh exaggeratn and parody, reclaimg their enemi' worst stereotyp about them and turng them to symbols of gay pri, " Thorne said. "Thirty years later, gays have won far greater acceptance the world at large, but they keep dog this stuff anyway.
SMALL TOWN HOLDS ANNUAL GAY SHAME PARA
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The Los Angel Gay Pri Para, Thorne noted, is part of a s-old gay-rights tradn. "I have a who's a gay, and he seemed like a cent enough guy to me, " said Iowa Cy, IA, rint Rs Lr, Los Angel for a weekend sal semar.
NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
Gays are all sick, immoral perverts. ”“The gay liberatn movement was better before went woke. ”“I feel like I n’t turn anywhere Target whout seeg a rabow flag or a pri mug, and then I get vertigo and sp and sp as all the racks of gay pri flags and rabows grow larger and larger around me, until fally I’m wanrg for months si of the pri sectn, screamg, screamg for someone to please save me—to rcue me om the billns of gay pri aisl stretchg as far as the eye n see.
”“I’m a homosexual now bee of those sons of bch! I’m livg my bt life, hontly exprsg my inty to myself and my iends and fay, due to their woke gay agenda! Before you know , we’ll be talkg about gay gluttony, jt you watch.