Miss Gay Pri of Portland on 2023 Portland, OR Pri Ft, Para

Contents:

• LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY PRI
• IS GAY PRI MONTH CELEBRATED OTHER UNTRI? WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGT EVENTS?
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• IS GAY PRI ON TODAY AND WHERE ARE THE PARAS?

LGBTQ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR DISNEY'S GAY DAYS CELEBRATN

As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers.

”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter. But you have to be you, no matter what, Barn 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 BatllePri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016.

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

Rabow 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.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

— Tens of thoands of LGBTQ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long though Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers have champned a slew of anti-LGBTQ laws — spurrg the most proment gay rights group the U.

And other civil rights anizatns to issue warngs the Sunshe State may no longer be safe — Gay Days anizers are still enuragg visors om around the world to e to one of Florida’s largt gay and lbian say a large turnout will send a msage that LGBTQ people are not gog away Florida, which is ntually one of the most popular stat for tourists to vis.

If the hoped-for 150, 000 or more visors e to the half-week of pool parti, drag bgo and thrill ris at Orlando’s theme parks and hotels, then “that’s the pot, ” said Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc. ”It’s not lost on the anizers that the highlight of the weekend will be a Saturday meetup of LGBTQ visors at the Magic Kgdom at Walt Disney World, where the first Gay Days started as a sgle-day celebratn 1991. Currently, Disney is embroiled a legal fight wh DeSantis over the ernor and Republin lawmakers’ takeover of Disney World’s erng district — after Disney officials publicly opposed legislatn that crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

“It’s ls a csa and more like, ‘I’m not gog to spend my money where bad thgs are gog on, ’” Hayn Days has survived past challeng, cludg the early years when Disney posted signs at the Magic Kgdom’s entrance warng visors there was a large gatherg of gays and lbians and offerg pass to other parks for guts who might be offend. Over the last three s, though, the theme parks and rorts have thrown down the wele mats as Gay Days has bee a profable bounce between the sprg break and out-of-school summer crowds.

Durg Gay Days the 1990s, hundreds of anti-abortn activists wh Operatn Rcue protted outsi Walt Disney World, and the Southern Baptist Conventn ced the gatherg llg for a boytt of all thgs Disney.

GAY PRI

Some Christian groups tried to buy air time durg Gay Days the late 1990s to prsure people to renounce their sexual orientatn, but mastream TV statns Orlando rejected the ads.

IS GAY PRI MONTH CELEBRATED OTHER UNTRI? WHERE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGT EVENTS?

Print Bill Clton first signated as Gay and Lbian Pri Month on June 11, 1999, wh Print Barack Obama proclaimg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month 10 years later.

We celebrate June to ci wh the talyst of the Gay Liberatn Movement that was the Stonewall Uprisg. In the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, police raid a popular gay bar N.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

She was a Black trans woman celebratg her 25th birthday at the time of the rts and a tour force the gay muny.

Stormé DeLarverie was a gay rights activist and drag performer who was also at Stonewall when was raid that night.

IS GAY PRI ON TODAY AND WHERE ARE THE PARAS?

The first march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) - a group first formed the US, who wanted to take a stand agast 1970, the group cid to hold s first para, on the one year anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn 1969 - where LGBT+ patrons had been targeted by the New York Police Department. Throughout the para, there will also be a few performanc across stag certa are the different stag:• Trafalgar Square Stage Mic om: Wt End Cast of SIX the Mil, Jahan, Kgs Elltt, Wners of Pri's Got Talent 2023, Homoparody, Jack Hawt, Stars Louis III, Dylan & the Moon, Ida Menzel, Todrick Hall and Adam Lambert.