Once a year, Santo Domgo hosts the DR’s biggt Pri Para, where drag queens, gays, lbians and all members of the rabow take over the streets of the Colonial Zone and walk wh their rabow flags held high.
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GAYS STT THEIR PRI SANTO DOMGO
- The gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, transgenr, tersex and queer muny (GLBTIQ) held s 11th annual Santo Domgo Natnal Pri Caravan 2018 on Sunday, verg much of Greater Santo Domgo and mandg more guarante of their fundamental rights. The gay pri motor set off around 3pm and meanred om Caamaño Deñó Av. SANTO DOMINGO, Domin Republic (ViaNews) – In what ncerns the public maniftatns of gay rights and sexual preferenc a lot has changed many untri and the Domin Republic is no exceptn.
Gays and lbians have been around forever, ’s the attus toward them that have changed. In the past, gay men and women were subject to ridicule and even physil aggrsn and some were prone to ntract fake marriag orr to keep their public image tact.
The different way gays and lbians are seen today mak easier to “leave the closet” and talkg about the topic or seeg public displays of affectn are now mon and done openly. Recently, El Día, a Domin Republic newspaper, published an article revealg that the openly gay Uned Stat Ambassador Jam Brewster and his partner, Mr Bob Satawake, had greeted the Domin Natn before leavg the untry and exprsed their good wish “on the last Christmas season they would spend here”. Needls to say, this would have been impossible some years ago and has given the gay muny an add boost their new-found level of public exprsn.
GAY PRI PARA DOMIN REPUBLIC: SHIFT THE UNTRY’S CULTURE?
Acrdg to Diar Digal, a Domin Republic newspaper, the ternatnal Gay Pri Day fds the Domin LGBTI muny volved public polici that promote cln, rpect and non-discrimatn for the members of the LGBTI muny. A CNN report asks: “What do Pope Francis really thk about homosexualy?
He said that they also discsed Cz’ sexualy, who is gay. The Italian magaze “Vatin Insir” and other Italian news media ma known that Francis spoke about homosexual men durg the semar of the Italian Epispal Conference a closed-door ssn. ” Which means that if someone is gay, they should not be allowed to study for the prithood.
This nnects Francis wh his precsor Benedict XVI, who published a document 2005 statg that “men wh profound homosexual tennci, should not be allowed to study for the prithood. Is OK to be Gay? Statg clearly, seems that for Francis beg homosexual and the church´s teachgs are not mutually exclive.