Story by Ed Salvato; image above urty of JetBlueArrive grand gay style for Long Beach Pri aboard JetBlue's JetPri flight #1969 partg San Francis Internatnal Airport on May 14, 2010 at 12:30PM and arrivg at Long Beach Airport at 2PM. This rabow-powered flight featur ribald and hilar edian, Pam Ann, servg as the flight's honorary purser. She's a straight woman female impersonator à la Dame Edna, who is a straight, married female impersonator. Go figure. The flight featur pk cktails, gift bags, and other goodi, the flight number which memorat the 1969 Stonewall Rts and the birth of the Gay Pri movement. Long Beach Pri is one of the biggt Pri celebratns the U.S., but also one of the most heartfelt and least mercialized. Pri like mom ed to make! (If mom were a ol lbian.)JetPri's flight is priced at the credibly low price of $79 per one-way ticket pl tax and fe. To purchase, you mt ntact the 'JetPri sk' at 888-538-2583 optn 4. It is not available onle sce 's an exclive offer. (See below for the 'fe prt.') Passengers have a wi range of optns to return to San Francis or Oakland (wh five and four daily flights, rpectively) is the first U.S. Pri flight as far as we know. The first North Amerin Pri flight (the "Pk Flight") took place 2008 wh Kathy Griff as the flight hosts, by all acunts an credibly fun trip. Travelers n bundle their JetPri flight wh a stay at the very ol Hotel Maya, which is the gay-iendly Joie Vivre fay of hotel properti and the first luxury boutique rort Long Beach. Hotel Maya offers a Pri package durg Long Beach Pri, cludg wele Pri-tis upon arrival. Also, JetPri ctomers n also receive a ee ticket to Long Beach Pri's Fale Tea Dance Party of Ameri's Gay Bachelor, an annual ntt hosted by (Photo: left Hotel Maya's ol entrance.)The 'Fe Prt' For plete tails ntact the 'JetPri sk' at 888-538-2583 optn 4. Availabily is limed and available only while suppli last. Travel mt be booked by May 7 or while suppli last. Sale far are available for purchase only by telephone at 1-888-JETBLUE (1-888-538-2583) via the meetgs sk (optn 4). Sale far are not available at , an airport or cy ticket office, or by any other method. Cancellatns and chang n be ma prr to schled parture for $100 per person at 1-800-JETBLUE (1-800-538-2583), TTY/TDD 1-800-336-5530, wh applible fare adjtment.
Contents:
- ENGLAND TO FLY TO WORLD CUP ON GAY PRI JET – TO SHOW RED RD TO QATAR’S TOLERANCE
- QATAR WORLD CUP: ENGLAND'S 'GAY PRI' PLANE PROTT IS DWARFED BY GERMANY'S 'DIVERSY WS' JET
- WHILE YOU WERE ASLEEP: ENGLAND FLY TO WORLD CUP ON PRI JET, HUMPHERI FIRST TO E OUT AS A GAY PLAYER ATRALIA’S NBBL, NKUNKU OUT OF WORLD CUP
- US ARY GO FULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARD MAX LGBT CLN WH ‘DIVERSY’ PANELS, ALL-GAY HELIPTER CREW
- GAY PRI
ENGLAND TO FLY TO WORLD CUP ON GAY PRI JET – TO SHOW RED RD TO QATAR’S TOLERANCE
ENGLAND’s Three Lns fly to the World Cup on a Gay Pri jet tomorrow — to show a red rd to host natn Qatar’s Gareth South * gay pride jet *
) ed the registratn “GAY” on an A330 to show s support for LGBT muni, while Atralia’s Qantas also gave an A330 a lorful makeover 2017, wrg the airle’s name rabow lors and addg a Pri flag to the kangaroo logo on s tail.
ENGLAND’s Three Lns fly to the World Cup on a Gay Pri jet tomorrow — to show a red rd to host natn Qatar’s tolerance. The gture was proposed by FA chiefs keen to register ncern about gay rights the strict Mlim state where homosexualy n still rry the ath penalty.
QATAR WORLD CUP: ENGLAND'S 'GAY PRI' PLANE PROTT IS DWARFED BY GERMANY'S 'DIVERSY WS' JET
* gay pride jet *
England's msage of World Cup fiance, directed towards the homophobic regime nng Qatar, has been dwarfed by old rivals Germany.
As so many World Cup penalty shootouts before, the Three Lns have once aga been tmped by Germans, this time a 'diversy fly out' Southgate's 26-strong team are jettg out to Qatar Virg Atlantic's Gay Pri plane, dubbed 'Ra Bow' jet featur a picture of Osr, a rtoon man holdg a Unn flag while wearg a small set rabow-loured traers, beneath the b. And sports the registratn number 'GV -PRD' - a nod to the Gay choice to jet out to the Middle East is seen as a clear challenge to Qatar, where is illegal to be homosexual. England and Germany are jt two of a handful of natns takg part the World Cup seekg to rebel agast Qatar's strict homophobic laws, amid wispread cricism of this year's tournament hosts.
WHILE YOU WERE ASLEEP: ENGLAND FLY TO WORLD CUP ON PRI JET, HUMPHERI FIRST TO E OUT AS A GAY PLAYER ATRALIA’S NBBL, NKUNKU OUT OF WORLD CUP
' FA chiefs proposed the ia to highlight ncerns over gay rights Qatar, where same-sex relatnships rema a crimal offence and whose World Cup Ambassador last week said homosexualy is 'damage the md' found participatg same-sex sexual activy Qatar n be punished by up to seven years prison, while there are also ncerns about thoands of migrant workers havg died Qatar sce won the rights to host the World has urged untri to foc on football durg the petn, but Southgate has said is 'highly unlikely' that England will do so.
'However, some teams have already been penalised for their efforts to fy strict Qatari Friday, boss at FIFA rejected the Danish team's requt to tra at the World Cup shirts wh the words 'human rights for all' on Danish Football Assotn nfirmed the cisn, as Qatar fac tense prsure over s treatment of migrant workers and s anti-homosexual laws.
US ARY GO FULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARD MAX LGBT CLN WH ‘DIVERSY’ PANELS, ALL-GAY HELIPTER CREW
Pri month was created 1999 by Print Bill Clton to regnize the gay and lbian muny and has sce been expand to clu the bisexual and transgenr muny. In 1982, a plete ban of gays the ary was set place and unr nearly 17, 000 men and women were discharged the next .
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The plete ban was then replaced by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1993, a policy prohibg service while openly gay.