Gay Pri Week In Review

Contents:

• GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
• SMALL TOWN THROWS PRI PARA FOR ONLY GAY RINT
• GAY PRI CELEBRATNS ACROSS U.S.
• GAY PRI WEEK IN REVIEW
• MORMONS TO MARCH IN GAY PRI PARA
• DRAMA & POPRN HAS SOMETHG GONE WRONG WH GAY PRI MARCH?
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY PRI CALENDAR

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. Participants Saturday's Los Angel Gay Pri Para, which helped change straight people's tolerant attus toward Week's Most Viral News: Augt 4, 2023OffEnglish"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.

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.

SMALL TOWN THROWS PRI PARA FOR ONLY GAY RINT

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. "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.

GAY PRI CELEBRATNS ACROSS U.S.

" 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. "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. 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.

GAY PRI WEEK IN REVIEW

Gays are all sick, immoral perverts. 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 that is discrimatory for stat to ny the right to the most out-of-ntrol, bonkers gay pri para that anyone uld possibly image, ” Jtice Anthony M.

MORMONS TO MARCH IN GAY PRI PARA

We’re talkg half-naked lbians vered body pat, rollerbladg homosexuals brightly lored Native Amerin headdrs and sparklg gold briefs, as well as hundreds of thoands of supporters losg their fuckg mds while ‘I Will Survive’ blar at 150 cibels. 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 Milk bobblehead day at Oracle ParkThe police partment will go door to door givg homosexuals a special permanent markg on their forehead so everyone n know whom to be proud ofWilliam is gog to proudly walk down Route 7 om the post office to the hardware store startg at 10 a.

DRAMA & POPRN HAS SOMETHG GONE WRONG WH GAY PRI MARCH?

If anyone wants to e cheer him onComplimentary prime rib for anyone who out to iends and fay at Harrah’sSix or seven gay guys are gog fishg up at the lake; should be a nice afternoonThis year’s para to be populated mostly by married men who are only gay while on vatnDue to last year’s poor turnout at the lol para, anizers will b some extra gays om MneapolisPri Para on Ma St.

Gay Pri Para Sets Mastream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years. "Wh the Mormon church, 's very progrsive to regnize gay people's right to walk around public.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

Origs of Pri MonthThe roots of the gay rights movement go back to the early 1900s, when a handful of dividuals North Ameri and Europe created gay and lbian anizatns such as the the Society for Human Rights, found by Henry Gerber Chigo the 1920s. Followg World War II, a small number of groups like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis published gay- and lbian-posive newsletters and grew more vol mandg regnn for, and prottg discrimatn agast, gays and lbians.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

In 1966, for example, members of the Mattache Society held a “sip-” prott at Juli, a bar New York Cy, where they mand drks after announcg that they were gay, vlatn of lol laws agast servg alhol to gays and lbians. Dpe some progrs the postwar era, basic civil rights were largely nied to gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people—until one night June, 1969, when the gay rights movement took a fur step forward wh a seri of vlent rts New York Cy.

Stonewall RtsAs was mon practice many ci, the New York Police Department would ocsnally raid bars and rtrants where gays and lbians were known to gather.