Marchers celebrate gay pri paras across the untry

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• MARCHERS CELEBRATE GAY PRI PARAS ACROSS THE UNTRY
• GAY PRI 2010
• GAY PRI
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

MARCHERS CELEBRATE GAY PRI PARAS ACROSS THE UNTRY

STORY HIGHLIGHTSLGBT people and their supporters march paras large and smallMarchers mand equaly, oppose discrimatn based on sexual intyParishners om New York church march but whout bannerShootg cint mars "Pk Saturday" ftivi San Francis (CNN) -- Gay pri was on display towns and ci across the Uned Stat Sunday as gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people -- and their supporters -- marched paras large and small to mand equaly, oppose discrimatn and exprs pri who they are. The atmosphere was ftive and open, as marchers rried handma signs wh msag cludg, "Straight but not narrow-md" and reprented groups cludg the New York Gay Bloggers. The gay pri para Mneapolis, Mnota, is nsired one of the biggt events the state -- last year's para drew more than half a ln people, acrdg to CNN affiliate KARE.

GAY PRI 2010

Anti-gay activist attends Tw Ci gay pri ft (KARE) There were no cints related to his prence, and some participants even stopped to engage him what appeared to be iendly bate.

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IReport: Scen om Arkansas para But San Francis, vlence shook the cy's neighborhood perhaps most associated wh gay pri, the Castro district. When the Conservativ last had their hands on the tiller of power, none of their MPs would adm to beg homosexual, they voted agast lowerg the age of nsent for gay sex, and vented a law which ma illegal for schools to mentn thgs change: tomorrow, eight years after Alan Dunn beme the first Tory MP to e out of his own voln, Nick Herbert, the openly gay Conservative policg mister, will give a speech at Pri London about "how the Tori have e a helluva long way" that's not all. His partment, the Home Office, has chartered a float at this year's event, which will wd s way down Oxford Street and Regent Street towards Trafalgar Square om 's theme this year is "Pat the Town Ruby Red", to mark the 40th anniversary of the creatn of the Gay Liberatn Front, which was formed after the Stonewall rts, when police clashed wh gay monstrators New Guardian n reveal that the Home Office float, officially manered by Spectm – the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) support group wh the partment – will be gog wh a Moul Rouge theme this, this do not mean the ln people lg the streets will tch a glimpse of Thera May a scy btier and feather boa as well as her tramark kten heels: the Home Secretary is not attendg, and anyway, the float is only for civil servants the Home Office, UK Borr Agency, Crimal Rerds Bure and Inty and Passport Service.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

"I'm not tellg you what I'll be wearg, " said Herbert, preferrg to talk about how serly the ernment was takg the reportg of homophobia as a hate year Spectm's effort was voted "the bt float the history of Pri", said Pl Bradley, Spectm's chair. We thk troducg progrsive legislatn [on civil partnerships, allowg gay upl to adopt and repealg Sectn 28] – often the face of Tory opposn – is what we will be judged on.

He has also charmed most of the LGBT groups wh the aln manifto, which said the ernment will help schools al wh homophobic bullyg, prsure other untri to support gay rights, ph for ternatnal regnn of UK civil partnerships and stop portg gay asylum seekers at risk of aln is so pro-gay that not only have they has set up a cross-ernment programme of work addrsg LGBT policy, but they have promised "addnal actn for transgenr equaly" - exactly the sort of iative the Tori ed to mock Harriet Harman for darg to suggt when she held the equali brief. This has been road to rights1967 Sexual Offenc Act crimalis homosexual acts between two men over 21 years of age " private" England and Wal. What a strange, embarrassg thg: To live one of the gayt ci Ameri, and yet fd that this very gay cy is pable of puttg on a smoothly n, succsful gay-pri celebratn each year.