Boy Suts n't wear uniforms at gay pri para, official says

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• BOY SUTS GO OM BANNG GAY PARTICIPANTS TO PARTICIPATG GAY PRI PARA 8 SHORT YEARS
• BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA WH FULLY NAKED MEN — YOUNG CHILDREN AUDIENCE
• BOY SUTS BAR SUTS FROM WEARG UNIFORM IN GAY PRI PARAS OR FLAG CEREMONI
• BOY SUTS N'T WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI PARA, OFFICIAL SAYS
• SUTS FY LEARS AT GAY PRI PARA
• BOY SUTS MARCH IN UNIFORM AT UTAH GAY PRI PARA

BOY SUTS GO OM BANNG GAY PARTICIPANTS TO PARTICIPATG GAY PRI PARA 8 SHORT YEARS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWh Rabow Neckerchiefs, Celebratg Pri and Progrs at Estr/The New York TimJune 29, 2014The lor guard leadg the annual Gay Pri March down Fifth Avenue Manhattan on Sunday rried flags of sky blue, navy blue, red-whe-and-blue and rabow.

But, for the marchers, the lors that mattered most were the on they shirts, olive pants and rabow neckerchiefs: the Boy Sut uniform, pri-style — a uniform that had never been seen on a group of marchers New York Cy’s pri para had e to mark progrs — the Boy Suts of Ameri’s breakthrough vote last year to end a s-old policy of prohibg openly gay youths om beg suts — and to ll for more. However, the anizatn, a touchstone of tradnal Ameri, still bars openly gay adults om participatg as troop lears or volunteers.

Endg that ban has bee a signature e for the gay-rights movement. “I want gay parents to have the opportuny to sut wh their children, ” said Greg Bourke, 56, who said he was forced to step down as a lear of his son’s troop Kentucky two years ago after lol Suts officials learned he was gay and threatened to revoke the troop’s charter.

BOY SUTS MARCH SEATTLE GAY PRI PARA WH FULLY NAKED MEN — YOUNG CHILDREN AUDIENCE

Knapp, 87, rried said all: “Boy Sut lear kicked out for beg gay. Boy Sut officials have said that suts are forbidn to wear their uniforms events that support social or polil posns, cludg gay pri events, and have discipled suts and sutmasters other stat for dog so.

A spokman for the natnal anizatn cled to ment on the group of marchers, which clud parents and straight supporters of the gay rights movement as well as gay and straight suts and lears. (In addn, a ntgent of ty Daisy Suts and Cub Suts trotted around, wavg marriage equaly flags) Knapp has spent the years sce his oter agatg for gay rights sutg, and has marched the para for years wh Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays, or Pflag, a natnal group, rryg a versn of the same sign and wearg his uniform. ”Nearby, Pasl Tsier, 17, of Kensgton, Md., who is believed to be the first openly gay Eagle Sut, patiently awaed the start of the ftivi.

“I woke up that morng very nervo, thkg, ‘This uld be the last day I n ll myself a sut, ’ ” he said, referrg to the day of last year’s vote to allow gay youths. ”As the group passed the Stonewall Inn, the Wt Village bar known as a landmark the gay-rights movement, he and the other marchers psed and gave the Sut Brownste, a Boy Sut lear om Utah, was forced to leave his troop after marchg the Salt Lake Cy pri event last year.

BOY SUTS BAR SUTS FROM WEARG UNIFORM IN GAY PRI PARAS OR FLAG CEREMONI

”A rrectn was ma onJuly 1, 2014: An article on Monday about the annual Gay Pri March down Fifth Avenue Manhattan overstated the signifince of an uprisg 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.

BOY SUTS N'T WEAR UNIFORMS AT GAY PRI PARA, OFFICIAL SAYS

The cint, which lbians and gays fought back agast a police raid, is wily seen as a major turng pot the fight for gay rights. But the Stonewall Inn is not the se where the gay-rights movement was born. (Natnal gay-rights anizatns had existed for s before Stonewall.

Back 2015, the Boy Suts of Ameri anizatn officially end s blanket ban on gay participants an effort to acrd wh the spir of the Obergefell Supreme Court cisn, which, at the time, had jt effectively legalized gay marriage throughout the Uned Stat.

SUTS FY LEARS AT GAY PRI PARA

Jt a ago, BSA was embroiled ntroversy for excludg gay suts and sut lears. Many lol chapters were chartered wh relig anizatns, which often forba homosexualy, as well as all extramaral sexual all changed after Obergefell. Cg that “sea change the law wh rpect to gay rights, ” Natnal BSA Executive Board members voted overwhelmgly July 2015 to end the anizatn's ban on gay members.

In 2015, Gat scribed the BSA ban on homosexual participants as "unstaable. They may even exclu openly gay sut lears, a move that BSA says "rpects the right of relig chartered anizatns to ntue to choose adult lears whose beliefs are nsistent wh their own. Boy Suts March Seattle Gay Pri Para Wh Fully Naked Men — Young Children Audience.

BOY SUTS MARCH IN UNIFORM AT UTAH GAY PRI PARA

This year’s Seattle gay pri para featured the Boy Suts marchg alongsi pletely naked men on bicycl. WASHINGTON — A month after votg to allow gay youth to participate the Boy Suts, the group's learship warned suts this week that participatg gay pri paras uniform — even if jt to participate a flag ceremony — is agast "longstandg policy.

""Participatn a Gay Pri para or other siarly sponsored event would fall unr this policy. "The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, which has been heavily volved supportg advot of clive Sutg, lled the move "worrisome" Friday — potg to Boy Suts' regular participatn ethnic herage paras, such at St.

"It is worrisome that after the Boy Suts' membership voted to allow gay Suts jt last month, one of the anizatn's first actns is an attempt to dissociate the BSA wh celebratns for the gay muny. The Boy Suts should not force the untls number of alli who support gay Amerins and are proud BSA Members to be silent about their Sutg inty, " GLAAD vice print of munitns Rich Ferraro told BuzzFeed. "Brownste, 53, and a machery appraiser Salt Lake Cy, was jt startg to anize for the Utah Pri Para to be held Salt Lake Cy after last week's historic vote by the Boy Suts of Ameri to allow openly gay youth to jo the program.