Gay pri march across U.S. take on celebratory, polil ton - CBS News

Contents:

• GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY
• THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD
• GAY PRI MARCH ACROSS U.S. TAKE ON CELEBRATORY, POLIL TON
• PHILLY GAY PRI 2017 – SO MANY FLAGS, AND FUNTASTIC PHOTOS OF THE DAY
• HOW THE TIM GAVE ‘GAY’ ITS OWN VOICE (AGA)
• SOME OF AMERI'S BT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS
• JIMMY JOHN’S REVEALS GAY SANDWICH FOR NEXT YEAR’S PRI

GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY

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Followg strong backlash om the uncil, the LGBT muny and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy, O’Neill has sisted he is not homophobic and jt wanted to “cross the le” for edic effect. Some of the s durg gay pri are not appropriate for the town centre.

I have even had gay people agree wh me. Not everyone wants to go paradg that they are gay.

THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD

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GAY PRI MARCH ACROSS U.S. TAKE ON CELEBRATORY, POLIL TON

Even the Boy Suts dropped s ban on gay wh the electn of Print Tmp and Vice Print Mike Pence, and the appotment of several bet members whose agendas are perceived by some as anti-gay, many realized that those gas uld be easily lost. ”So she, like many others, began phg to turn the natn’s pri paras to old-fashned prott march rponse to the potential unravelg of s of polil and social makeovers have brought tense nontatns between anizers who have spent months planng celebratns and those who thk the polil suatn is so dire that the paras need to be the middle, and feelg left out, are the people who jt want to show up and party, and the polilly nservative who nce that although gay pri march have always been somewhat polil nature, they have never been liberately bare-knuckle battl are nothg new when to pri celebratns. Muny know that queer street activism is as old and as predictable as the rabow, ” said Bob Weck, a munitns strategist and oime ngrsnal prs secretary who works wh the gay muny and bs like Marrtt that market to Hodgson for The New York Tim“We create drama as much as nont , ” Mr.

PHILLY GAY PRI 2017 – SO MANY FLAGS, AND FUNTASTIC PHOTOS OF THE DAY

”Conflict has been baked to gay pri march om the begng.

HOW THE TIM GAVE ‘GAY’ ITS OWN VOICE (AGA)

Even at the first march Manhattan 1970, anizers fought over whether should be lled a gay pri march or a gay power march. They even bated whether people who joed the 51-block march om Greenwich Village to Central Park should be required to follow a drs first march and rally (“a gay-” the parlance of the era) were staged on the first anniversary of the days of uprisgs that followed a police raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village.

SOME OF AMERI'S BT GAY PRI CELEBRATNS

Internal nflicts have bee a hallmark of gay pri march ever sce. They have weathered fights over how to rpond to the AIDS crisis and the fight for marriage equaly, and weighed whether acceptg lucrative rporate sponsorships was sellg year, grief and heightened ncerns about secury the aftermath of the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Fla., washed over many gay pri paras.

Last year, protters staged a boytt of the para, sayg the event had lost foc and was danger of beg ltle more than a mic ftival for the young that some lled a “gay Coachella. Early anizg meetgs were heated, wh groups like Gays Agast Guns, Rise and Rist, and Act Up prsg the mtee to clu prott groups or face havg tens of thoand of monstrators show up anyway and possibly lead to disptn and arrts.

Maro-Thomas, who is now a member of Gays Agast Guns and was adamant that what anizers are llg ristance groups be clud. ”Sue Doster, who has been a pri anizer New York and New Jersey for more than 20 years, ially worried about the logistics volved addg a wave of anti-Tmp protters to the mix, but said the two sis were not really that far the act of attendg a gay pri para or dancg the street wh a lover n be a form of prott when L. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPri Friedman for The New York TimJune 21, 2017SAN FRANCISCO — The artist John Criscello of Seattle first beme angry a few years ago about the chang his beloved neighborhood, Capol Hill, historilly the cy’s enclave for gay men and lbians.

JIMMY JOHN’S REVEALS GAY SANDWICH FOR NEXT YEAR’S PRI

He lled the area “a pe-and-leave drkg statn” for the cy’s young heterosexuals, who seemgly have ltle regard for, and some hostily toward, the gay people who have lived there sce the McGln for The New York TimSo Mr. Criscello rpond wh art, creatg a seri of provotive and sometim vulgar street murals that exriated the vadg mass as homophobic and sensive. “I wanted to poke a stick at the beehive of what was gog on, ” he MacBriSiar culture clash are playg out across the natn historilly gay districts, nicknamed gayborhoods.

Plac like Greenwich Village Manhattan and the Castro district San Francis, once cubators for the gay rights movement, have “straightened” recent s, leadg to cints of ristance and some angst about the effects on the L. Ls discrimatn means more optns of where to live, and many rints, pecially lennials, no longer believe they mt huddle among their own kd to survive and long ago, gay men and lbians had to create their own muni for safety and Meltz for The New York TimMany of Ameri’s gayborhoods emerged durg World War II, acrdg to Am Ghaziani, associate profsor at the Universy of Brish Columbia, Vanuver, and thor of the new book “Sex Cultur.

” The Uned Stat ary’s strict prohibns agast gay men and lbians meant that anyone even spected of homosexualy was discharged, most often ci wh major ary bas, such as San Francis, New York Cy, Seattle, Miami and New Orleans.