Venice Pride and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation have partnered to create what they hope will be the world’s largest, free-flying Gay Pride flag. It will be flown for three days, starting June 1, in Venice Beach for Venice Pride, and then will be sent to San Francisco from June 23 to 25 for the flag’s 40th anniversary…
For its momentous 10th year, Miami Beach Gay Pride 2018 will feature a week’s worth of events starting Monday, April 2 with the official Pride rainbow flag-raising ceremony at City Hall and the Miss Miami Beach Gay Pride pageant, which moves to glamorous new digs at the Faena Theater, 3201 Collins Ave.
Are you in the process of planning an international vacation for 2018? If so, why not plan it around one of the major Pride events around the world? Gay Star News out of the UK has put together very comprehensive list of the major Pride celebrations around the world.
As Starkville Pride gears up for its LGBT parade this Saturday, a piece of history will march in the streets with participants. Known as Section No. 93, the enormous 25-foot-long, 14-feet-wide rainbow flag is making the journey from Key West, Florida to Starkville, Mississippi.
Why do we need Barbados Pride? Well, walking down the street is a traumatic experience for many LGBTI Barbadians. At first glance, Barbadian LGBTI people appear to have relatively safe, full lives. People often ask us: ‘Why don’t you just live your lives and stop fighting for rights, no one is troubling you?’
The modern-day gay civil rights movement had its beginnings in the Stonewall riots of 1969. Police raided the popular gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969. Violence and protests erupted in the streets and lasted for six days.
Isaac Mugisha, co-ordinator of Pride Uganda, is determined and optimistic that Ugandan LGBTs will hold a Pride event in Kampala later this year, without it being shut down by the authorities. If the event does go ahead, it will be the first Pride held successfully in the East African country since 2015.
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