So what are you doing for Pride?

[ruthie14]

So Pride in NJ is tomorrow in Asbury Park. Today is Leather fest type mini pride, went to that last year. Not into the scene myself, but the people and the entertainment were great. Next Sunday is Philly Pride. I am definately going to NJ pride. It is smaller by far the Philly, but big enough to be fun and meet some new people. It is less then a block from the beach so what is not to love about that. Going with a small group of friends, ( few from here) bringing my lunch and some vodka soaked gummy worms! lol :happyjump:

Now I am curious what everyone else is doing. What does your state/town/city do for pride? :deepthoughts:

[Rainbow90]

Going to NJ Pride!!!!!!!!! My first pride ever!!!!! Hoping it doesn't storm tomorrow!

[Leigh]

Tomorrow is the big pride here in Winnipeg, and because I only had surgery two weeks ago I'm still not healed up enough to be able to go and I'm sooooo mad about that :(

But there is always next year!

[ruthie14]

Awww Yeah. I hope you heal quickly honey!

[Leigh]

I do too, because being stuck in the house all the time isnt any fun :(

[ruthie14]

Going to NJ Pride!!!!!!!!! My first pride ever!!!!! Hoping it doesn't storm tomorrow!

YEAH!!!! I hear you are going with some old broad. lol :rofl:

[HowSoonIsNow]

I've already attended an awesome play that benefitted LBTQI youth of my community. I would like to go to another play tonight, but I am battling an awful cold!

My city's Pride isn't until August, and has really gained momentum over the years --not sure if I'll be in town for the big event but seems that there are all kinds of fundraisers and little events sprinkled before the big Pride Day!


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[Rainbow90]

YEAH!!!! I hear you are going with some old broad. lol :rofl:

You do realize you just made fun of yourself?? lmao
I cant not wait!!!!! I havent been this excited in a while about something lol.

[Strappie]

Minnesota's Pride is June 22-27 ....

My Niece is getting married on Saturday of Pride. But I'm not missing Pride and she knows I wouldn't....

So Friday Night we start out around 6pm and head to a friends house for a huge Pride party. During the night we walk over to the Block Party and listen to some great out door music. Then back over to the friends house to cap off the night around 2-4 am...

Saturday.. Normally we get about 30 or so ppl and we have a golf tourney. However this year I have to skip it due to the wedding. :( Oh well I will have fun at the Wedding and dance!

Sunday.. Back up at the crack ass of dawn to head back to Mpls for the PRIDE PARADE by 10am for pre cocktails before the Parade at 11am. We party in the streets till the Parade is over (it's about 3.5hrs long) Then off to the Park were they have all the tents set up for all the million vendors that come out to support us. Then to the beer gardens to listen to music and see ppl I haven't seen but once a year.. lol

I hope you all have a SAFE and HAPPY PRIDE!!!

[Softly]

Philly Pride is the 13th and I will be volunteering.

[DapperButch]

I try to go to Philly's and Delaware's Prides. :LGBTQFlag:

DE is always late in the season...September 18th this year. It is in Rehoboth Beach and I really think that it would be larger if they had in it Northern DE. I think that most people don't travel down for it and instead just go to Philadelphia's.

I like Philly's Pride better (next week, as others have said), but I won't be able to make it this year.

I also try to go to Philly's Outfest (October 10th).

:LGBTQFlag:

[Miss Scarlett]

:LGBTQFlag:They've moved Pride Charlotte from July at Gateway Village to October at the NC Music Factory - a decision that, as a founding member and past
Co-Chair, I don't agree with.

But I will go because this festival is my child and I believe in Pride celebrations. And because I have a deep appreciation of the tremendous effort it takes to put together an event such as this.:LGBTQFlag:

[ruthie14]

I like outfest too! We should try to meet up if you go this year. Would be fun!


I try to go to Philly's and Delaware's Prides. :LGBTQFlag:

DE is always late in the season...September 18th this year. It is in Rehoboth Beach and I really think that it would be larger if they had in it Northern DE. I think that most people don't travel down for it and instead just go to Philadelphia's.

I like Philly's Pride better (next week, as others have said), but I won't be able to make it this year.

I also try to go to Philly's Outfest (October 10th).

:LGBTQFlag:

[Kobi]

I live my pride 24/7/365.
So asking me what am I doing for pride is like asking me what I am doing for the rest of my life.... living as a proud lesbian. :)

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[HowSoonIsNow]

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From Key West Trash to Treasure: Landfill Becomes Big Gay Beacon (http://www.queerty.com/from-key-west-trash-to-treasure-landfill-becomes-big-gay-beacon-20100607/)



THE SHOT — With the help of a dozen volunteers, John Mumford and Rick Worth spent Friday painting "Mt. Trashmore" (the nickname of Key West's giant landfill, which happens to be the islands' highest point) with this 125×60-foot pride flag. It took 87 gallons of paint.

"I thought this would be a great way to get people into the spirit of PrideFest and promote the PrideFest events," says Mumford, who sits on the local business guild organizing Key West's pride, which kicks off Wednesday.

[DapperButch]

I like outfest too! We should try to meet up if you go this year. Would be fun!


Sounds good to me!

[lipstixgal]

Anyone going to the gay pride in New York City?? Would love to meet up with some people from the area!!

[Jet]

Just another day.

[Logicaly]

My girl and I are going to SF Pride. So if anyones going to it, or will be in town for it, let us know. We will be at the Trans March Friday, Dyke March Saturday, and the parade on Sunday.

[Andrew, Jr.]

Nothing. It will be another day for me. I live my life as I am. I celebrate each and every day as a gift. That is about the best I can do for now.

Happy Pride to All!

[TheBellyBionic]

Portland Pride is 6/19-20. On Saturday, we're having a Pride Kick-Off BBQ at our house. Then on Sunday we're getting downtown *early* to find parking, then we'll walk the dog around to see all the groups lined up and get a good parade spot, then go to the festival after the parade.

Last year we had the bright idea to park on our side of the river and just walk across the Hawthorne Bridge to get there rather than fighting all the traffic and trying to find downtown parking. We found out a little too late that crossing the bridge completely freaks out the dog. So this time we'll change our plan to accommodate him.

[mxxi]

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[Lady Pamela]

Went to pride last Saturday with my grandaughter. We had a freakin blast!

She went on her first Dyke March and said she was going to every year from now on...lol

[Fancy]

Western NY seems to be a month behind the rest of the country.

I'll be doing volunteer work at some Pride events. ...looking forward to it!

:rainbowAfro:

[AtLast]

Usually, I am active in various Pride activities in the SF Bay Area. This year, due to some personal stuff going on and just an inward depression about the Gulf spill, and what is going on in only Arizona (and elsewhere), I have to admit, I'm not into Pride. My priorities are just elsewhere.

I will probably attend the Dyke & Trans parades, but, most likely not the larger, Gay Pride Parade. And I'll just do the parade part and not stick around for the couple of hundred thousand drunk people partying in the Castro afdter each of these. Haven't actually done that in some years. I hope to go to a couple of independent films via the LGBTIQ festivals here in the East Bay.

I do want every part of the LGBTIQ community to enjoy pride in whatever way they choose. However, I really see the need for much more political and social activism among us all. I wish we were celebrating the passage of ENDA (but, there has been movement on DADT) and here in CA, the overturn of Prop 8 or a positive result for the cases now going to the SC during pride this year. How about some solid anti-hate crime legislation?

As one friend of mine said, If we can bring over 200,000 queers here to party and fuck, why can't we get our politics done and stop the hate?

I do wish everyone a safe and fruitful Pride no matter where you are and what is planned for your area!!!

[HowSoonIsNow]

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[HowSoonIsNow]

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[julieisafemme]

I'm going to here Rabbi Steven Greenberg speak on Homosexuality and Halachah (Jewish law). He is the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi. He has written extensively on the subject. It should be a really good conversation!

[lipstixgal]

I'm going to here Rabbi Steven Greenberg speak on Homosexuality and Halachah (Jewish law). He is the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi. He has written extensively on the subject. It should be a really good conversation!

Oh wow I'm Jewish and don't know of any openly gay orthodox Rabbi's. I thought that orthodox doesn't believe in homosexuality?? Anyway, tomorrow is gay pride in NYC going to meet up with some people for after parade luncheon or brunch somewhere in NY!!! Anybody else??

[AtLast]

This afternoon, Fabled Asp will be honored at the SF Dyke March (4:30 PST). Great to see the disabled dykes get their due.

I will be among friends watching those fantastic Dykes ON Bykes ride!! Then some socializing in the Castro...

Our annual Trans Parade took place and on Sunday the broader Gay Pride Parade and festivities will take place. WHOA... I attended the first, yet small, unorganized Gay Pride Parade in SF in 1970 (at age 19 and as a straight ally)and then the one in 1972 (at that one, I identified as bisexual) that really kicked it off as a yearly organized and funded SF event. The days of Harvey Milk.... remember him in the big pink 50's Caddy riding during his election efforts. OMG!! I am old!

What history to take in!!

[Boots13]

I'm working..
:police:

I get to stand on the sidelines,
waving to all my friends !

[Rook]

I must be getting old....
In my teens and early 20s you couldn't find me anywhere other than Pride events {Leather*I loved my USMC uniform*, Gay or Dyke March} around this time...

Nowadays?

I often miss both, I figure, just by being in Public I cause "awareness" and show my "Pride"...Specially when I hafta use the Loo....

This year, however, I did attend some LGBTQ events {Pride paraphernalia designing for fundraising/AIDS awareness week/Day of Silence}
&
A rather feminist rally, Take Back the Night, although, I was one of the precious few who felt excluding Men from the 'March' sent the wrong message {at least, in Athens...and sadly we were proven right, 1 week later a bio-male student was 'assaulted'..viciously}

so yeah....:tea:
Eventually I'll make it to a Pride March or Dyke March, when I get a liscence...mebbe visit each nearby city..heh
:blink: :sunglass:
:LGBTQFlag::puertorico::leatherflag:

[CherylNYC]

I'm running some last minute errands so that everything will be ready for the big day in NYC tomorrow. As always, the Sirens Women's Motorcycle Club will be leading the motorcycle contingent down 5th Ave. at the front of the Parade. We expect well over 150 bikes to join us. Yay! I'm a founding member of the Sirens, as well as the current V.P. We'll be celebrating our 25th anniversary next year, and we've been leading the NYC Pride Parade every year since 1987.

Sadly, all parades and marches in NYC have been shortened by 25% this year because of the fiscal crisis. The Parade route starts at 36th St. and 5th Ave. We won't even pass by the NYPL, much less St. Pats. It's a disappointment, but we hope the route will be restored when times get better. We will still pass the Stonewall Inn and end at Christopher and Hudson St, as usual.

All riders are invited to join us. Please meet us at the motorcycle staging area on 41st St and Madison Ave. We will be registering bikes starting at 9 AM. Please arrive by 11:00 AM. If you get there after we've moved to 5th Ave. the police may not allow you to join us.

OK, one more banner to deliver and then it's off to the Dyke March!

[Rook]

For those in SF that are Deaf, Trans n Queer:

http://news.deafqueer.org/2010/06/25/sf-pride-weekend-2010/

:police::deaf::aslpeacelove:

[julieisafemme]

Oh wow I'm Jewish and don't know of any openly gay orthodox Rabbi's. I thought that orthodox doesn't believe in homosexuality?? Anyway, tomorrow is gay pride in NYC going to meet up with some people for after parade luncheon or brunch somewhere in NY!!! Anybody else??

It's not so much not believing in homosexuality. They agree it exists. It is that according to Torah and rabbinic Orthodox Judaism it is prohibited. This is changing slowly in the Orthodox community. Rabbi Greenberg was in film called Trembling Before G-d about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews. It was a really interesting conversation for Jews and just queers in general. Happy Pride to you in NYC!!!

[Jet]

Nothing. It's just another day.

[Abigail Crabby]

Unfortunately I will be between places for Pride this year but I look forward to attending next year.

I carry my Queer Pride always but I do enjoy a good celebration :jester:

[HowSoonIsNow]

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Police officers detain a gay rights activist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Russian police detained several gay rights activists apparently for holding an unsanctioned rally. Two dozens activists unfurled banners and chanted "Homophobia the shame of the country" and "Marriage rights without compromises" before police moved in seizing six people, who offered little resistance. AP

Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/71109/#ixzz0s0iJ73iK

[Rook]

There are some who even Risk Death, sadly...If they say or show Pride...

http://www.al-fatiha.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Fatiha_Foundation

:candle::mohawk::candle::vigil:

[HowSoonIsNow]

It was June 27th, 1969.
(http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/)
The day that the fags, dykes, and queens of New York City finally said "Enough!" For some historical perspective, I'm posting the story that the New York Daily News ran about the Stonewall Riots. Note how the story drips with condescension and ridicule. We've come a long, long way in 41 years and we've still got some distance to cover, but today we should all offer up a shout, a snap, and a moment of thanks to the people who started us down this road.

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HOMO NEST RAIDED - QUEEN BEES ARE STINGING MAD

-by Jerry Lisker, New York Daily News, July 6th 1969

She sat there with her legs crossed, the lashes of her mascara-coated eyes beating like the wings of a hummingbird. She was angry. She was so upset she hadn't bothered to shave. A day old stubble was beginning to push through the pancake makeup. She was a he. A queen of Christopher Street.

Last weekend the queens had turned commandos and stood bra strap to bra strap against an invasion of the helmeted Tactical Patrol Force. The elite police squad had shut down one of their private gay clubs, the Stonewall Inn at 57 Christopher St., in the heart of a three-block homosexual community in Greenwich Village. Queen Power reared its bleached blonde head in revolt. New York City experienced its first homosexual riot. "We may have lost the battle, sweets, but the war is far from over," lisped an unofficial lady-in-waiting from the court of the Queens.

"We've had all we can take from the Gestapo," the spokesman, or spokeswoman, continued. "We're putting our foot down once and for all." The foot wore a spiked heel. According to reports, the Stonewall Inn, a two-story structure with a sand painted brick and opaque glass facade, was a mecca for the homosexual element in the village who wanted nothing but a private little place where they could congregate, drink, dance and do whatever little girls do when they get together.

The thick glass shut out the outside world of the street. Inside, the Stonewall bathed in wild, bright psychedelic lights, while the patrons writhed to the sounds of a juke box on a square dance floor surrounded by booths and tables. The bar did a good business and the waiters, or waitresses, were always kept busy, as they snaked their way around the dancing customers to the booths and tables. For nearly two years, peace and tranquility reigned supreme for the Alice in Wonderland clientele.

The Raid Last Friday

Last Friday the privacy of the Stonewall was invaded by police from the First Division. It was a raid. They had a warrant. After two years, police said they had been informed that liquor was being served on the premises. Since the Stonewall was without a license, the place was being closed. It was the law.

All hell broke loose when the police entered the Stonewall. The girls instinctively reached for each other. Others stood frozen, locked in an embrace of fear.

Only a handful of police were on hand for the initial landing in the homosexual beachhead. They ushered the patrons out onto Christopher Street, just off Sheridan Square. A crowd had formed in front of the Stonewall and the customers were greeted with cheers of encouragement from the gallery.

The whole proceeding took on the aura of a homosexual Academy Awards Night. The Queens pranced out to the street blowing kisses and waving to the crowd. A beauty of a specimen named Stella wailed uncontrollably while being led to the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall by a cop. She later confessed that she didn't protest the manhandling by the officer, it was just that her hair was in curlers and she was afraid her new beau might be in the crowd and spot her. She didn't want him to see her this way, she wept.

Queen Power

The crowd began to get out of hand, eye witnesses said. Then, without warning, Queen Power exploded with all the fury of a gay atomic bomb. Queens, princesses and ladies-in-waiting began hurling anything they could get their polished, manicured fingernails on. Bobby pins, compacts, curlers, lipstick tubes and other femme fatale missiles were flying in the direction of the cops. The war was on. The lilies of the valley had become carnivorous jungle plants.

Urged on by cries of "C'mon girls, lets go get'em," the defenders of Stonewall launched an attack. The cops called for assistance. To the rescue came the Tactical Patrol Force.

Flushed with the excitement of battle, a fellow called Gloria pranced around like Wonder Woman, while several Florence Nightingales administered first aid to the fallen warriors. There were some assorted scratches and bruises, but nothing serious was suffered by the honeys turned Madwoman of Chaillot.

Official reports listed four injured policemen with 13 arrests. The War of the Roses lasted about 2 hours from about midnight to 2 a.m. There was a return bout Wednesday night.

Two veterans recently recalled the battle and issued a warning to the cops. "If they close up all the gay joints in this area, there is going to be all out war."

Bruce and Nan

Both said they were refugees from Indiana and had come to New York where they could live together happily ever after. They were in their early 20's. They preferred to be called by their married names, Bruce and Nan.

"I don't like your paper," Nan lisped matter-of-factly. "It's anti-fag and pro-cop."

"I'll bet you didn't see what they did to the Stonewall. Did the pigs tell you that they smashed everything in sight? Did you ask them why they stole money out of the cash register and then smashed it with a sledge hammer? Did you ask them why it took them two years to discover that the Stonewall didn't have a liquor license."

Bruce nodded in agreement and reached over for Nan's trembling hands.

"Calm down, doll," he said. "Your face is getting all flushed."

Nan wiped her face with a tissue.

"This would have to happen right before the wedding. The reception was going to be held at the Stonewall, too," Nan said, tossing her ashen-tinted hair over her shoulder.

"What wedding?," the bystander asked.

Nan frowned with a how-could-anybody-be-so-stupid look. "Eric and Jack's wedding, of course. They're finally tying the knot. I thought they'd never get together."

Meet Shirley

"We'll have to find another place, that's all there is to it," Bruce sighed. "But every time we start a place, the cops break it up sooner or later."

"They let us operate just as long as the payoff is regular," Nan said bitterly. "I believe they closed up the Stonewall because there was some trouble with the payoff to the cops. I think that's the real reason. It's a shame. It was such a lovely place. We never bothered anybody. Why couldn't they leave us alone?"

Shirley Evans, a neighbor with two children, agrees that the Stonewall was not a rowdy place and the persons who frequented the club were never troublesome. She lives at 45 Christopher St.

"Up until the night of the police raid there was never any trouble there," she said. "The homosexuals minded their own business and never bothered a soul. There were never any fights or hollering, or anything like that. They just wanted to be left alone. I don't know what they did inside, but that's their business. I was never in there myself. It was just awful when the police came. It was like a swarm of hornets attacking a bunch of butterflies."

A reporter visited the now closed Stonewall and it indeed looked like a cyclone had struck the premises.

Police said there were over 200 people in the Stonewall when they entered with a warrant. The crowd outside was estimated at 500 to 1,000. According to police, the Stonewall had been under observation for some time. Being a private club, plain clothesmen were refused entrance to the inside when they periodically tried to check the place. "They had the tightest security in the Village," a First Division officer said, "We could never get near the place without a warrant."

Police Talk

The men of the First Division were unable to find any humor in the situation, despite the comical overtones of the raid.

"They were throwing more than lace hankies," one inspector said. "I was almost decapitated by a slab of thick glass. It was thrown like a discus and just missed my throat by inches. The beer can didn't miss, though, "it hit me right above the temple."

Police also believe the club was operated by Mafia connected owners. The police did confiscate the Stonewall's cash register as proceeds from an illegal operation. The receipts were counted and are on file at the division headquarters. The warrant was served and the establishment closed on the grounds it was an illegal membership club with no license, and no license to serve liquor.

The police are sure of one thing. They haven't heard the last from the Girls of Christopher Street.

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They sure fucking haven't. Now get your ass up and get down to the parade.

[FR]

--- I am watching the SF pride parade on my television on KOFY in the comfort of my bedroom. cheers Queers! happy pride everyone!
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o i think i just saw a (ahem) horsey-hehe

[Miss_Tia]

Our local Pride Center just broke ground for a community garden to be housed at our Pride Center, with memorials in it for AIDS and President Buchanan. Did you know there is much thought that Buchanan was our first and perhaps only gay president? I didnt know that!

So, I have offered to help however they need me to help.

Its not the same thing as a Pride parade, but its for our Pride Center...