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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and 700 Employees March in San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade
Share this: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with 700 of his employees marched in San Francisco’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration on Sunday morning. About 15% of its workforce — all wearing special t-shirts designed...
After Illinois Gay Marriage Fail Activists Want Politicians Banned From Chicago Pride Parade
Share this: So far more than 1400 people have signed a petition — posted over the weekend on change.org — that proposes to “deny entry of Illinois politicians in (the) 44th annual Chicago Pride Parade.” “105 days have passed in...
White House Releases 2013 Presidential Proclamation for LGBT Pride Month – Meh.
Share this: For Immediate Release May 31, 2013 LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2013 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION For more than two centuries, our Nation has struggled to transform the...
SF Pride Board Cancels Promised Follow-up Public Meeting on Bradley Manning
Share this:Protestors outside SF Pride Board offices (credit: Roy McKenzie, Castro Biscuit) After this shit-show debacle that was a public relations nightmare last week at the San Francisco Pride Board’s office, the Pride board released a statement...
Tell St. Petersburg, Russia’s Sister Cities to Suspend Ties Until Anti-Gay Law is Repealed
Share this:Activists in St. Petersburg are arrested for demonstrating against that city’s “gay propaganda” law. Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, became notorious last year for passing a law outlawing any kind of public...
Over ONE MILLION Revelers Attend Rio de Janeiro PRIDE in Brazil!
Share this: Over ONE Million loud and proud LGBT’s and straight allies in Brazil took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro this weekend to clebrate PRIDE. Pink News reports: More than a million people took part in Rio’s annual gay pride celebrations...
SF’s Castro Business Association Denies Request To Fly Flag for Trans Day of Remembrance November 20th
Share this:Photo by David Sweet Photography UPDATED: MUMC will fly the flag! I recently reported the following on another blog I write for about the neighborhood I live in, SF’s Castro district. The iconic flag pole at Market and Castro in Harvey...
Johannesburg PRIDE Counter-Protested By LGBT’s Over Hate Crimes and “Depoliticization”
Share this: Over 20,000 partygoers attended Johannesburg Pride (Joburg Pride) over the weekend but they interrupted by group of LGBT protestors who came out against the parades “party atmosphere” and were demonstrating against a recent...
Republican Rep. James Inhofe Incensed That Gay Servicemen Marched In Uniforms At San Diego PRIDE
Share this:Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) and the very unpopular Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK) are INCENSED over the fact that the Pentagon allowed LGBT servicemen to march in uniform in the San Diego Gay Pride Parade Wrote Inhofe in a letter to Defense Secretary...
