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A convertible carrying the grand marshal in Saturday's gay PrideFest parade struck and killed a man just as the event began in downtown Anchorage, police said.

A court says San Diego firefighters cannot be forced to participate in homosexual "pride" parades -- and that the city's forcing four of them to do so three years ago subjected them to "sexual harassment." Four San Diego firefighters filed suit against the city in 2009 and won in the case surrounding their forced participation in a 2007 "gay pride" parade. The city, however, appealed that decision -- and Alliance Defense Fund attorney Joe Infranco tells OneNewsNow that the appellate court agreed Thursday with the lower court. "[The court found] that they had been sexually harassed by the city's compelling...

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Chicago's Nettlehorst Elementary School will be the first public school in the community to march in the city's gay pride parade. According to the Tribune, the school's fence is adorned with thousands of green, blue, purple, and red strips of fabric -- each hand-tied by a student. A sign by the gate stated that the elementary school will "be the first Chicago public school to march in the city's gay pride parade." The sign also stated that the school believes that family means everybody. OneNewsNow contacted Nettlehorst Elementary School and requested an interview with...

Homosexual Youth Pride Day: State-sponsored homosexual & transgender activities for children PART I: "Celebration" in downtown Boston. With lots of strange adults everywhere. You can't make this stuff up. The MC of the day's event was a man dressed as a woman. This is what your politicians think of you and your children.

For the second consecutive year, a gay pride parade and festival was marked by the arrest of a Wichita pastor. But for the vast majority of those who gathered Sunday afternoon at Naftzger Park for the event, the day was one of celebration. "It means a lot to me," said Ken Gehmlich, president of Wichita Pride, which sponsors the annual event. "I think it's great that we can come together as family." Organizers estimated that about 100 people walked in the parade and that more than 1,000 attended the festival, which featured live music and vendors. After the parade traversed...

t-shirt reads: "Our new weapon in the war against terrorism" - a peace sign(!)Sweatshirt reads "War is not the answer". (I guess, by the looks of it, Krispy Kremes are?)

Russian Court Upholds Moscow Ban on Gay Pride Parade By Peter J. Smith MOSCOW, September 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Russian Court has vindicated the city of Moscow's decision to ban Gay Pride parades. On Tuesday Moscow's Tverskoi District Court rejected the protest filed by Pride organiser Nikolai Alekseev ruling that the ban enforced by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and city authorities was legal under Russian law and justifiable over security concerns. Aleckseev and approximately 100 other homosexual activists including Marco Cappato, an Italian member of the EU parliament, and German MEP Volker Beck, had gathered before City Hall to protest...

A Placerville church has announced plans for a demonstration today outside the offices of California education superintendent Jack O'Connell following his endorsement of the 2007 San Diego "Gay Pride Parade." Jack O'Connell

Pride event: ‘Democracy lost’ After weeks of public riots against holding gay pride parade in Jerusalem, event held in reduced proportions – enclosed in Givat Ram stadium. Anti-gay protestors arrested, one in possession of gun Aviram Zino At the end of a week of soaring tensions, High Court petitions, threats, riots and compromises, on Friday afternoon the pride event kicked in Jerusalem around 11:00 a.m. 'Violence won't silence us' (Photo: Gil Yochanan) The event, which took the form of a rally instead of the original intended parade which was supposed to march through the capital, is being held in Hebrew...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A state appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that a flag-burning was protected by the Constitution, saying a city has a right to regulate open burning. The 10th Ohio District Court of Appeals ruled March 20 in the case of two men who burned a gay-pride flag during a parade in Columbus in 2001. The men, Charles Spingola, 47, and Thomas Meyer, 49, both of Newark, had been charged with open burning, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by as much as six months in jail. But former Franklin County Environmental Judge Richard Pfeiffer ruled that the...

EU Uneasy with Poland's Move to Right by Rachel Martin Weekend Edition Sunday, February 19, 2006 · Poland's new conservative government intends to clean up corruption and re-instill moral values in Polish society. The cultural shift is already causing waves in the European Union.Warsaw. Ruling Conservatives in Poland reached an agreement to form a coalition with Populist formation Samoobrona and ultra catholic extreme-rightist party League of Polish Families (LPF), French newspaper Le Figaro reads today. The agreement eliminates the risk of new parliamentary elections only four months after the last vote. Government of Conservative Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was in...

CJ Trentacosta, 3, of Dumont, N.J. walks down Fifth Avenue in New York's 2005 Gay Pride Parade with his family, Sunday, June 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek)

Gay pride parade, festival Sunday After a four-year absence, Wichita's Gay Pride Parade and Festival are back this Sunday. "Frankly, it was the vote against gay marriage that brought it back," said Bruce McKinney, who helped organize the first Wichita gay pride events in 1990. "We had gotten a little apathetic. There wasn't a lot of politics in 2000, and the parade just kind of imploded. "But that vote showed us we needed to do the parade again." Parade participants will gather at 2 p.m. at Central and Waco. The route is east on Central to City Hall, south on...

This Sunday in a Wells Fargo bank parking lot near San Francisco's City Hall, August Knight will demonstrate for any adult who cares to stop by what it's like to be flogged -- and enjoy it. An Oakland hairstylist by day and co-owner of a South of Market dungeon popular with the whip-cracking crowd by night, Knight, 46, is an ambassador of kink. She and about 70 other volunteers will staff Leather Alley, one of the fastest-growing niches at the annual San Francisco Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, California (AP) -- Paris Hilton and her mother, Kathy, will be grand marshals for the annual gay pride parade, one of the city's biggest celebrations. They will greet tens of thousands of people expected Sunday at the Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual & Transgender Pride Parade. Paris Hilton, the 24-year-old star of television's "The Simple Life" reality show, provoked controversy recently by appearing scantily clad in a Carl's Jr. burger commercial. The hotel heiress is engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, a grandson of John Latsis, the last of Greece's shipping billionaires from the postwar boom years,...

This weekend Sacramento will be hosting the Sacramento Pride Parade. Sounds innocent Huh? Well the event is put on by the Lambda Community Center with is a Gay, Lesbian, Tran gendered Bisexual advocacy group. So in actuality, it is a Gay Pride Parade. Well I was talking with a representative of a local pro-family advocacy group and in her frustration, she asked, “What can we do?” And before I could even think I blurted out. “We should have a Straight Pride Parade!” She was so excited about he idea I could hardly contain her. She was ready to start organizing....

What is it about gay pride festivals that have mainstream media so enamored that they fail to report on critical issues when evaluating the festivities? Reporters around the country talk to the organizers of the events and take their word that the festivals are positive for the gay community and are helpful in sending a message to the nation that gay people are just like everyone else, we just happen to be gay. Advertisement Fearful, or complicit, journalists have decided that a serious review of gay pride activities, the events that precede them and the effects they have on mainstream...

BOSTON (AP) - Court approval of same-sex marriage gave extra flair Saturday to the Boston Pride gay and lesbian parade, where men and women gyrated in tuxedos and wedding gowns atop floats and an oom-pah band played "Chapel of Love." The crowd, which police estimated at between 50,000 and 100,000, grabbed necklaces and trinkets thrown from floats that crept from Copley Square to the Common. Drag queen Payton St. James, 30, of Everett, donned a long white wedding dress and wore a gigantic fake diamond ring aboard a float dubbed "My Big Fat Gay Wedding," which featured a matrimonial archway...

In response to recent advances of the culture of death in Canada, my friend John Pacheco from Ottawa is working to organize a Eucharistic Procession on Parliament Hill.  For an aweful example of what our Canadian Constitution now protects as a right, please click on the following pics from Toronto's Gay Pride Parade this past weekend.  [WARNING: (PORNO)GRAPHIC CONTENT - DO NOT VIEW WITH CHILDREN AROUND]  Please note that these pics are not taken late in the evening at some illicit secret bath-house, but rather in broad daylight, on one of the busiest streets of Canada's biggest city.  In fact, among...

Kolkata: More than 100 people marched Sunday in a rare gay rights parade in Kolkata, braving the rain and the glares of onlookers unsympathetic to their cause. Carrying umbrellas in the rainbow colors of the gay rights movement, the marchers held up banners urging more acceptance for sexual minorities, including one saying "Let us love and be loved." Armed police escorted the marchers through the muddy streets to avert trouble. While Kolkata has had small gay "public walks" before, organisers said Sunday's march was hoped to be Kolkata's most visible rally for homosexual rights. Hundreds got out of bed early...

Watch out, "American Idol." San Francisco's first "Gay Pride Idol" makes her debut at today's big parade and rally -- only guess what? She's not gay. Or lesbian, bisexual or transgender, for that matter. She's straight. And boy, are some people ticked. "It is a huge slap in the face," fumed one losing "Pride Idol" contestant. "Completely outraged," another Pride-proud woman from Corte Madera wrote in an e-mail to parade organizers. "This should have been an opportunity for someone . . . who lives their life as a Queer and feels the joys and the pain of being Queer." Those...

Parade Treatment Irks Gay Groups Activists Preparing To Clash With Christian Coalition POSTED: 8:28 p.m. HST June 27, 2003 UPDATED: 8:37 a.m. HST June 28, 2003 HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii is suing Honolulu city and county officials for excluding gay groups from a parade next week. The ACLU filed suit Friday in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, the city and the Hawaii Christian Coalition promoted the July 5 "Family Day Parade" as co-sponsors. But after gay groups repeatedly tried to join, the suit says the organizers claimed the event was privately...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO  — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws against sodomy, Gay Pride parades (search) around the country offered gays and lesbians a chance to celebrate an historic victory they hope marks a new era of equality and respect.</p>

By ROBERT CROWE Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle From exotic drag queens strutting their stuff to colorful floats sporting gay and lesbian activists, the Houston Pride Parade on Saturday night attracted a large, festive crowd. While just as flamboyant as it has been during its previous 24 years, the atmosphere was charged by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that overturned Texas' sodomy law. "This is overwhelming and still seems a little unreal after all these years -- more than three decades of struggle -- that we're finally free in Texas and free all over the country," said Lee Harrington. A...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For 10 years, Bryan Nadeu strutted in the Gay Pride parade as part of a marching band, hammering out a beat on a drum while wearing a rainbow-plumed hat. But that was B.F. - Before Fatherhood. Now, with a 14-month-old toddler in tow, he has other things to worry about while preparing for Sunday's San Francisco parade: Baby backpack or stroller? Will there be diaper-changing stations? And how to retreat if his kid melts at the loud music and crowds? "It's like I'm figuring out how I can be a father and still be gay," Nadeu...

Saturday, June 28, 2003 · Last updated 7:33 p.m. PT Gay pride events become family gatherings By LISA LEFF ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Lyn Shimuzu, left, and her partner, Silvia Castellanos, right, play with a train set with their children, 6-year-old twins Che, left, and Liana, right, at their home in San Francisco, in this photo taken June 25, 2003. An estimated 1 million to 9 million U.S. children have gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual parents, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. These parents are making their influence felt beyond once-a-year gay pride events, transforming social dynamics both...

Today, June 20, gay and lesbian Israelis will parade through Jerusalem's streets, from City Hall to Independence Park. The march was supposed to have taken place last week; it was postponed after one of its organizers, 47-year-old American immigrant Alan Beer, was murdered by a Hamas suicide bomber aboard Bus 14A. For those of us who devote a good amount of thought and breath defending Israel from various calumnies - particularly those coming from the hard Left - the fact that this march is taking place at all is excellent news. So Israel is a theocratic state? Show me an...