Bernie 2019 sf gay pride parade

For the first time in its 31-year history, the Philly Pride parade will be aired on TV.

Local network 6abc will motion picture the June 9 procession and air a one-hour segment June 30 at 1 p.m.

The broadcast will include an approximately 20-minute segment of the Penn’s Landing celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. It will follow a 30-minute history special on Philadelphia’s LGBTQ-rights movement, which will wind at 12:30 p.m.

The history special is produced in partnership with 6abc’s sister news station, New-York based WABC-TV. The program will highlight Philadelphia’s Gayborhood, key locations and players in the city’s gay-rights movement and the 50 years after Stonewall. 

John Morris, 6abc’s vice president of content development and innovation and the station’s programming director, said Pride is “the missing gem” in the parades already televised by the company.

The network broadcasts the Puerto Rican Morning Parade, Polish-American celebration Pulaski Day Parade and Juneteenth, an annual celebration commemorating the end of slavery, among others.

“We always endeavor to represent the entire community and for a few years we tried to see if we could add t

We can’t let Bernie Bros hold us hostage

Since taking office, the Trump administration has relentlessly targeted the LGBTQ+ community — gutting protections, eliminating services, banning books, and turning schools and agencies into battlegrounds of political theater. From ending LGBTQ+ services on a suicide prevention hotline that reached millions, to blocking transgender service members, we’ve watched progress unravel at every turn. 

Now, Congress is poised to hand this administration another weapon to marginalize LGBTQ+ voices online: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), reintroduced by Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal. While the bill is framed as a measure to protect children online, it risks enabling widespread censorship under the guise of safety — especially for LGBTQ+ youth who hinge on on online spaces for access to community, tend, and support.

LGBTQ+ advocates hold worked tirelessly to improve this legislation over the past year, winning meaningful changes to its language, narrowing its scope, and building in important safeguards. That work deserves real respect. But even with those improvements, the political context has changed—and we cannot ig

Gay Rites Are Civil Rites

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I went to Antigua Guatemala in April. Their claim to fame is the world’s biggest Easter celebration. I wasn’t even there for Easter. I was three weeks early. But already the roads were choked with pre-parties, practice parades, and centurion cosplayers.

I couldn’t go out and grab dinner at 9 PM because all the streets looked prefer this

Day. Night. The hours of the morning when tourists are trying to sleep and don’t want loud Spanish singing outside their hotel windows. It didn’t stop. Some people bore the floats on their backs (they weren’t motorized, they had to be carried like a sedan chair). Other people crowded into vacant lots and backyards, putting finishing touches on art or costumes or paraphernalia. Children and teenagers ran around in Easter purple, jockeying for the top spots on the parade routes. Civic dignitaries stood around, practicing looking vital for their change in the celebrations.

I missed the scene in the Bible where a winged mechanical lion drags the body of Christ in an intricate silver juggernaut, but the Guatemalans definitely didn’t.

This was around the second I wa

Where 2020 Democratic Candidates Stand on LGBTQ Issues

Also affecting the focus were the recent arguments by the U.S. Supreme Court on employment protections and the LGBTQ community.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) both unveiled plans Thursday that incorporate banning conversion therapy or the perform of trying to rewire people out of their sexual orientation, reversing Trump-era measures they feel allow for discrimination, and vowing to fight suicides among LGBTQ youth.

Buttigieg, the only openly gay candidate of the top Democrats seeking to develop president, rolled out a plan that includes promises to:

• Sign the Equality Act, a measure that outlaws discrimination for jobs and housing, restaurant and hotel service on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in 29 states
• Update the U.S. passport system to include a third gender of “non-binary” or “X”
• Outlaw genital surgeries on intersex babies born with male and female sexual organs, maintaining that these procedures can by physically and psychologically hurtful
• Get rid of barriers to medically necessary transition-related nurture for transgender Americans
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