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An Alabama Drag Show Was Shut Down on the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

The LGBTQ community in Montgomery, Alabama, has been left with more questions than answers after a drag show was shut down by authorities Saturday night, during the 50th anniversary weekend of the historic Stonewall uprising. “We’ve been running for weeks trying to raise money for a gay club in Montgomery, because we don’t have one,” Victoria A. Jewelle, a local drag queen who serves as the show’s director, told NBC News. “We were trying to raise money for a new establishment so we can have a place to feel safe.” Officials with Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board canvassed a dozen […]

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Gaydar Takes Over Buffalo Billiards July 26

In the classic GayDar tradition the social group invites the entire LGBTQI Community to takeover Buffalo Billiards in Petaluma for a Gay Night of fun. Join us for a gay night of friends, games and a good time! We’ve arranged for our GayDar friends to have a special happy hour menu and we will be holding a raffle for Sonoma County Pride 2020! Invite all your friends and join us for a fun time!.

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What’s Happening at Marin’s LGBTQ Spahr Center

Meet the Spahr Center’s Youth Advocacy CoalitionThe Spahr Center’s Youth Advocacy Coalition is a group comprised of queer and trans youth, high-school aged and up, who are passionate about activism and changing societal norms surrounding the LGTBQ+ community in Marin. Founded in March of 2018, the Youth Advocacy Coalition meets every week to organize and plan our events. Nina Friedman was our first program coordinator, and over the last three months, Fel Agrelius has taken that role. The group is entirely youth-led and directed. We pursue projects that we are most passionate about, and we prioritize those that show the most […]

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Nepal Holds First Pride Parade in Capital City

Nepal made history on Saturday (29 June) when hundreds marched through the capital Kathmandu to celebrate LGBTI pride. More than 300 people donned colorful face paint, carried rainbow umbrellas, and waved flags according to local media. Although Nepal has held LGBTI pride events in the past, this was the first march through the city in June. Hundreds of LGBTI rights supporters, for example, attend the Gai Jatra festival each year in August. Queer Youth Group (QYG) and Queer Rights Collective organized the event. Attendees of the first pride parade in the capital of Nepal Kathmandu. (Photo: Queer Youth Group) 4 ‘I feel […]

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Brave Trails Summer Camp for Queer Youth

The campers at  Brave Trails are told, above all else, they get a “second family” while participating in this Los Angeles-based LGBTQ+ youth summer camp.  Brave Trails blossomed out of the love that founders Jessica and Kayla Weissbuch’s share for summer camp and queer youth mentorship.  “With the skills learned at camp, our campers will be primed to thrive in their schools, workplace and personal lives,” Jessica said. “In addition, our campers will have the knowledge and confidence to be more impactful leaders and implement innovative social change in their communities.” The camp’s program focuses on four key elements: Leadership, […]

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Protestors Bring San Francisco Pride to a Halt

A group of about 12 protestors brought the San Francisco 2019 Pride Parade to a halt on Sunday (30 June). They were drawing attention to the police’s participation in the parade, which they found objectionable because of the treatment by police to members of the LGBTQ Community both in the city and around the world. They also object to the many corporations that participate, that negatively impact the community. About an hour after the parade began, protestors blocked Market Street by chaining themselves together under rainbow tubes, according to SF Gate. Other pride attendees also pushed and shoved police officers, CBS reports. Police arrested […]

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Millions Take to Streets in New York for Largest Pride Ever

Millions of LGBTI supporters took to the streets of New York on Sunday (30 June) to celebrate pride and renew calls for equality. Some 150,000 participants from 600 contingents hosting more than 100 floats marched down the four-kilometer route, according to BBC News. An estimated four million people, meanwhile, took to the streets to watch and celebrate New York City Pride Parade. This year, New York hosted global LGBT-event WorldPride. The mass march also marked 50 years since Stonewall Riots. On 28 June, 1969, LGBTI community members launched spontaneous protests against discrimination following raids of the Stonewall Inn. People regard it as […]

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Riot Police Disperse Banned Istanbul Pride Rally With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, And Dogs

Deutsche Welle reports: Police pushed back crowds celebrating Istanbul’s 17th gay pride march on Sunday, an event Turkish authorities had banned for the fifth year in a row. The rally, on a side street off Istanbul’s main pedestrian avenue, drew several hundred people who cheered and waved rainbow flags. Chants of “shoulder to shoulder against fascism” and “we will not be quiet” were heard among the crowd. “There is a massive police presence all around the city to prevent the celebration of Pride, but despite that, activities are still going on,” DW’s Turkey correspondent Dorian Jones reported, noting also that riot […]

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How the New York Media Covered the Stonewall Uprising

The Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, and centered around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. Four days earlier, on June 24, 1969, the police, led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, raided the Stonewall Inn and began arresting bar employees and confiscating liquor. But when Pine led a second raid on the 28th, patrons fought back. Approximately 150 people fled, regrouped on the street and stormed the bar, trapping the police inside. The protesters began throwing bricks, bottles and garbage, and attempted to set the bar […]

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Most LGBTI Americans Welcome Police at Pride Parades

A new survey reveals most LGBTI Americans are welcoming of police and other groups, such as corporations, at annual Pride parades. BuzzFeed News and Whitman Insight Strategies conducted the survey from 5-10 June, speaking to 801 LGBTI people in the US. Most of the respondents identified as bisexual (46%). Gay and lesbian respondents were next, at 29 and 17%, respectively. Finally, 7% of respondents identified as transgender and nonbinary, respectively. The survey asked a broad range of questions, including ones about Pride, gay icons, and the Pride flag. Pride parades should be inclusive and open Police at pride has become a controversial and heated debate in […]

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