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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Gay pride parade in Toronto

Gay pride parade in Toronto:-
TORONTO — Thousands of people lined downtown Toronto’s streets Sunday afternoon to enjoy the city’s Pride Parade, Canada’s largest gay pride celebration.

The parade is Pride Week’s signature event and is known internationally for its elaborate costumes and floats.

The parade followed a four-block route along the streets of Toronto’s bustling downtown ’gaybourhood.’

It included floats and marching groups representing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual service and support networks, gay- friendly businesses and several faith and ethnic groups.

People lined the streets snapping pictures of the colourful floats, brightly costumed drag queens, stilt walkers and scantily-dressed dancers.

Those marching threw flyers, buttons, candy, and condoms into the crowd, while some even passed out copies of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the spectators.

JC Lavigne, who has been married to his partner Jorge Velasquez for a year-and-a-half, said he thought the parade had attracted many people from the gay and mainstream communities.

”It’s very important to encourage our community and to support our rights, to make sure we keep them, especially with the present Conservatives in power,” Lavigne said.

Mexican tourist Nancy Figueroa, on a visit to Canada with her husband and daughter, said there were no parades like this where she is from and praised Canada’s open-mindedness.

”It’s good for the people to express themselves, what their preferences are,” Figueroa said of the parade.

Figueroa had brought her daughter to the event in order to expose her to gay culture.

”(She) won’t see something like this as something forbidden, or as something that is not right,” she said. “Hopefully in the future, (she) will see this like something normal.”

Several politicians also joined in the march, including Toronto Mayor David Miller, Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory and Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff.

The event brings in an estimated 80 million dollars to the local economy.
by canada CP

Gay Pride 2007: The Love That Dare Not Shows Its Face (In Newark, Anyway)

So it's 2007 and people in blue states like New Jersey and New York say it's fine to be gay. Well, don't tell that to Andre Jackson.

Apparently, Andre Jackson is a pretty typical, normal high school kid. A senior at Newark's East High, he forked over $150 for a special tribute page in his yearbook, one of about 20 where students pay for pages they design filled with pictures depicting them with their families, girlfriends and boyfriends, and friends found at the back of his school's 100-page publication. Andre obeyed the school's regulations (which prohibit shots of gang signs, rude gestures and graphic photos) and filled his with pictures of people important to him, including one of him kissing the person he's dating. He showed up, excited, at the school's senior banquet on Thursday night, ready to collect his copy of the yearbook and to see his special page.

Andre never got to see his special page as he designed it. Neither did any of his classmates. While the seniors waited at the banquet for the yearbooks to be distributed, Newark school staff were in an adjoining room, busily blacking out a photo on Andre's page in each of the 230 yearbooks about to be distributed to the East High class of 2007. What was the problematic photo of? Andre kissing his boyfriend, David Escobales.

Let's be clear here. The kissing part wasn't the problem, as the yearbook had many photos of boys and girls kissing in it. It was the boy kissing a boy they had a problem with. In fact, Newark Superintendent of Schools Marion Bolden called the photograph "illicit," making her personal double standard official school policy as she did not direct school staff to black out any heterosexual kisses in the yearbook which Superintendent Bolden, I guess, deems "licit" (is that a word? What the hell is the opposite of illicit, anyway?). In a magnanimous gesture, Superintendent Bolden offered to refund the $150 fee Andre paid for the page. Andre turned Ms. Bolden and her 30 pieces of silver down, figuring that was just too low a price for his human dignity. Andre's principled stand makes me proud to be gay on this Gay Pride Sunday, 2007.

Religious groups lead gay pride parade

Religious groups including Christians, Jews and Buddhists led the gay pride parade on Sunday, lending gravity to the often outrageous event that celebrates the night gay bar patrons resisted a police raid.

"We stand for a progressive religious voice," said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of New York City's Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. "Those who use religion to advocate an anti-gay agenda I believe are blaspheming God's name."

Kleinbaum, who heads the world's largest predominantly gay synagogue, and the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, were the parade's grand marshals, waving from his-and-hers convertibles.

The march took place days after the New York State Assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, which Gov. Eliot Spitzer supports. Although the bill is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled state Senate any time soon, parade-goers said they were cheered by the Assembly's action.

by:THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



















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