It's not that we needed more proof that Donohue is a liar whose m.o. It is imperative group leaders know this information. Patrick's Day Parade's continual banning. So furious was he at the outrage over the St. These trainings address line-up times, check-in locations, our moment of silence, dispersal activity, NYPD safety policies, attire and vehicle/sound permits. Catholic League figurehead Bill Donohue has made a career out of saying mean things about gay people. We hold March information and safety sessions, referred to as group leader trainings, so our participants are fully aware of rules and procedures come event day. At the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on Sunday, June 28, 1970, a group headed by Craig Rodwell, owner of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, led what became the first annual NYC Pride March (then known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March). In an email, March Director Dave Studinski told us: We reached out to NYC Pride to find out just how willful Donohue was being by characterizing Pride's information sessions as "gay training sessions," and it turns out that he's being very willful indeed. Using a very loose sense of logic, Donohue figures (finally, after trying so hard to muster reasoning) that Pride people are no better than those in charge of New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade, which famously excludes gays from marching openly, because both parade's organizations.have rules.or something. Gay Pride, also called LGBT Pride or LGBTQ Pride, byname Pride, annual celebration, usually in June in the United States and sometimes at other times in. They responded by saying that attendance was "mandatory." Today, I informed Heritage of Pride officials that I objected to their rule requiring me to attend gay training sessions, or what they call "information" sessions. On the surface, this year’s LGBTQ Pride situation in New York Citywhere the first Pride march took place in 1970 one year after the iconic Stonewall uprisinglooks much the same as last.
If you believe in equality, compassion and love then this is the celebration to take part in, especially as Stonewall in New York was the birthplace of modern LGBTQ+ rights.
Why the flip-flop? In the weak excuse for an excuse posted on his organization's website, Donohue wrote: Homophobe Won't March In Gay Pride Parade Because He's Welcome ToĬatholic League figurehead Bill Donohue has made a career out of saying mean things about gay… 2021’s pride march returned in a virtual format and carried the theme The Fight Continues to reflect on the legacy of pride’s past. Furthermore, St Patrick's day parade is more about Irish pride, than Catholic pride.Yesterday, tig o'l bigot Bill Donohue of the Catholic League announced that he would not be marching in New York's upcoming LGBT Pride parade, after having his application to do so accepted by Pride's powers that be. So, please don't be hypocritical, include all the criteria, not just the criteria you so easily prescribe to if you are hetero, of course its easy to not be gay. You must also believe women should be put to death if it is discovered they are not virgins at the time of their marriage (Deuteronomy 22:13-21). Yes, and you can't use birth control of any kind and be a proud Christian as well, you can't fornicate, commit adultery, get a divorce, have children out of wedlock, have children from a second marriage, work on Saturdays, eat shell fish, wear blended fabrics, smoke cigarettes, or defile the temple of the holy spirit in any way with tattoos, or piercings, follow your horoscope, believe miscegenation is OK, believe in slavery, believe a parent has the right to beat and kill his/her children if they disobey, etc. ACT UPs participation in the Parade will. The 27-year-old transgender woman arrested in April and sent to jail at New York's Rikers Island after. Other organizations in the resistance contingent include Rise + Resist, United Thru Action, and Gays Against Guns.
That's not to say that I object to gay rights, but I do object to trying to force an agenda down the throats of the parade organizers that goes contrary to their religious beliefs. Supporters of the Anti-Violence Project in New York are marching in honor of Layleen Polanco. You're either a proud Christian or a proud homosexual. It's an Irish Catholic parade.Īnd no matter how much people try to sugar coat it, a slave can't serve two masters. Not just people from Ireland of any variety.