Pride month 2023 | Chennai’s rainbow march celebrates the queer community and bold fashion
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride month 2023 | Chennai’s rainbow march celebrates the queer community and bold fashion

The Hindu  

On Sunday afternoon, curious onlookers on Langs Garden Road in Egmore, peered from their windows, as the colours of the rainbow carpeted their street for the largest edition of Chennai’s pride march yet. Coming together The Chennai Rainbow March 2023 saw a tremendous increase in participation since last year’s march. “It is my first pride march, and it is gratifying to see so many people coming out in support of the community. “I came to the march in support of my son, and I met many who told me it was a great thing that I have accepted my son for who he is,” shares G Parmila, a mother who had attended the march with her son, G Ranjith, a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Pride Amsterdam 2025 adopts “love” as its central theme
1 week, 3 days ago

Pride Amsterdam 2025 adopts “love” as its central theme

NL Times  

Pride Amsterdam has announced "Love" as the theme for its 2025 celebration, scheduled to take place from July 26 to August 3. This historic milestone will feature citywide events, including a car-free celebration on the A10 highway on June 21 and the large-scale maritime festival SAIL from August 20 to 24, expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors. It …

Satrangi Salaam for Love, same-sex marriage and Fabulousness at Delhi Queer Pride 2024
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Satrangi Salaam for Love, same-sex marriage and Fabulousness at Delhi Queer Pride 2024

Hindustan Times  

Around 7,000 participants brought the streets of Delhi alive with vibrant hues and spirited chants at the 15th Delhi Queer Pride march on Sunday, November 24. “This year’s turnout was slightly lower due to the poor air quality and the CAT exam, but we’ve come a long way.” Around 7,000 participants marched on the streets for 15th Delhi Queer Pride …

Same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ activists rally in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade
4 months ago

Same-sex couples and LGBTQ+ activists rally in Nepal’s capital during the annual Pride parade

Associated Press  

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rallied in Nepal’s capital Tuesday during the annual Pride parade, the first since gay couples were able to register same-sex marriages officially in the Himalayan nation following a Supreme Court order in Nov 2023. LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rally during the annual pride parade, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. …

At Chennai Pride, the personal meets the political
5 months, 3 weeks ago

At Chennai Pride, the personal meets the political

The Hindu  

Slogans and placards of clever political quips brightened up the streets of Chennai’s Egmore on June 30, as about 5,000 people came together for the 16th annual Self-Respect Rainbow Pride March, organised by the Tamil Rainbow Coalition. “To me, Pride is the event that best captures the intersection of personhood and politics,” says Shravan*, 21, a freelance journalist from Chennai, …

LGBTQ+ Pride Month culminates with parades in New York, San Francisco and beyond
5 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month culminates with parades in New York, San Francisco and beyond

LA Times  

Christy Gorbet dances in front of the main stage Saturday, the first of two days of Pride Celebration at Civic Center in San Francisco. The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its exuberant grand finale on Sunday, bringing rainbow-laden revelers to the streets for marquee parades in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere across the globe. “It feels like …

Own your pride makeup look
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Own your pride makeup look

Deccan Chronicle  

Pride month is in full swing and the fact that Pride doesn’t have the same pompousness around it in India has not stopped people from celebrating it in whatever way they could. Just like every pride month, Pride of 2024 is a vibrant explosion of makeup trends that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community’s diversity, unity, creativity and resilience. “As a queer …

Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments
6 months, 1 week ago

Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments

Associated Press  

ROME — The Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday as tens of thousands of people in brightly colored outfits marched through the Italian capital waving banners, dancing and singing as they marked gay rights and poked fun at Pope Francis. The Pope had to issue an apology last month after Italian media quoted unnamed bishops saying that …

As rainbow flags fly at the LA Pride Parade, ‘we’re going to continue to fight’
6 months, 2 weeks ago

As rainbow flags fly at the LA Pride Parade, ‘we’re going to continue to fight’

LA Times  

Spectators lined Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue as about 5,000 people were to march in this year’s LA Pride Parade in Hollywood. The 32-year-old trans woman and human resource business partner, who was named Ms. LA Pride several weeks ago, was joining throngs of marchers and revelers in Hollywood on Sunday for the 54th annual LA Pride Parade, one of …

WeHo Pride paradegoers talk joy and inclusivity, trans rights and a thread of fear
6 months, 3 weeks ago

WeHo Pride paradegoers talk joy and inclusivity, trans rights and a thread of fear

LA Times  

The sun was tucked away, but the cheeks were out Sunday at the West Hollywood Pride Parade as go-go dancers in jockstraps and gay cowboys in breezy leather chaps strolled down Santa Monica Boulevard. “WeHo specifically tends to be a Boystown,” said Vinson, speaking of West Hollywood’s reputation as primarily a hot spot for affluent white gay men. “It’s really …

Photos: The Annual WeHo Pride Parade
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Photos: The Annual WeHo Pride Parade

LA Times  

Tens of thousands of people gathered in West Hollywood on Sunday for the annual WeHo Pride Parade. Participants at the 2024 West Hollywood Pride Parade in Los Angeles. Miranda Haddad at the 2024 West Hollywood Pride Parade. Katrina Vinson, founder of the Pride Riders, at the 2024 West Hollywood Pride Parade. Participants at the 2024 West Hollywood Pride Parade.

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is starting to show its colors around the world. What to know
6 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is starting to show its colors around the world. What to know

Associated Press  

Pride Month, the worldwide celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and rights, kicks off Saturday with events around the globe. But this year’s festivities in the U.S. will unfold against a backdrop of dozens of new state laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender young people. The monthlong global celebration began with Gay Pride Week in late June 1970, a public celebration that …

After a quarter century, Thailand’s LGBTQ Pride Parade is seen as a popular and political success
6 months, 3 weeks ago

After a quarter century, Thailand’s LGBTQ Pride Parade is seen as a popular and political success

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — Thailand kicked off its celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s Pride Month with a parade Saturday, as the country is on course to become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize marriage equality. Ann “Waaddao” Chumaporn, who has been organizing Bangkok Pride since 2022, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press that she hopes the parade …

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is starting to show its colors around the world. What to know
6 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month is starting to show its colors around the world. What to know

LA Times  

Revelers participate in a previous NYC Pride March. Pride Month started Saturday across the U.S. and the globe, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ people and culture. But this year’s festivities in the U.S. will unfold against a backdrop of dozens of new state laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender young people. In the U.S. in April, a federal appeals court …

Vibe 25: India marched for love during its first Pride Parade in Kolkata in 1999
10 months, 1 week ago

Vibe 25: India marched for love during its first Pride Parade in Kolkata in 1999

Hindustan Times  

As HT City turns 25 this year, we take a look at the first time love was celebrated in all its forms in India. In an effort to bring the LGBTQIA+ community to the forefront, the first-ever pride parade took place in the country happened on July 2, 1999 at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata. Participants of India's first pride …

Awadh Queer Pride parade: All set to walk for Pride!
10 months, 1 week ago

Awadh Queer Pride parade: All set to walk for Pride!

Hindustan Times  

The stage is set for the eighth edition of the Awadh Queer Pride to be held in Lucknow on Sunday. Poster-making event held at Lohia Park in the run-up to the Awadh Queer Pride For now, it’s scheduled to start from Saharaganj Mall and via Hazratganj it will culminate at Begum Hazrat Mahal Park. “With events like the Pride parade, …

Mumbai’s LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back after four-year gap
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mumbai’s LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back after four-year gap

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: After a hiatus of four years, the city’s official LGBTQIA+ pride parade is back, this time, the organisers say, it will be bigger than the previous ones. “We’ve felt left out all these years, watching other cities celebrate pride in all its glory,” said Winnie Chopra, who heads Gay Gaze Bombay along with Gurleen Arora. But now we’re back, …

Pride Amsterdam 2024 to focus on connection with TOGETHER as theme
1 year ago

Pride Amsterdam 2024 to focus on connection with TOGETHER as theme

NL Times  

The 2024 edition of Pride Amsterdam will focus on connecting people with the theme TOGETHER. That’s what Pride is all about next year and why the visibility of our LGBTQA+ community has never been more necessary than it is now,” Lucien Spee de Castillo Ruiz, executive director of Pride Amsterdam, said on Tuesday. Rainbow identities are increasingly under pressure internationally, …

14th edition of Delhi Queer Pride: A fight for equality
1 year ago

14th edition of Delhi Queer Pride: A fight for equality

Hindustan Times  

The 14th edition of the Delhi Queer Pride kicked off from Barakhamba Road at around 1pm on Sunday with chants of “equal marriage rights” reverberating within minutes. The first pride parade after the Supreme Court denied legal recognition to same-sex couples in its October 17 judgment — saying only Parliament and state legislatures have the authority to validate marital unions …

India’s LGBTQ+ community holds pride march, raises concerns over country’s restrictive laws
1 year ago

India’s LGBTQ+ community holds pride march, raises concerns over country’s restrictive laws

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — More than 2,000 people took part in a gay pride event in New Delhi, waving rainbow flags and multicolored balloons as they celebrated sexual diversity in India but also raised concerns over the country’s restrictive laws. They held banners reading “Equality for all” and “Queer and proud.” The annual event comes after India’s top court refused to …

Pride Month 2023 | A website that celebrates queer memories from across the world
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride Month 2023 | A website that celebrates queer memories from across the world

The Hindu  

There is a pin on Palestine’s Gaza strip that Lucas LaRochelle, the founder of the website Queering The Map, regularly goes back to. A simple swipe through this interactive website painted in pink, shows queer persons recounting memories of love, lust, and loathing, from all seven continents. “What would it feel like to move through a world animated by queer …

From pole dancing to twerking, bizarre visuals dominate Pride Parade as marchers take to NYC streets: Key highlights
1 year, 5 months ago

From pole dancing to twerking, bizarre visuals dominate Pride Parade as marchers take to NYC streets: Key highlights

Hindustan Times  

Thousands of marchers took to the New York City streets as club music played in the background and confetti showered down on Sunday, June 25, at the Pride Parade. “I don’t think it was the right group or the right time to make a joke,” said Angela Ghiozzo, a mom from Cold Spring, said, according to New York Post. 6) …

Pride Month Reaches Its Grand Crescendo On City Streets From New York To San Francisco
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride Month Reaches Its Grand Crescendo On City Streets From New York To San Francisco

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — Thousands of effusive marchers danced to club music in New York City streets Sunday as bubbles and confetti rained down, and fellow revelers from Toronto to San Francisco cheered through Pride Month’s grand crescendo. “It’s crazy.” Parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are among events that roughly 400 Pride organizations across the …

Hundreds celebrate Pride Month at Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023
1 year, 5 months ago

Hundreds celebrate Pride Month at Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023

The Hindu  

Hundreds of LGBTQIA+ community members and allies came together to celebrate Pride Month and participate in the Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2023 on Sunday. Organised by the Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition, the march was characterised by high levels of energy, dance and chanting with everyone present in their pride best. It can also result in a bonding …

'We're coming for your children', drag marchers stir controversy with cheeky chant at NYC's pride event | Video
1 year, 5 months ago

'We're coming for your children', drag marchers stir controversy with cheeky chant at NYC's pride event | Video

Hindustan Times  

Participants in New York City's annual Drag March found themselves at the center of a heated debate after chanting "we're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children" during the event held in Tompkins Square Park. Drag artists and supporters pose for a selfie at Tompkins Square Park before taking part in the New York City Drag March in New …

Pride Month 2023 | Heads up and high with pride at Azad Maidan
1 year, 5 months ago

Pride Month 2023 | Heads up and high with pride at Azad Maidan

The Hindu  

‘Liberty from prejudice and social norms’ was the one voice of the people who had gathered to express their solidarity and their thoughts at a pride event to mark the International Pride Month at Azad Maidan on June 24. Posters and placards with readings such as: ‘I like the wine & not the Label‘; ‘We’re here, we’re Queer‘; ‘Trans rights …

Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco
1 year, 5 months ago

Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco

The Independent  

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco
1 year, 5 months ago

LGBTQ+ Pride Month reaches its grand crescendo on city streets from New York to San Francisco

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Thousands of effusive marchers danced to club music in New York City streets Sunday as bubbles and confetti rained down, and fellow revelers from Toronto to San Francisco cheered through Pride Month’s grand crescendo. “It’s crazy.” Parades in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are among events that roughly 400 Pride organizations across the U.S. are holding …

Pride Month 2023 | Queering the narrative
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month 2023 | Queering the narrative

The Hindu  

Earlier this year, trans-Dalit activist Grace Banu participated in the 46th Chennai Book Fair to represent her newly-launched Queer Publishing House. This is a battle won.” There is no contention that queer literature has been sidelined from mainstream literary platforms, be it at awards functions, literature festivals, book fairs or commissions at publishing houses. Creating their own path are these …

Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for societal acceptance and equality.
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month: Highlighting the queer community and its struggles for societal acceptance and equality.

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 21, 2023 17:58 IST - 1 MIN READ Pride Month in India is a time of celebration and advocacy for the queer community. Pride Month brings attention to the ongoing struggles for equality and dignity faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. Despite the decriminalisation of homosexuality through the revocation of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, LGBTQIA+ …

Pride month 2023 | This Tamil glossary brims with respectful terms to address the LGBTQIA+ community
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride month 2023 | This Tamil glossary brims with respectful terms to address the LGBTQIA+ community

The Hindu  

What is the word for ‘romance’ in Tamil? The co-founder of Queer Chennai Chronicle says that it takes several such rounds of discussion to come up with appropriate terms to add to their expansive Tamil and English glossary that addresses members of the LBGTQIA+ community with respect. They have taken a dive into the world of letters, finding appropriate terms …

AP PHOTOS: Rainbows around the world as LGBTQ+ Pride is celebrated throughout June
1 year, 6 months ago

AP PHOTOS: Rainbows around the world as LGBTQ+ Pride is celebrated throughout June

Associated Press  

June is Pride Month, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people and to protest threats to hard-won civil rights. Participants take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, June 11, 2023. A reveler poses for a photo during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, June 11, …

Inspiring Theme of Looking Back and Moving Forward Runs Throughout the Month of Pride in San Francisco
1 year, 6 months ago

Inspiring Theme of Looking Back and Moving Forward Runs Throughout the Month of Pride in San Francisco

News 18  

San Francisco is unquestionably the best place to celebrate Pride, and in 2023, things are about to get even more amazing. This year’s Pride festival, which is in its 53rd year, has the motivational theme of “Looking Back and Moving Forward.” It will pay tribute to the priceless insights and enormous victories of the past while highlighting the significant individuals …

Pride parade showcases community with flying colours in Coimbatore
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride parade showcases community with flying colours in Coimbatore

The Hindu  

To commemorate pride month, the members of LGBTQIA+ community marched on the Race Course Road under the collective banner ‘Kovai Vaanavil Kootamaippu’, on Sunday to raise awareness among people. Transgender rights are human rights!” The push for the 2% horizontal reservation for transpersons in the jobs in government sector and educational institutions was among the primary focus this year. Many …

Protests erupted outside Los Angeles elementary school’s Pride month assembly
1 year, 6 months ago

Protests erupted outside Los Angeles elementary school’s Pride month assembly

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Police officers separated groups of protesters and counterprotesters Friday outside a Los Angeles elementary school that has become a flashpoint for Pride month events across California. People protesting a planned Pride assembly outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Saticoy Elementary School wore T-shirts emblazoned with “Leave our kids alone” — and carried signs with slogans such …

LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties
1 year, 6 months ago

LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the U.S. and some parts of the world, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and to protest against attacks on hard-won civil rights gains. “What we’re seeing right now is probably the worst that it’s been since the early days, …

Pride Month: Celebrating inclusion and love in June
1 year, 6 months ago

Pride Month: Celebrating inclusion and love in June

Live Mint  

Pride Month: Celebrating inclusion and love in June 10 Photos. Updated: 01 Jun 2023, 07:55 PM IST Share Via Pride month is celebrated every year in June as a tribute to the Stonewall Riots of 1969. In 2016, Barack Obama designated Stonewall Inn as a national monument in 2016 1/10Pride month is celebrated in June every year to remember people …

Opinion: There's a reason LGBTQ+ Pride merch is under attack. And it isn't all bad news
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: There's a reason LGBTQ+ Pride merch is under attack. And it isn't all bad news

LA Times  

A Pride Month display at a Target in Daly City near San Francisco. Target ticked off the forces of intolerance with its annual Pride Month display of merchandise, although it’s been putting up rainbows at the end of May for more than a decade. A rapper whose grotesque facial tattoos would scare the living daylights out of any child I …

Pride flag to fly on L.A. County buildings in June after unanimous supervisors vote
1 year, 9 months ago

Pride flag to fly on L.A. County buildings in June after unanimous supervisors vote

LA Times  

Participants in the OC Pride Parade carry an oversized Progress Pride flag as the event begins along in Santa Ana in June 2022. A month after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to stop flying a rainbow flag from its City Hall, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has taken the opposite stance. The five-member board voted unanimously Tuesday …

Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics
1 year, 11 months ago

Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics

Hindustan Times  

Pride marchers back in Delhi after Covid hiatus. See pics Hundreds of LGBTQ community members and their supporters took to the streets of Delhi on Sunday to call for equal. Hundreds of LGBTQ community members and their supporters took to the streets of Delhi on Sunday to call for equal marriage rights among other issues. 1 / 5 LGBTQ community …

After Police Denies Permission For 'Pride March', Karnataka HC Clarifies Its Order Limiting Protests To Freedom Park
2 years ago

After Police Denies Permission For 'Pride March', Karnataka HC Clarifies Its Order Limiting Protests To Freedom Park

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has made it clear that its order dated August 1 restricting protests, marches and dharanas to only Freedom Park in Bengaluru is not applicable to Celebratory marches. After the Police refused permission for 'Pride March', a division bench of Justices Alok Aradhe and S Vishwajith Shetty clarified that the words 'protests, marches and dharanas' in its …

Pride 2022 London: What is the history of the annual parade?
2 years, 5 months ago

Pride 2022 London: What is the history of the annual parade?

The Independent  

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Pride London 2022: What is the theme of this year’s event?
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Pride London 2022: What is the theme of this year’s event?

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Thousands celebrate as Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returns after two-year gap
2 years, 5 months ago

Thousands celebrate as Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returns after two-year gap

The Hindu  

As the Chennai Rainbow Pride Parade returned after a two-year gap on Sunday, the unassuming Langs Garden Road, Egmore turned into a riot of colour and song. That’s why I’m glad the pride march took a slightly different route this year,” says Johnson aka Johncy Maria, a Chennai-based French teacher who has been attending the pride parade for over a …

From Kolkata to Chennai, Pride parades bring colours of love to Indian cities | Pics
2 years, 5 months ago

From Kolkata to Chennai, Pride parades bring colours of love to Indian cities | Pics

India Today  

Every year, Pride Month is celebrated worldwide to honour the LGBTQIA communities. Chennai: City’s pride parade was held on Monday, where members and allies of the community came together to mark Pride Month and participated in the ‘Chennai Rainbow Pride and Self Respect Walk 2022’ at Langs Garden Road in Egmore. Chennai's Pride Parade 2022 The Tamil Nadu Rainbow Coalition …

After two years, citizens participate in Pride Parade in Chennai, Bhubaneswar | Watch
2 years, 5 months ago

After two years, citizens participate in Pride Parade in Chennai, Bhubaneswar | Watch

India Today  

After the hiatus of two years due to Covid-19 pandemic, the citizens of Chennai and Bhubaneswar stepped out to participate in the Pride Parade 2022 on Sunday. Celebrating love and identity, people danced to traditional beats during Chennai's Pride Parade. #WATCH | People danced to traditional beats as they participated in the Chennai Pride Parade, Tamil Nadu which was celebrated …

Kyiv Pride Parade Becomes A Peace March In Warsaw
2 years, 5 months ago

Kyiv Pride Parade Becomes A Peace March In Warsaw

Huff Post  

People take part in the 'Warsaw and Kyiv Pride' march for freedom in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 25, 2022. via Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Ukraine’s largest LGBTQ rights event, KyivPride, went ahead Saturday, although not on its native streets or as a celebration. Due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the event normally held in Kyiv took place in conjunction …

The Violence Of Pride
2 years, 6 months ago

The Violence Of Pride

Huff Post  

Shortly before the beginning of Pride month, the mayor of San Francisco ― a city whose metropolitan area has the country’s highest percentage of adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ― announced that she would not march in the city’s annual Pride Parade due to organizers banning uniformed police officers from marching. The country’s first Pride marches …

India’s Pride should remember its cultural context
2 years, 6 months ago

India’s Pride should remember its cultural context

Live Mint  

At first the pink momos left me gobsmacked. A year later, the first Gay Pride marches happened in cities like New York and San Francisco to commemorate those protests. In the book The Gay Militants, he said, “You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.” But in India the …

L.A.’s top Pride celebrations say they’re better off apart. But did their breakup ‘split the baby’?
2 years, 6 months ago

L.A.’s top Pride celebrations say they’re better off apart. But did their breakup ‘split the baby’?

LA Times  

Los Angeles’ original LGBTQ Pride parade and West Hollywood, the region’s iconic queer enclave, have spent the past two years in a bitter pandemic divorce. “As far as I’m concerned there’s no competitiveness,” said West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore Sepi Shyne, who helped spearhead the city’s independent Pride effort. “We’ve completely shifted the way West Hollywood and actually made it …

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