Tag: pride

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots was a celebration like no other, and millions showed their pride by dressing up in astonishingly creative and beautiful rainbow colors all across the globe. But it’s not just human types who dressed up all bright and shiny. Our four-legged friends shared their pride by dressing up, too, and they win the award for cutest pride attire. But don’t forget that just like you, dogs (and cats) require energy for frolicking at festivals and events...

Wally Scott, mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, cancelled the flying of the Pride flag outside City Hall just minutes before it was set to go ahead on Monday 15 July, according to CNN. It was meant to kick off a week of Pride celebrations in the city. He defended the controversial decision by saying that although he doesn’t have anything against the LGBTQ community, he believes raising the Pride flag would be a “political movement” – something he doesn’t think City...

Well, just with pride month ending recently, there is a new company that shared their anti-gay remarks and it’s no one else than – Nivea. Reportedly, during a phone meeting with FCB representatives, there was a concept of two men’s hands touching presented to them and one of the Nivea executives rejected it saying: “We don’t do gay at Nivea”. To be even worse, one of the members of the FCB...

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France — which last summer fined Russia $2 billion for two decades of human rights abuses — has ordered Vladimir Putin’s government to cough up another $41K to three nonprofit LGBTQ groups. One of those groups is Sochi Pride House, an arm of Pride House International, whose aim was to provide a welcoming place for LGBTQ athletes and fans attending the 2014 Olympic Games, and to combat homophobia in sports....

Reading’s LGBTQ citizens started an impromptu Pride march after the mayor canceled their flag-raising just moments before the event. / Scrrenshot via YouTube @Berks Weekly Reading, Pennsylvania citizens are complaining about their mayor after he halted the raising of a Pride flag in town. This past Monday, citizens were preparing for the raising of a pride flag over City Hall for the first time in town history, but Mayor Wally Scott then suddenly changed his mind. On the day of the flag’s...

Russia has been ordered to pay three LGBTQ groups £38,850 for blocking them from becoming legal entities. The groups claim their applications to become legal entities were blocked by the country because their main aim is to promote LGBTQ rights. The three groups in question are Rainbow House, the Movement for Marriage Equality and the Sochi Pride House. The groups had attempted to register from between 2006 and 2011. In the ruling, the court unanimously found that Russia had discriminated against...

Old Town Road hitmaker Lil Nas X received support from many when he opened up about his sexuality at the end of June, which is celebrated as Pride Month, but one fellow rapper isn’t sure it was the right thing to do for his career. During a sit-down interview with No Jumper, Young Thug – who recently appeared on a remix of Lil Nas X’s hit track Old Town Road – said: “I feel like he probably shouldn’t have told...

Super Happy Fun America, the group organizing Boston’s so-called “Straight Pride Parade” on August 31, announced it had “initiated negotiations” with 25 major corporate sponsors to partner for the upcoming event, which will feature alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos as its grand marshal. The group claimed in an email Tuesday that it was in talks with companies like Amazon, Tumblr, Yelp, Netflix, Starbucks, Pepsi Co., Bank of America, and GrubHub to sign onto the event. “As corporations with reputations for being both...

https://www.facebook.com/PrincessBermuda/ Bermuda is throwing its first pride festival this summer, and rumor has it this party is going to be lit. Thousands of people have taken to social media, posting plans for rainbow outfits and forming groups to march in the parade. After-party ideas are circulating for restaurants and bars, or maybe everyone will just go drink on the beach? (GayCities votes “yes” to the beach-drinking idea.) There is a campaign to get Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who live...

A swimming club from Washington, D.C. cleaned up at the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics world championship meet in New York City in late June, reported the Washington Blade. According to Swim Swam, the District of Columbia Aquatics Club joined some 900 aquatic athletes — more than half of them swimmers — competing in Queens, while World Pride celebrations tied to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots were underway in Manhattan. The masters swimmers of DCAC, formed in 1988...

Jacob Tobia is tired of being asked where non-binary stops and trans starts. “At a certain point I want to say, ‘Can you stop dissecting me? I’m a person,’” the author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story said. “I don’t want to dissect my community like that. I don’t want to dissect my chosen family like that. I just know what feels like home when it feels like home.” Tobia, who identifies as genderqueer, made their comments during a panel discussion at...

Green Man Gaming’s latest retro rhythm game, Pride Run, recently released its first trailer and it looks incredible. The game sees you keep a Pride parade on track in a rhythm based style, before taking on ‘Enemies of Pride’ in a one-on-one dance-off. The game will take place across 16 different locations including places like San Francisco and Berlin, as well as places more hostile to the LGBTQ community like Istanbul and Moscow. The ‘Enemies of Pride’ are styled after groups...

Photo by Park Geon – Hwan on Unsplash The student who tied himself up with red rope is not getting away with his performance art excuse. Last year, we reported to you has a 22-year-old student named Wong Wing-fung stripped down to his underwear during last year’s Hong Kong Pride parade. He then tied himself up with red rope and wrapped the rest of the rope to a pedestrian railing. Before that, Wong pretended to burn a Bible while parade participants...

From his role as “Pray Tell” on the revolutionary hit television show Pose to his star turning fashion turns on red carpets everywhere, suffice to say; Billy Porter is having an absolute moment right now!  When he dropped his latest single “Love Yourself” last month, it was the pride anthem we all needed. The remixes that dropped yesterday that accompany it though, are the dance floor anthems that our summer dance floors will be loving for the remainder of the...