Tag: rainbow

One of the parents is Padma Iyer who famously took out a classified to try and find her son a husband A group of parents with LGBTI children made history in March when they came together to work on strategies to support the LGBTI community and now their group has grown. The second meeting of the Parents Support Group recently was not only bigger than the first, but they were also able to give their group a name. The advocacy group will...

Local council contacted the church after receiving one complaint about the banner An LGBTI-inclusive church in Adelaide has been ordered by the local council to remove a prominent rainbow banner from its frontage. The banner has the words ‘yes’ written across it, and was put up several weeks ago, to coincide with the Australian postal vote seeking opinions on same-sex marriage. The eagerly anticipated result of the vote is due Wednesday at 9.30am Adelaide time (ACDT). The controversial postal vote is estimated...

Ark Encounter, a fundamentalist Christian theme park that boasts a “life-size Noah’s Ark,” will light that ark up every night with a rainbow as a way to “take back” that symbol from LGBTQ people. Normally, when a building is lit up in rainbow colors, the owners of the building are trying to express support for LGBTQ people. The White House was lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate Obergefell v. Hodges, which ended state-level bans on people of the same...

Linda Harvey, the president of Christian right group Mission: America, is at it again with her absurd statements. This time she’s actually claimed that the rainbow has been “raped” by homosexuals and Christians should therefore trademark it. There’s no misinterpreting her: she wrote this herself in an article for World Net Daily. Harvey seems to hate the fact that the rainbow is an adopted and widely recognized symbol of the LGBT community. Pride Month has clearly upset Harvey, as has “McDonald’s...

Well, we can’t say we saw this one coming. The Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago was lit up in rainbow colors, seemingly in celebration of Chicago Pride this weekend. https://twitter.com/BlakeNBC/status/877367214227300352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgbtqnation.com%2F2017%2F06%2Ftrump-hotel-lit-rainbow-colors-pride-not-long%2F Joe Jervis, at Joe My God, looked into the situation, and after several attempts at getting a statement from the hotel got exactly nowhere. “We’ve been told not to say anything until the PR person puts out a statement,” a person in the hotel’s marketing department told him. When Jervis noted that...

A rainbow and transgender crossing has been vandalised for the second time in a week. The crossing, in Lethbridge, Canada, was vandalised on Monday and Thursday, less than a week after it was first painted. The city has told Lethbridge Pride members that the damage was done with tar and asphalt. A criminal investigation is currently underway. Lethbridge Pride Fest said late Monday night both marked crossings had visible vehicle skid marks across them. Lethbridge Pride Fest described the skid marks from Monday as...

Now there's Like, Heart, Rainbow, Smile, Wow, Sad, and Anger. It's like the Care Bears. During any normal month, there are five reactions on Facebook: Like, Heart, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. But in honor of Pride month, Facebook's rolling out a new one: a rainbow. The social media network announced in a post on Friday, "We believe in building a platform that supports all communities. So we’re celebrating love and diversity this Pride by giving you a special reaction." June is...

Who cares about new iPads? You are finally able to buy the famous Pride-themed Apple Watch band. Last year, the Californian tech giant gave the limited-edition bands to all employees marching in the San Francisco Pride parade. While the LGBTI community’s Apple fans were gagging for them, there was no way to actually get one. At least not without paying outrageous prices on eBay. Other suppliers stepped up, like watch accessory makers Clockwork Synergy, tapped into the trend and released rainbow bands looking very...

Three McDonald’s locations in Washington DC will change their french fry boxes to rainbow stripes to honor LGBT pride and the usual suspects are outraged. All three stores are located along the city’s pride parade route according to the Washington Blade. While the boxes will only be available this weekend to honor both the pride parade and Sunday’s National Equality March. “The rainbow fry boxes are a fun way to show our support of the LGBTQ community using one of McDonald’s...

" proud that slowly the country is changing." Next month, the Eurovision Song Contest comes to Kiev, Ukraine, a region not exactly known for being a gay paradise. Maybe that’s why Eurovision producers are redecorating the People’s Friendship Arch in Cross Park with rainbow colors and renaming it “the Arch of Diversity.” “ proud that slowly the country is changing,’ said Gennady Kurochka, who runs a publicity company working with European Song Contest in Kiev. “ filled with new meaning, a...

The candy company partnered with Gay Star News on a hub for stories about overcoming adversity. Snickers is partnering with Gay Star News on a new campaign aimed at helping LGBT people “be who you are.” Gay Star Support, a new part of the Gay Star News site, will share stories from people who have overcome adversity and provide resources for those who are still struggling. The candy bar company is underwriting the section, and has created custom advertising for it. “We...

Two years ago, his models wore no makeup. Last winter, black lips and Goth lipliner raised eyebrows. Each season, Marc Jacobs closes New York fashion week and always manages to cause a scene. But for his spring/summer 2017 show on Thursday, he caused a scandal by decking out his predominantly white models in rainbow-dyed dreadlocks. Twitter went into overdrive, providing a nearly instantaneous backlash: https://twitter.com/omglaurstfu/status/776768832832614400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/ShimShimmy/status/776768802021335040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/TheMelaninPlug/status/776768527000739840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/AhChieveGolds/status/776768482637651969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Marc Jacobs took to Instagram to comment on the controversy, and ill-advisedly used the “I don’t see color or...

Terrorist hate crime attack that happened on 12th of June in the Pulse gay bar in Orlando, Florida, caused death of 50 people who were killed. 53 people were injured after this shocking attack, in which a gunman opened fire. In memory of the victims in Orlando many landmarks around the world lit up in the rainbow colour of Pride flag. Paris supported this campaign and The Eiffel Tower became one of the first landmarks that lit up in colours of the Pride flag. Paris, 130 citizens of which became victims...

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love" The Baptist Church, which became famous in the town of Westboro (Kansas) due to its anti-gay messages, got an unexpected surprise from its new neighbor. Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of the Planting Peace charity company(protection of tropical forests, opening orphanages) bought the house that is situated directly opposite the house of anti-gay neighbors. The Aaron's team of volunteers painted the house in bright rainbow colors, the colors of the gay pride flag. The house was named the Equality...