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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(June 28) -- Forget the holiday season; June is the time of year when people don their gayest apparel. Cities around the world celebrated gay pride parades last weekend, allowing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities to come together, often in costume. Revelers marched through New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico City, Berlin and Guatemala City, among other locations, dressed in elaborate get-ups in all shades of the rainbow. ...
"This younger generation takes itself very seriously," the announcer proclaimed over the crowd assembled at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street in Greenwich Village to watch the annual NYC Gay Pride Parade on June 28. I wasn't sure what to make of the comment. Sure, on the one hand, I watched teenagers in Speedos with glittered hair do backflips down Fifth Avenue. But on the other, some of my friends' unexpected and thought-provoking comments from earlier that day still rang in my ears. My friends would not be attending the march, they told me. "There's no pride in that," they'd said, referring ...
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