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Published: 06/28/10

Crazy Costumes Come Out of the Closet for Gay Pride

By  Ben Muessig - AOL News
Crazy Costumes Come Out of the Closet for Gay Pride

(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. ...

Published: 06/27/10

San Francisco Shooting Mars Gay Pride Celebration

By  Michelle Ruiz - AOL News
San Francisco Shooting Mars Gay Pride Celebration

(June 27) - As revelers celebrated gay pride weekend with parades across the country, festivities in San Francisco were marred after a 19-year-old man was killed and two others were shot during a street party in the Castro district. ...

Published: 06/27/10

San Francisco Shooting Mars Gay Pride Celebration

By  Michelle Ruiz - Politics Daily
San Francisco Shooting Mars Gay Pride Celebration

(June 27) -- As revelers celebrated gay pride weekend with parades across the country, festivities in San Francisco were marred after a 19-year-old man was killed and two others were shot during a street party in the Castro district. Police said Stephen Powell was fatally shot in the torso at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night during a personal dispute with another 19-year-old man, who was arrested as a suspect, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A 19-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man were both shot in the leg at the "Pink Saturday" celebration and were expected to recover from their ...

Published: 07/8/09

Lessons Learned From the NYC Gay Pride Parade

By  Sara Nommensen - Politics Daily
Lessons Learned From the NYC Gay Pride Parade

"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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