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Taiwan will host 2025 WorldPride festivities
Our nation’s capital and a region of Taiwan were the only bids placed to host the international festivities in four years.
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A DC gay bar apologized after security dragged a Black woman down stairs. That’s not enough.
The bar fired the security employee and team responsible, but this is just the latest instance of what locals claim is an anti-Black culture fostered there. Now the community is boycotting.
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Shocking video shows security dragging a Black woman down stairs by her hair at LGBTQ bar
She was “dragged like an animal” by a security guard who had the wrong woman entirely. She just looked like someone else.
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Kamala Harris snuck into DC’s impromptu Pride parade before anyone noticed
Kamala Harris is believed to be the first Vice President of the United States to attend a Pride event.
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A straight couple behaving badly caused the panicked stampede at DC’s Pride parade
The man waved a realistic BB gun at someone he thought had insulted his girlfriend and caused a stampede when nearby revelers thought it was the beginning of another mass shooting.
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The D.C. Dyke March banned the Jewish pride flag. Now they’re trying to explain why.
“We choose to prioritize Palestinian lives and justice in Palestine over lazy symbols,” the organizers say.
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A DC beer company will be honoring Marsha P. Johnson for Pride this year
“This design celebrates the progress that’s been made since Stonewall while remembering how much more work needs to be done.”
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Pride in Pictures 2017: Cheers for Edie
Edith Windsor, the woman who dominated DOMA.
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Protestors blocked DC’s pride parade so it had to be rerouted
A leftist group protested the pride parade’s inclusion of several “oppressive” organizations.
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Pride rallies planned nationwide & one’s not far from Trump’s Florida resort
Rallies in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale are planned to coincide with events in 95 cities across the country.
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Will a record number of people attend DC pride & the Equality March?
Organizers are admitting they have no idea how many people to expect this weekend in the nation’s capital.
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McDonald’s debuts rainbow fry boxes for DC pride & that Starbucks guy is pissed
Remember that guy who started a huge controversy over Starbuck’s plain white holiday cup? He’s back.
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Major League Baseball scores a hit for LGBTQ fans during Pride month
Pro baseball teams are standing by our side and showing they are in favor of LGBTQ rights.
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Capital Pride fires executive producer for transphobic blog post
Bryan Pruitt made no secret of his conservative politics, but your toes will curl when you read what he wrote about trans people.
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It’s happening: Major LGBT march on Washington set for DC’s Pride weekend
The march will coincide with DC’s annual pride celebration and organizers hope to draw big numbers to send a message to Washington’s elite.
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Why is the private prison industry funding LGBT organizations?
All LGBTQ organizations should divest from corporations that are actively benefiting from the caging of our own people in prisons and detention centers.
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U.S. military Color Guard leads off pride parade in nation’s capital
WASHINGTON — Thousands turned out for Capital Pride over the weekend, marked by the annual pride parade through the streets of the nation’s capital on Saturday, and a street fair and festival on Sunday. And for the first time ever, a U.S. military color guard marched alongside rainbow flags in the parade.
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D.C. LGBT pride parade will feature military color guard for first time
WASHINGTON — For the first time, a U.S. military color guard is expected to march alongside rainbow flags in Washington D.C.’s gay pride parade. An eight-member color guard team from the U.S. Army Military District of Washington is scheduled to lead off the parade Saturday.
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Chris Kluwe named Grand Marshall at Capital Pride
Former Minnesota Vikings Punter and LGBT ally Chris Kluwe will serve as Grand Marshall of this year’s Capital Pride parade in Washington D.C. This year’s theme is “Building our bright future.”
Capital Pride, which spans 10 days, kicks off on Friday, May 30, and culminates with the 39th annual Pride Parade on June 7 and the Capital Pride Street Festival on June 8.
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More than 100,000 line D.C. streets for Capital Pride parade, festival
WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital celebrated the 38th annual “Capital Pride” this past week, culminating with a parade Saturday attended by over 100,000 spectators, lining the streets in the Dupont and Logan Circle neighborhoods of northwest Washington.