Yiannopoulos, who is gay, claimed in a statement announcing his participation that he has “spent entire career advocating for the rights of America’s most brutally repressed identity: straight people.” Milo Yiannopoulos. Last week, the city of Boston approved the permit application for the parade, which will be held on August 31 and feature alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos as its grand marshal. Until that time, we have no other choice but to host our own events.” Straight Pride co-organizer John Hugo told Vox in an email, “Perhaps one day straights will be honored with inclusion and the acronym will be LGBTQS. The group says they requested the same route as the Boston Pride Parade, which marched from Copley Square to Government Square on June 8. In June, a group calling itself Super Happy Fun America announced it was planning a Straight Pride Parade in Boston. So, with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots happening this year, it was inevitable that straight people would decide they wanted in on the action. There’s always someone in a non-marginalized community who wonders, “Where’s my trophy?”
The same is true for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, National Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month in September, and National American Indian Heritage Month in November. Every year when Black History Month rolls around, a certain segment of the American public asks themselves, “Yes, but what about all the good things white people have done?” Last year, a report from Public Policy Polling found that 35 to 37 percent of Trump supporters feel the United States should have a dedicated month to celebrate the history and contributions of Caucasians. There, participants were met with open hostility, jeering, and booing - a far cry from today’s televised citywide celebration.Boston’s Straight Pride was only a matter of time. In 1965, years before the Stonewall Riots or New York’s parade, Philadelphia activists held silent vigils and polite “Annual Reminder” pickets outside Liberty Hall, advocating for LGBTQ rights.Īnd while Philly’s first official Pride Parade didn’t take place until 1988, a lesser-known Pride march took place in 1972. » READ MORE: Before Stonewall: How Philly’s early role in the LGBTQ rights movement will shape the future of equality | Opinion “Back then, it took a new sense of audacity and courage to take that giant step into the streets of Midtown Manhattan,” Fred Sargeant, one of the organizers of the first march, wrote in a Village Voice essay.īut it was in Philadelphia that some of the first gay-rights activism took place.
The first Pride Parade was held as a march in New York City on June 28, 1970, commemorating the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. “We always try to represent the entire community and for a few years we tried to see if we could add this parade to our year-round representation of what’s happening in the community,” John Morris, vice president of multiplatform platform programming for 6ABC, told Philly Gay News in May. >READ MORE: Even before the Stonewall Riots, Philly’s Annual Reminders called for gay rights 6ABC will film the celebration to air June 30 alongside a 30-minute special on the Stonewall Riots - demonstrations that grew after a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969, sparking what is widely considered the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. This year’s parade will be televised for the first time in its 31-year history, according to its organizers.
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Not able to make Philly’s festivities? For the first time ever, you’ll be able to catch the parade on TV later this month.
Rainbow flags and floats will festoon Center City on Sunday for what organizers say is the “largest ever" Philadelphia Pride Parade, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.