"That really was the worst kind of insult you could pay," said José de Marco, a longtime organizer with the HIV/AIDS coalition ACT UP Philadelphia.
which left one person dead.Ī few weeks later, a separate post that described the Stonewall Riots referred to the trans women who led the resistance as "those dressed as women," implying that trans women aren't actually women. The Blue Lives Matter flag is a symbol that has come to represent everything from support for police officers to white nationalism, and even that 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Philly Pride Presents posted a Memorial Day status last year that included what appeared to be the Blue Lives Matter flag - but with a rainbow stripe instead of a blue one.
The accusations were based on a series of now-deleted Facebook posts. That is, until it suddenly disbanded in June 2021 after being accused of racism and transphobia. In Philadelphia, a nonprofit called Philly Pride Presents ran the city's biggest LGBTQ events for decades. That, stacked on top of a nationwide reckoning over racism in policing, has inspired many cities to change how they celebrate LGBTQ people. Hundreds of bills have been introduced around the country attempting to ban gender-affirming healthcare for LGBTQ youth, and keep trans kids out of school sports. In Philadelphia, she has joined a new group of queer and trans activists who are trying to rebuild Pride into something more welcoming - and more revolutionary.Ģ022 has been a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation, according to the LGBTQ rights group Freedom For All Americans. It was cool."īut even Gonzales can understand why some people don't feel welcome at Pride, especially LGBTQ people of color. When I look back over the video, it's just filled with queerness and Latinidad. "I wanted it to be really over the top," said Gonzales, who's now the executive director of the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania. She proposed to her wife, Megan Hannah, in the middle of the Philly Pride Parade in 2014. The 46-year-old queer, Latina activist experienced one of her biggest milestones there. and June 26, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.If anyone knows Pride at its best, it's Elicia Gonzales. Universal Studio Hollywood, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles's Tribute to QUEEN Hollywood Blvd., Highland Avenue & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood LA State Historic Park, 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles
LA Pride in the Park with headliner Christina Aguilera The Groundlings Theatre, 7307 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles The Groundlings celebrate Pride Month: "The Gale," A Ferociously Queer Night of Improv Ocean Front Walk from the Venice-Rose Avenue Parking Lot to Windward Avenue Santa Monica Place, 395 Santa Monica Place, Santa Monica Venice Beach Recreation Center, 1800 Ocean Front Walk, Venice LGBTQ+ Pride Night at Dodgers Stadium: Dodgers vs. The Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place will be illuminated in all the colors of the rainbow thanks to tens of thousands of colorful LED lights strung over the popular pedestrian mall, allowing visitors to bask in the love light.
Hollywood Boulevard will dazzle with the premiere of a new light program that will illuminate a 0.6-mile stretch of one of the most iconic streets in the world in an array of reinvigorating color and brilliance. between between McCadden Place and Vine Street.