PRIDE PARADES then and now

[tenni]

Here is an article and pics about Toronto's first Gay Pride parade in 1974. (check out the shorts of the era) Images show the demands were for equal employment. Human Rights Commission refused to protect people from discrimination, media and schools spreading lies about gay people, police harass and detain and assault gay men and women. This was all in 1974 Toronto. There was no LGBT in 1974.

Yesterday it rained in Toronto Pride parade. Usually, there is over a million involved in the parade but probably not yesterday's wet parade.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/18 ... 07779.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/18/toronto-pride-2014_n_5507779.html)

3680236803

[tenni]

Yesterday, Toronto city council marched in the Pride parade including the mayor.(former mayor refused to march--Rob Ford )
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-s-pride-2015-parade-full-of-rainbows-despite-rainy-weather-1.3131136


36804

[pole_smoker]

*YAWN* Who cares? NYC's LGBT pride parades, and events have always and will trump anything Toronto or any other Canadian city has to offer.

But Toronto just wishes it could be NYC, and what passes for 'arts and culture' these days in Toronto are NYC Broadway musicals we new yorker stopped seeing decades ago in the 80s. :rolleyes: People who are not from NYC think it is crowded but it is nothing compared to the greatly increasing sprawl of Toronto. :rolleyes:

LGBT people from all around the world even Canadaians, and people from Jersey come to NYC for our LGBT pride parades, events, and celebrations.

NYC was the location of the world's first LGBT or 'gay pride parade' as it was called then, and bisexual people helped organize it, and start gay/LGBT pride parades and events that started here in NYC and are now worldwide.

[darkeyes]

Pride parades aren't about one city "trumping" over another last year, this year, next year or ne other year... they are one way of expressing who we are, and promoting our right to be and letting the world know we are here to stay. If NY pride was the only lgbt march on the planet over the last 40 years and had 10 times the number of participants, it is doubtful whether the lgbt would have advanced so far so fast in the time.. it took hundreds of marches every year, great and small, together with all the other activity going on around the world for us to make progress... as part of a great world wide movement it achieves much.. on its own, much less..

[tenni]

Pride parades aren't about one city "trumping" over another last year, this year, next year or ne other year... they are one way of expressing who we are, and promoting our right to be and letting the world know we are here to stay. If NY pride was the only lgbt march on the planet over the last 40 years and had 10 times the number of participants, it is doubtful whether the lgbt would have advanced so far so fast in the time.. it took hundreds of marches every year, great and small, together with all the other activity going on around the world for us to make progress... as part of a great world wide movement it achieves much.. on its own, much less..

True. The idea spread from the first march in June 28, 1969. According to one source, it was AID's that bonded the drive and cause.

[pole_smoker]

True. The idea spread from the first march in June 28, 1969. According to one source, it was AID's that bonded the drive and cause.
:rolleyes: HIV/AIDS were not even known about in the late 60s.

Either way LGBT pride events and parades were going strong long before people knew about HIV/AIDS, during the pandemic, and still to this day.

But it is no surprise a closeted drama queen like the OP does not know these facts about HIV/AIDS, or LGBT history. :rolleyes:

[tenni]

True HIV was not known in 69. That is not the point for those who are literate.

The Gay movement was not focused on positive change according to the documentary. ACT UP was part of the evolution but that was just that. Acting Out. It was the awareness of a killer disease and no government level was doing anything to stop the deaths that created an awareness for equal right.

The rest is just sick off topic rambling vile bile.

[pole_smoker]

True HIV was not known in 69. That is not the point for those who are literate.

The Gay movement was not focused on positive change according to the documentary. ACT UP was part of the evolution but that was just that. Acting Out. It was the awareness of a killer disease and no government level was doing anything to stop the deaths that created an awareness for equal right.

The rest is just sick off topic rambling vile bile.
Still watching your homophobic, and biphobia documentaries eh Jim Riley? :rolleyes:

Nope, it's well spoken, and so valid. ;)

Only a closeted drama queen troll like you would think what was posted was 'vile' when in reality nothing posted is vile except for your usual hate speech and bigotry against gay people, and bisexuals who you do not like. :rolleyes:

[Visexual]

There have certainly been a lot of changes, for the good, since 1974. And it's not just for gays but for women and minorities as well. The best part is that changes are happening so much faster this decade than in prior decades and I think it's due to social media.

There is still lots of resistance though. I belong to a FaceBook, closed, group for a special ops unit and, just this morning, there was talk about the Air Force allowing females in my old outfit and it wasn't very nice what was being said.

[tenni]

"The best part is that changes are happening so much faster this decade than in prior decades and I think it's due to social media."

There is a lot of truth to this statement but it may not all be good. Just as the use of television altered communication and education, social media has sped up the sharing of "facts" and opinions. The reliability on one news source has ended but so has the validity of information on social media. Facts need to be filtered. Radical groups like ISIS can recruit gullible people. Speaking out against bigotry may be even more important today. The accusation of oh that is PC as a means of dismissing bigotry needs to be countered.

[pole_smoker]

"The best part is that changes are happening so much faster this decade than in prior decades and I think it's due to social media."

There is a lot of truth to this statement but it may not all be good. Just as the use of television altered communication and education, social media has sped up the sharing of "facts" and opinions. The reliability on one news source has ended but so has the validity of information on social media. Facts need to be filtered. Radical groups like ISIS can recruit gullible people. Speaking out against bigotry may be even more important today. The accusation of oh that is PC as a means of dismissing bigotry needs to be countered.
Yes, and yet we still have people like you who are total hypocritical bigoted homophobes/biphobes. :rolleyes:


... when bully fags try to pressure with silly 1970 gay culture language.