MarieDelta
Jun 19, 2010, 10:58 AM
While last year we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of our liberation at Stonewall on the last Sunday of June in 1969, we are celebrating another anniversary in 2010. And we need to do it right.
On the last Sunday in June 1970, Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance, in commemoration of the Stonewall riots, staged the first Gay Liberation Day March. Organizers in Los Angeles and San Francisco also held marches that day.
We have much to celebrate. As a community we have struggled and fought for our very lives. Together, we have accomplished what at one time was a fantasy at best. Our sexual liberation has been celebrated every year now for 40 years with what was once a march and is now a parade, in the streets of New York and dozens of other cities across the country and the world.
This year, in light of the major battles we have ahead of us, we are asking for all of you to join us in taking back pride. While we have so much to be proud of in what we have accomplished as a community, this fight is far from over. We want our community to not only remember those who have fought and died before us, but to forge ahead in the struggle -- so that our children may one day live truly free and equal lives in this country.
The organizers of Pride Marches around the country work tirelessly over the course of the year to bring us the most inclusive marches and celebrations in the world. We want to help those organizers by working with them to implement plans for education and protest within our marches.
We know that our community is made up of every race, creed, religious affiliation and political background imaginable. We come from everywhere, from Africa to New Zealand. We represent Conservatives and Socialists. We are made up of Catholics and Buddhists alike. The time has come to embrace our ideals and differences and remember that what we have in common as a community - is our strength.
For Pride 2010, we ask that organizers and participants of marches around this great country take this opportunity to be heard. Yell. Scream. Chant. Wear your chaps and thongs, but carry a sign while you do it. Put on your most sequined ball gown, but shout for your rights as you flaunt your fabulousness. The sheer number of people who turn out in the streets this June will send a clear message around the world that we are not content with what we have. We are somebody. We deserve full equality.
If youre marching with a group, ask your group what they are angry about. It could be Marriage Inequality, or Dont Ask, Dont Tell. It could be that in 31 states, you can still be fired for being gay (see the Get Angry section on this page.)
We owe it to our community and to those young gay people who are still afraid to say who they are to TAKE BACK PRIDE. Make your signs. Create your chants. Its time for us all to remember this is a march, not a parade. This is OUR celebration of who we arx e and it has the potential to once again be something we are ALL truly proud of.
Please look around the site, and join us by making a comittment to Take Back Pride in your own way.
http://www.wix.com/takebackpride/Take%20Back%20Pride/Page%200
Pride to me was always about showing the world we are who we are. Also about claiming our rights to be as we are. In my opinion Pride isnt about demonstrating our sexual preference so much as claiming our place.
It isnt so much about what type of sex you prefer or flaunting your sexuality, but more about saying that we deserve equal rights. Here we are, here we stand, we will not let you shame us into not speaking up for ourselves. We will not let you push us around, whatever our sexuality or gender, but especially because we may be a minority.
It is a cellebration of who we are as a community and who we are as a person.
Yes it has to do with being known as Gay/Bi/Les/Trans/Intersex but only because the dominant culture has used that to shame us into not speaking up for our rights.
It used to be that when the police raided gay bars they would publish the names of those arrested in an attempt to shame them into not being gay. Pride is the dirrect result of that.
We are who we are, and we are proud of who we are. You cannot take that and make me ashamed of who I am.
Being out is more about showing the world that there are Bi/Gay/Trans/Les/Intersex who are just like them. That we arent some sort of monsters to be feared. We're just folks, just like everyone else. Yes we are different, but not in some harmful way. And yes there is a price to be paid for being out, as there always is in any choice we make. The dividends are that some young person who is struggling has someone to look up to and possibly ask questions. Or that some young person has a chance to see that there are TLGB that are good people.
Of course the above is just my own oppinion, your mileage may vary , of course.
On the last Sunday in June 1970, Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance, in commemoration of the Stonewall riots, staged the first Gay Liberation Day March. Organizers in Los Angeles and San Francisco also held marches that day.
We have much to celebrate. As a community we have struggled and fought for our very lives. Together, we have accomplished what at one time was a fantasy at best. Our sexual liberation has been celebrated every year now for 40 years with what was once a march and is now a parade, in the streets of New York and dozens of other cities across the country and the world.
This year, in light of the major battles we have ahead of us, we are asking for all of you to join us in taking back pride. While we have so much to be proud of in what we have accomplished as a community, this fight is far from over. We want our community to not only remember those who have fought and died before us, but to forge ahead in the struggle -- so that our children may one day live truly free and equal lives in this country.
The organizers of Pride Marches around the country work tirelessly over the course of the year to bring us the most inclusive marches and celebrations in the world. We want to help those organizers by working with them to implement plans for education and protest within our marches.
We know that our community is made up of every race, creed, religious affiliation and political background imaginable. We come from everywhere, from Africa to New Zealand. We represent Conservatives and Socialists. We are made up of Catholics and Buddhists alike. The time has come to embrace our ideals and differences and remember that what we have in common as a community - is our strength.
For Pride 2010, we ask that organizers and participants of marches around this great country take this opportunity to be heard. Yell. Scream. Chant. Wear your chaps and thongs, but carry a sign while you do it. Put on your most sequined ball gown, but shout for your rights as you flaunt your fabulousness. The sheer number of people who turn out in the streets this June will send a clear message around the world that we are not content with what we have. We are somebody. We deserve full equality.
If youre marching with a group, ask your group what they are angry about. It could be Marriage Inequality, or Dont Ask, Dont Tell. It could be that in 31 states, you can still be fired for being gay (see the Get Angry section on this page.)
We owe it to our community and to those young gay people who are still afraid to say who they are to TAKE BACK PRIDE. Make your signs. Create your chants. Its time for us all to remember this is a march, not a parade. This is OUR celebration of who we arx e and it has the potential to once again be something we are ALL truly proud of.
Please look around the site, and join us by making a comittment to Take Back Pride in your own way.
http://www.wix.com/takebackpride/Take%20Back%20Pride/Page%200
Pride to me was always about showing the world we are who we are. Also about claiming our rights to be as we are. In my opinion Pride isnt about demonstrating our sexual preference so much as claiming our place.
It isnt so much about what type of sex you prefer or flaunting your sexuality, but more about saying that we deserve equal rights. Here we are, here we stand, we will not let you shame us into not speaking up for ourselves. We will not let you push us around, whatever our sexuality or gender, but especially because we may be a minority.
It is a cellebration of who we are as a community and who we are as a person.
Yes it has to do with being known as Gay/Bi/Les/Trans/Intersex but only because the dominant culture has used that to shame us into not speaking up for our rights.
It used to be that when the police raided gay bars they would publish the names of those arrested in an attempt to shame them into not being gay. Pride is the dirrect result of that.
We are who we are, and we are proud of who we are. You cannot take that and make me ashamed of who I am.
Being out is more about showing the world that there are Bi/Gay/Trans/Les/Intersex who are just like them. That we arent some sort of monsters to be feared. We're just folks, just like everyone else. Yes we are different, but not in some harmful way. And yes there is a price to be paid for being out, as there always is in any choice we make. The dividends are that some young person who is struggling has someone to look up to and possibly ask questions. Or that some young person has a chance to see that there are TLGB that are good people.
Of course the above is just my own oppinion, your mileage may vary , of course.