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Pride parades for the LGBT community (also known as gay pride parades, pride events and pride festivals) are events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture. The events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. Most pride events occur annually and many take place around June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a pivotal moment in the modern LGBT rights movement.
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Description
Many parades still have at least some of the original political or activist character, especially in less accepting settings. However, in more accepting cities, the parades take on a festive or even Mardi Gras-like character. Large parades often involve floats, dancers, drag queens, and amplified music; but even such celebratory parades usually include political and educational contingents, such as local politicians and marching groups from LGBT institutions of various kinds. Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches such as Metropolitan Community Churches and Unitarian Universalist Churches, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and LGBT employee associations from large businesses.
Even the most festive parades usually offer some aspect dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS and anti-LGBT violence. Some particularly important pride parades are funded by governments and corporate sponsors, and promoted as major tourist attractions for the cities that host them. In some countries, some pride parades are now also called Pride Festivals. Some of these festivals provide a carnival-like atmosphere in a nearby park or city-provided closed-off street, with information booths, music concerts, barbecues, beer stands, contests, sports, and games.
Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the 'queer' or LGBT community.
By the late 1970s and early 1980s, as many of the actual participants had grown older, moved on to other issues or died, this led to misunderstandings as to who had actually participated in the Stonewall riots, who had actually organized the subsequent demonstrations, marches and memorials, and who had been members of early activist organizations such as Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance. The language has become more accurate and inclusive, though these changes met with initial resistance from some in their own communities who were unaware of the historical events. Changing first to Lesbian and Gay, today most are called Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) or simply "Pride".
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Opposition
There is opposition to pride events both within LGBT and mainstream populations. Critics charge the parades with an undue emphasis on sex and fetish-related interests which they see as counter-productive to LGBT interests. The argument is sometimes taken further, arguing that they expose the "gay community" to ridicule. LGBT activists counter that traditional media have played a role in emphasizing the most outlandish and therefore non-representative aspects of the community. This in turn has prompted participants to engage in more flamboyant costumes to gain media coverage. Parody newspaper The Onion satiricised this perceived result of gay pride marches in a fake news piece in 2001.
Social conservatives are sometimes opposed to such events because they view them to be contrary to public morality. This belief is partly based on certain things often found in the parades, such as public nudity, BDSM paraphernalia, and other sexualized features.
See also
- Atlanta Pride
- Brenda Howard
- Chicago Pride Parade
- Dyke March
- Gay pride flag
- Gay Pride Parade (New York City)
- Gay USA
- Houston Gay Pride Parade
- Lake Parade
- LGBT pride
- Marsha P. Johnson
- San Francisco Pride
- São Paulo Gay Pride Parade
- Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
- Sylvia Rivera
References
- Marsha P. Johnson
- New York Area Bisexual Network: A Brief History of NYC's Bisexual Community
- Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years, The Onion, April 25, 2001 Issue 37•15.
External links
- Gay Pride UK The definitive guide to UK LGBTQ Pride events
- Athens Pride The annual Greek LGBT pride parade in Athens
- Gay Pride Parade Calendar
- gayScout Worldwide Pride Events Calendar
- Global Calendar of 2008 Pride Events
- Photos from 2006-8 L.A./S.F. Pride
- Pride Dictionary and Gay Flags
- International Gay Pride Guide
- Photos Gay Pride International
- Interpride The International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Coordinators
- Amsterdam Gay Pride Parade photo gallery
- Brighton Pride 2006 photos
- Europride Parade London 2006 photo gallery
- Pride Toronto
- EuroPride London 2006 Parade & Rally photos
- UK Gay Pride calendar
- Belgian Lesbian and Gay Pride
- Reno Gay Pride
- Istanbul Gay Pride Parade
- Video: Stub at the gay pride parade, Jerusalem, Israel, 2005
- Video from the 2005 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade (Hebrew)
- Belfast Pride
- Romanian Lesbian and Gay Pride
- U.S. Latinos and Gay Pride
