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03-12-2017, 01:30 PM #1
L.A. Gay Pride Parade to Be Replaced by Anti-Trump March
by JOEL B. POLLAK
12 Mar 2017
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The organizers of the annual Los Angeles gay pride have announced that this year’s march will be replaced by a protest against President Donald Trump.
Local West Hollywood news outlet wehoville.com revealed late last that “the annual pride parade has been canceled, ceding to the nationwide LGBT Resist March that is scheduled in many U.S. cities for Sunday, June 11, the day the Los Angeles pride parade would normally occur.”
There will still be a smaller “Pride Festival,” which will be smaller than usual for non-political reasons: West Hollywood Park, the traditional venue for the event, will be under renovation.
In a press statement, Christopher Street West, the organization that stages L.A. Pride Parade and Festival, said: “Given the current political climate where divisiveness and discrimination continue to be part of mainstream dialogue, CSW is determined to make the LA Pride brand a unifying force for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies across all of Los Angeles. ”
West Hollywood’s culture of tolerance, however, has been tested by the rise of Donald Trump. Though Trump has been quite sympathetic to gay rights, and has inspired a vocal group of gay supporters, he has been rejected by gay activists inclined to regard any Republican as a potential threat, and hostile to the notion of states’ rights on issues they consider fundamental.
A local official tried to ban Trump from West Hollywood last year, and a woman assaulted a Trump supporter in a local restaurant.
There are “a quarter-million to a half-million people expected to participate in the march,” wehoville.com reports. LAist.com adds that some gay rights activists are excited about politicizing the parade. It quotes organizer Brian Pendleton, via Queerty: “We want to resist apathy. We want to resist having our rights rolled back by an unenlightened administration. And we want to be all-inclusive. We want to make sure that it’s everyone in the rainbow spectrum out there being represented.”
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03-12-2017, 01:31 PM #2
Just an excuse for the sore losers to rant more. This is getting ridiculous.
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03-12-2017, 02:04 PM #3
L.A. Pride Replacing Parade With a Protest March
Protesters will fill the street in West Hollywood this year.
BY YEZMIN VILLARREAL
MARCH 10 2017 7:11 PM EST
Instead of an annual parade, this year's L.A. Pride will feature a protest march through Los Angeles and West Hollywood. The organizers of the annual event are teaming up with the LGBT Resist March, which is happening nationally June 11. Construction at West Hollywood Park has reduced the space available to the related festival, resulting in a smaller festival as well as the parade's cancellation, reports WeHoVille.
Christopher Street West, which organizes L.A. Pride every year, made the announcement during a meeting Wednesday night. Christopher Street West board president Chris Classen said the group was losing around 70 percent of the space it used in the 2016 festival because of a three-year construction project in West Hollywood Park. Last year the festival featured three music/performance stages, but this year the group was told there may only be space for one stage.
Organizers are expecting a quarter-million to a half-million participants for the protest march, hoping to follow the success of the Women's March, which drew 750,000 people in Los Angeles the day after President Trump's inauguration and millions more in other cities around the world. The L.A. protest march route will be three miles long, starting at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Los Angeles proper, then going down La Brea Avenue to Santa Monica Boulevard and stopping at San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood, which is where the entrance to the festival will be.
Classen expressed concern about the smaller festival space, which may not be able to accommodate all the march participants. “Security insurance costs the same [whatever the attendance], but I can’t pay for that if I don’t have the footprint to let enough people in to buy tickets and food and beverages. Sixty percent of our income comes from people coming to this festival,” he said, according to WeHoVille. “Add on to that the fact that we may have half a million people who come on the march. If I only have room for 5,000 people on San Vicente, where do they go?”
A resident at the meeting suggested moving the festival to a different space, across the city line in Los Angeles, but Classen said the event is important to West Hollywood businesses catering to LGBT customers. The pride events produce around $9 million in revenue for these businesses, according to a report.
Given the logistical uncertainties, Christopher Street West has yet to book any performers for the festival, which takes place June 9-11. Last year the festival featured Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX, Krewella, Faith Evans, Da Brat, and Shamir, among others. This year there will be fewer performers and instead more DJs, WeHoVille reports. Tickets for this year's festival will be available for $20.
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03-12-2017, 02:11 PM #4
Nobody cares about their Anti-trump protest and only deepens the support for Trump.
Nurmerous polls have shown this!
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03-12-2017, 03:09 PM #5
Somebody put them back in the closet
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03-12-2017, 03:22 PM #6
So these people decided to take over the L.A. Gay Pride march and change it. They got pushed aside for the more important illegals typical in the U.S.
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03-12-2017, 05:15 PM #7
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03-12-2017, 06:31 PM #8
So they go from a pride march to a hate march and call that progressivism?
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03-12-2017, 07:21 PM #9
I have no problem with someone being gay...but have some respect for yourself and others. These flagrant, mouthy, violent gays have mental issues and internal conflicts is why they lash out at others.
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03-13-2017, 02:54 AM #10
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