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Title: SanFag Fudgepacker Pride Parade celebrates 40th anniversary
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GJIA1G0&show_article=1
Published: Jun 27, 2010
Author: SUDHIN THANAWALA
Post Date: 2010-06-27 07:18:38 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: queers, fags, faggots, dykes, butches, fudgepackers, carpet munchers
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Comments: 167
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's 40th annual gay pride weekend drew thousands to Civic Center Plaza, with even more expected Sunday for a parade, a Backstreet Boys concert and comments from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Organizers kicked off the event Saturday in front of City Hall where thousands converged as vendors sold barbecue and burritos and DJs spun tunes on a large stage. Advocates for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community shared booths alongside corporate sponsors. "It's part political, it's part a party," said Darryl Groom, 55, explaining the elements that brought him and his partner, Tobey Tam, 41, to San Francisco from Cape Coral, Fla. San Francisco's gay pride festivities have come a long way since the first parade in 1970, as has the LGBT movement, organizers and historians say. The first pride parade had about 150 to 200 people, said Gerard Koskovich of the GLBT Historical Society. "Barely anybody noticed," he said. "I've seen pictures of it." The following year, there wasn't even a march, he said, just a gathering in Golden Gate Park. Today, the march attracts tens of thousands of people, and a growing number of those are not in the LGBT community, Koskovich said. "That homophobia that says, 'Eek, I'm not going to hang out with these people,' has turned into, 'Boy, these people throw a great party.'" San Francisco Pride Executive Director Amy Andre said the fight for equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people has also come a long way since the first pride celebration in 1970. At the time, gay sex was a crime in California. This year, a prerecorded address will be delivered by Pelosi and The Backstreet Boys will perform. Andre said this year's theme, "40 and Fabulous," is partly intended to celebrate the movement's progress. "But we're also reflecting on the fact that we still have a long way to come for equal rights," Andre added.
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#18. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
But the only question that matters to 'conservatives' is: Does Sarah approve?
No one said anything about Palin. Why do you liberals wet your panties when you hear her name? Does she really scare you that much. Seeing how Obama is pro faggot. I think he likes these perverts. He clowns for their votes. Do you think two men having sex is normal? Do you think it is wrong? Why do you liberals alwasy side with the perverts and weirdos and why do you hate America and apple pie?
I did. Show me one statemnt by her where she has ever demeaned any gay event. Why do you let Jethro treat you like a boy?
Why do you let Jethro treat you like a boy? I'm not your errand boy. I have better things to do. Sarah = Good Obama = evil. Do tell why you choose evil.
What I stand for means in reality means nothing in the giant scope of things. You can look at my posting record and see what I'm all about, it's creating a party out there that's a true alternative. Yet you consistently refuse to consider why you choose Sarah if she refuses to stand up against evil?
#31. To: mininggold (#28)
I like Sarah Palin, as all good thinking Americans do. You say you support a third party but you have protect Obama in all of your posts. You attack a nice christian lady who isn't even president. Sarah stands up against evil. She isn't for killing babies born alive like the black thug in the white house. My first choice is Rand Paul. Not Sarah. But she is preferable to Romney, Huckabee, Guilianni, Jindall, Palentry or however his name is spelled. Like I said you're just jealous.
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#19. To: mininggold (#18)
#22. To: A K A Stone (#19)
No one said anything about Palin.
#24. To: mininggold (#22)
I did. Show me one statemnt by her where she has ever demeaned any gay event.
#28. To: A K A Stone (#24)
I'm not your errand boy. I have better things to do. Sarah = Good Obama = evil. Do tell why you choose evil.
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