LGBT United

LGBT Pride

LGBT Pride

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"Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It's not, God is perfectly cool with it, and he feels the same way about homosexuality as he does heterosexuality. Now you might say woo, woo, slow down you move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity to speak on the behalf of God? Exactly, that's the point, and I pray that you remember it." -Ted Alexandro

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Written by: EternalBeauty

Quote Reflection

St. Francis de Sales once said "Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."

Even though I know he was not specifically talking about the LGBT community, it still applies here. It's wrong the LGBT community has to fight for its rights that they were born with.

Most LGBT people haven't felt inner peace at all or in a long time because of the judging and hypocritical people in the world today who won't let them be equals and have their rights. I say hypocritical people because many people who are homophobic say, "Gays are sinners" or "God hates Gays".

Those are very hypocritical statements because if I were to go around saying "Gays are saints" or "God loves Gays" to every homophobic person I met, they would most likely say something like "Whoa, don't speak for God". That's the point. You can't speak for God and enforce what you think he feels on others.

I know this quote reflection has gotten a bit religious but the point is that if you really want the rights you were born with; the rights that are key to your inner peace you must stand up for yourself and others no matter what, even if the whole world seems upset.

Once you achieve your inner peace, hold on tight to it and never let it go. The world will eventually hitch up their britches and get over it like it was no big deal, because your rights should't be something you have to fight for and in the end, people will realize that.

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"I hate the word Homophobia. It's not a phobia. You're not scared. You're an asshole." -Morgan Freeman

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Written by: HonestForYou

LGBT Pride Parade

Early on the morning of Saturday, 28 June 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons rioted following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 53 Christopher Street, New York City.

This riot and further protests and rioting over the following nights were the watershed moment of modern LGBT rights movement and the impetus for organizing LGBT pride marches on a much larger public scale.

On November 2, 1969, Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first pride march to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) meeting in Philadelphia.

All attendees to the ERCHO meeting in Philadelphia voted for the march except for Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained. Members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN).