On opposite sides of the nation, protesters took to the streets Sunday for a different sort of Pride. In Washington, D.C., the Equality March for Unity and Pride stomped right past the White House and ended on the National Mall. Its platform included a wide range of issues including LGBT youth homelessness, transgender issues, and access to HIV/AIDS treatment.
Three thousand miles west, thousands gathered to kick off the #ResistMarch in Los Angeles. “Giving love, being able to receive love — that’s our secret weapon,” RuPaul told the massive crowd.
“This year, the LGBTQ community is lending our iconic rainbow flag to anyone who feels like their rights are under threat and to anyone who feels like America’s strength is its diversity,” said Brian Pendleton, who organized the march. “The political climate we find ourselves in has driven us to galvanize and unite.”
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He BGB
I have that picture of Trump as a drag queen as my lockscreen and wallpaper. Whoever created it is brilliant!
KaiserVonScheiss
Diversity is not a liberal value. It requires identity politics, which is collectivist and illiberal.
DCguy
What a shock, the anti-lgbt Trump Troll attacks ANYTHING that requires people to come out of the closet.
Sweetie, labeling oneself a Republican is identity politics. So nice try. But back up, regroup and try to support your bigotry some other way.
Oh, and whomever is still in Log Cabin and giving you your talking points, tell them to get their GED before trying a statement that stupid again.
KaiserVonScheiss
@DCguy
I don’t label myself a Republican. That is not identity politics.
Identity politics – “a tendency for people of a particular religion, race, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics” (Google).
And it’s whoever, not whomever. You should have used the subjective pronoun.
BriBri
Crab lice have become quite resistant to crysanthamum(sp) oil.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Where are all the illegals, trans mafia clowns and BLM ghetto queens that demanded to make this about their criminal agendas instead of gay rights? As usual white gay men showed up but no one else did.
BriBri
BLM only goes where it pays. IE: lawsuits.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Or where there is a flat screen TV to loot.
ErikO
Exactly but pride stopped being about bisexual and gay men a long time ago, now it’s more about companies/corporate sponsorship, celebrities/washed up wannabe ‘divas’, and silly and pointless political groups that just want attention and money.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
And HRC and Planned Parenthood had to pay for the entire equality march on Sunday because the BLM terrorists, trans mafia, illegals and anti corporation millennials didn’t pay squat for the event where gays had one representation on the board. You going to start paying the money the corporations give to fund gay events?
MediaGuy
That one sign says “We are every political affiliation”. Oh, the hypocrisy. Try showing up at Pride if you are a Trump supporter. You will be booed and cat-called off the street. I have to skip Pride this year because I won’t be subject to the hatred and hypocrisy that has befallen our community. This is the first time I can remember that I am not welcomed at my own parade. So, take you signs about tolerance and diversity and shove them up you a*ss, because they’re fake. You’re fake. Fake gay pride.
BigWill
Poor you. Being a Trumpie is publicly admitting to everyone that you’re a total imbecile, a gullible sap, a sad-sack pea-brained dolt so far removed from reality that you might as well be an animated cartoon. Remember how Charlie Brown’s teacher’s voice was just muffled trombone noises? Trumpies are the same way except their voices sound like Cheetos-and-lite-beer-generated flatulence.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
And being a libie now means you support the muslim cult that kills gays. Which is really worse?
DCguy
Just to remind you, you support an administration and a party that has as it’s plank an attack on the rights of the people marching.
YOU take it as an “Attack” for people to disagree with you, and yet you advocate turning those same people into second class citizens which is a major hateful attack and yet you always seem to leave that part out.
So Mo Bro….ooops, I forgot, you are using the “Media Guy” screename on this post….please stop with your fake little victimology whining. lgbts voted both Democrat and Republican in the past when both parties weren’t significantly different. Now that one party wants to attack lgbts, supports stripping away their rights, and the other party doesn’t, you cry like a child because people aren’t embarrassing the fact that you support this attack on them.
But then again, as an anti-lgbt Trump Troll, you know all this, you’re just hoping we don’t. Sorry to disappoint you.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Hahahahaaa. The Washington Blade just busted out the real truth behind this march. The HRC paid for the whole thing with white gay money because the big mouthed millennials, illegals, trans mafia and BLM ghetto thugs didn’t even send out a single email until one week before the march to try to collect any money to fund it. HRC had to foot the bill one week ago or it wouldn’t have happened. So there’s your intersectionality. A bunch of freeloaders mooching off white guys as usual. Just another reason to not give money to the HRC. They fund non-gay agendas with our money.
DCguy
Awww, how adorable, the right wing Trump supporter uses anything possible to avoid the actual post. How exhausting to be you.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Aw you jealous the muslims didn’t get any gay money to push sharia laws?
DCguy
Happy Pride all!
Mo Bro
Proud to help Trump make America great again—right on, brutha!!
Mo Bro
Apparently “resistance” applies to radicals of all stripes, because the BLM thugs in D.C. tried to “resist” the pride parade yesterday, making for the perfect clash of liberal ideologies.
You’ll want to grab the popcorn for this gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8vqumYFZbM
DCguy
And here is the anti-lgbt right wing troll who wants to attack minorities to change the topic and sow discord.
Remember, this is the EXACT tactic that the anti-lgbt group NOM outlined in their memos which were leaked. Their tactic was to go onto lgbt blogs and try to stir trouble and drive a wedge between the lgbt community and the African American community.
You really expose yourself when you literally act out the exact instructions that one of the most rabidly anti-lgbt groups in the country instructed it’s members to follow.
Thanks for making your agenda so easy to spot.
Kieran
BLM resisters resisting the white, gay leftist resisters resistance parade resisting President Trump.
I can’t resist laughing.
Mo Bro
@DCguy:
blah blah racism blah blah victimhood blah blah troll blah blah blah . . .
Jesus, get a new shtick, will ya?
And btw, I’m half-black and I like dick, so son’t presume to know my motives or agenda simply based on my political beliefs espoused on this site. There are a whole lot more layers to this onion than just thinking the current liberal movement ridiculous.
Kieran
If conservatives acted like this after Obama won the election we’d be laughing at them and calling them a bunch of cry babies.
Mo Bro
No doubt “resisting” Obama would have equaled “racism” in the eyes of his supporters.
Kieran
@ Mo Bro That goes without saying.
Danny595
The one good thing is that most of the people are normal looking. I see only 2 crossdressers. That is 2 more than there should be, but still a low number for such a large crowd. Hopefully, now that the Affordable Care Act has been in place for a few years, the mentally ill and the weirdos are getting treatment.