Istanbuls queere Szene trotzt der Polizei

„PRIDE“-MARSCH
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Die LGBTQ-Gemeinde in der Türkei steht unter Druck, seit Erdogan sie als Feindbild nutzt. In Istanbul versammelten sich Aktivisten, um dagegen zu protestieren.

In der Türkei zu demonstrieren ist eine Sache von Minuten. Länger dauert es meistens nicht, bis die Polizei eingreift und die Teilnehmer abführt. Doch diesmal waren die Organisatoren des alljährlichen „Pride“-Marsches vorbereitet. Während die Behörden am Sonntag die Straßen rund um den symbolträchtigen Taksim-Platz weiträumig absperrten, mehrere U-Bahnhöfe schlossen und Hundertschaften der Polizei aufmarschieren ließen, trafen sich die Teilnehmer der LGBTQ-Parade einfach im Nachbarbezirk Sisli. Bis zuletzt hatten die Organisatoren den Versammlungsort geheim gehalten. Nur ausgewählte Personen wurden über das Netzwerk Telegram informiert.

Entsprechend klein war die Zahl der Teilnehmer. Den Videos zufolge, die im Internet verbreitet wurden, waren es etwas mehr als hundert. „Ob ihr uns findet oder nicht, wir sind zusammen“, schrieben die Organisatoren auf Twitter. » | Von Friederike Böge, Ankara | Sonntag, 25. Juni 2023

Istanbul gay pride activists stage annual rally in defiance of ban: Hundreds of demonstrators wave rainbow flags a month after the homophobic and hate-filled election campaign »

A Istanbul, la Marche des fiertés a réuni quelques centaines de personnes, malgré l’interdiction : Les organisateurs ont rapporté une quarantaine d’interpellations dès le début des rassemblements, mais ce nombre n’a pas été confirmé de source officielle turque. »

Thailand Pride Celebrations Kick Off in Bangkok - BBC News

Jun 4, 2023 | Pride celebrations have begun in Thailand. Thailand is open to LGBTQ+ communities but has never passed the same-sex marriage law. However, the winner of the recent election, the Move Forward party, has said that adopting this law is part of its main agenda.

Gay Pride: Kitty Fischer on Gay Male Rescuer in Auschwitz | 2015 | Reupload

Jun 18, 2015 | For National Gay Pride Month USC Shoah Foundation is featuring a testimony clip every week in June of eyewitnesses to the Nazi persecution of Gay men in the Holocaust. Kitty Fischer recounts her time in Auschwitz-II Birkenau when as a young girl she encounters for the first time a gay male prisoner who will turn out to save her life.

Why Pride Matters | Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Idaho to Bay Area: White Supremacists Violently Target Pride Events, Egged On by Right-wing Media

Jun 16, 2022 • President Biden celebrated Pride Month at the White House Wednesday as events encouraging celebration of LGBTQ identity and visibility are increasingly being targeted by white supremacist violence and as Republican-controlled states pass a slew of anti-LGBTQ measures. We speak with Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director for Media Matters, who says far-right social media influencers and conservative media outlets are spreading lies that members of the LGBTQ community “aim to confuse, corrupt or sexualize kids.” We also talk to Southern Poverty Law Center investigative reporter Michael Edison Hayden, who has studied the key players in recent attacks and describes a “concerted effort to ramp up this rhetoric tying LGBTQ people baselessly to pedophilia.”

« Viktor Orban a une technique de stigmatisation désormais bien rodée »

LE POINT : INTERVIEW. Fabienne Keller, eurodéputée Renew, était présente lors de la Gay Pride à Budapest. Elle soutient le bras de fer de la Commission avec le régime d’Orban.

Désormais eurodéputée macroniste, Fabienne Keller a gardé de ses années à la mairie de Strasbourg le réflexe d’aller voir sur le terrain. Elle était le week-end dernier à Budapest lords de la Marche des fiertés pour se tenir aux côtés des LGBT hongrois au moment où le régime de Viktor Orban vient de passer une loi extrêmement contestée et qui lui vaut les foudres de nombreux leaders européens. La Commission a engagé une procédure d’infraction. Le plan de relance hongrois est suspendu jusqu’au 30 septembre. » | Propos recueillis par Emmanuel Berretta | jeudi 29 juillet 2021

P&O Australia to Launch First Ever LGBT+ Pride Cruise, And It Sounds Fabulous

The P&O LGBT+ Pride cruise will set sail in November, 2022. (Twitter/ QScreen)
PINK NEWS: P&O Australia has announced that its first ever LGBT+ Pride cruise will set sail next year, including lectures, educational and spiritual events, same-sex weddings and… sequins.

The three-night cruise, which will depart from Sydney on 4 November, 2022, will be a “celebratory weekend” for the LGBT+ community and their friends, families and allies, and will “honour pride in self, the diversity of the community and the endless variety of talented artists, entertainers and educators in it”.

Australian LGBT+ organisations will be onboard, including the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation, Australia’s longest-running HIV charity, and Queer Screen, which will be putting on its first Queer Screen @ Sea Film Festival.

The cruise will also feature a queer entertainment line-up “with plenty of feathers, sequins and flamboyance”, featuring America’s Got Talent star and self-described “international superstar, sex symbol, accordionist and Berlin boy-wonder” Hans the German. » | Lily Wakefield | Saturday, April 24, 2021

Gay Pride 1979 – Inside Story

This is a very interesting look back to the early years of Gay Pride in the UK. It is well worth watching. How times have changed! – Mark

Gay Pride: Kitty Fischer on Gay Male Rescuer in Auschwitz

Jun 18, 2015 • For National Gay Pride Month, USC Shoah Foundation featuried a testimony clip every week in June of eyewitnesses to the Nazi persecution of gay men in the Holocaust. Kitty Fischer recounts her time in Auschwitz-II Birkenau when, as a young girl, she encountered for the first time a gay male prisoner who turned out to save her life. To learn more and explore the stories of other eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides, visit sfi.usc.edu | Copyright USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.


Viewer discretion is advised. – Mark

P.R.I.D.E. - A Very GAY Documentary

Franklin Graham: LGBTQ+ Pride Celebrates Sin, Like Adultery or Murder

ADVOCATE: “This is an entire month set aside to celebrate a lifestyle that God defines as sin,” the homophobic religious leader wrote on Facebook at the end of Pride Month.

Right-wing preacher Franklin Graham says celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride is like celebrating “lying, adultery, or murder.”

Graham’s comment came in a Facebook post Saturday, marking the end of Pride Month. He quoted the BBC as saying “Pride has gone mainstream” and went on to lament that fact. “This is an entire month set aside to celebrate a lifestyle that God defines as sin,” he said.

“The Bible also tells us that God hates pride,” he continued. “Shame on the nation that celebrates and glorifies sin.” He noted that everyone sins, but added, “Instead of celebrating and taking pride in our sin, we should come to God, our Creator, in repentance, asking Him to forgive us and cleanse us.”

Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, founded by his late father, has a long history of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, delivered supposedly in the name of Christianity. » | Trudy Ring | Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Isn’t it also a sin to make gazillions on the back of Jesus Christ, Mr. Graham? Jesus lived the simple life: he didn’t live high on the hog! Interestingly, Jesus said zippo about homosexuality. Moreover, if you are going to use Leviticus from the Old Testament to justify your bigotry, then you should also condemn so many other things that people do, too, including eating shellfish, adorning one’s body with tattoos, piercing one’s body, and men wearing make-up (see above)! (I very much doubt that Jesus wore make-up before making speeches to his followers as you do, Mr Graham.) I should ask you a very pertinent question: As a fervent Trump supporter, weren't you also supporting "sin" when you supported him? How many sex scandals has Trump allegedly been involved in? So, Mr Graham, let’s have a little consistency apropos of this topic, please. – © Mark

Gay Pride and the Battle for LGBTQI+ Rights – Where It All Began | DW Documentary

Jun 27, 2021 • The battle for the rights of LGBTQI+ people began over half a century ago in New York City. A police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in June 1969, triggered days of rioting. A year later, the first Gay Pride parade made its way through the streets of Manhattan.

Since 1970, June has been considered Gay Pride Month. In many countries the LGBTQI+ community celebrates Christopher Street Day, which is named after the street where the Stonewall Inn was located. Loud and proud demonstrators mark the anniversary of when lesbians, gays, queers, transsexuals, transgender people, and drag queens took to the streets to fight for their rights. Back then, they wanted to be freed from the taint of illegality straight society had imposed on their sexual orientation. They wanted to be themselves and no longer be forced to live on the fringes of society. During the Stonewall riots, street children, residents, lesbians, gays and drag queens took part in the unrest. They occupied the bar and Christopher Street. A movement grew from this incident that changed society over the course of the decades, in Western democracies at least. Nevertheless, the fight is far from over, with homosexuality still deemed a crime - even a capital offense - in some countries.

Six People Stabbed at Gay Pride in Jerusalem by 'Attacker Who Targeted Event a Decade Ago'

EXPRESS: SIX people were stabbed during a Gay Pride march in Jerusalem today with the suspect named as someone jailed ten years ago for attacking homosexuals.

A woman was reportedly left in a critical condition and a man is believed to have been left in a serious condition after the stabbing in Israel.

A police spokesperson identified the arrested suspect as Yishai Schlissel who had stabbed three people at the parade in 2005.

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was sentenced to 12 years for the attack and released from prison three weeks ago.

About 5,000 people were celebrating the event and marching along an avenue when a man jumped into the crowd, apparently from a supermarket, and plunged a knife into some of the participants. » | Jake Burman | Thursday, July 30, 2015

Turkish Police Use Water Cannon to Disperse Gay Pride Parade

Turkish police disrupt a crowd gathering for Istanbul's annual gay pride parade, using water cannon and rubber pellets to disperse them. Jillian Kitchener reports
Watch the video here

Tel Aviv's Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands to the City
THE GUARDIAN: Liberal, hedonistic and secular Israeli metropolis has ambitions to be world's most gay-friendly place

Rainbows were everywhere – on faces, belts, garlands, T-shirts, paper fans, tattoos and hats. One man had a python draped around his neck, a soldier in uniform carried a rainbow flag, and a young woman, almost naked, danced to the throbbing music, oblivious to the crowds and the searing heat.

On Friday, thousands of people poured on to Tel Aviv's Gordon beach at the end of the annual Gay Pride parade in celebration of sexual freedom, tolerance and their city's ambition to be the most gay-friendly place on Earth.

"The weather is hot, the guys are hot, it's a hot city," said 28-year-old Amit Margalit, wearing turquoise shades and matching beads over his bare chest.

The parade's organisers estimated that more than 100,000 Israelis, plus another 5,000 tourists, took part. Every square metre of shade was crammed, friends greeted one another with sweaty kisses and hugs, stalls selling ice-cold beer were doing brisk trade and traffic jams backed up around closed streets.

Tel Aviv, in sharp contrast to Jerusalem, is a liberal, hedonistic and secular city, where leisure life revolves around beaches, cafes and nightclubs.

Lonely Planet named it one of its top three cities in the world for 2011, describing it as "the flipside of Jerusalem, a modern Sin City on the sea rather than an ancient Holy City on a hill" and adding: "There are more bars than synagogues, God is a DJ and everyone's body is a temple." The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rarely on the radar. » | Harriet Sherwood in Tel Aviv | Friday, June 10, 2011

Römer Gay-Pride
SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN: Mehrere zehntausend Schwule und Lesben sind friedlich durch Rom gezogen. Sie haben vor allem gegen die Zunehmende Gewalt gegen Homosexuelle demonstriert.

Boris Johnson 'Backs Calls For Gay Marriage'
THE TELEGRAPH: Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, has backed calls for an end to the ban on same-sex marriages, a prominent gay rights campaigner claimed.

Boris Johnson at the Pride London Parade. Photo: The Telegraph
Peter Tatchell said Mr Johnson had told him the Conservatives should support gay marriage.

Same sex marriages are not performed or permitted in the UK but a system of civil partnership exists that allows two people of the same sex to be united with general consent.

The Mayor made his comments during the Pride London Parade - the annual celebration of gay rights, Mr Tatchell said.

The campaigner had attended the event carrying a banner which read "Dave and Sam Cameron can marry, gays can't.

"End the ban on gay marriage!" >>> Patrick Sawer | Saturday, July 03, 2010

Religious 'Marriages' For Gay Couples

La Gay Pride attire des milliers de personnes
20 MINUTES: Des milliers de personnes ont participé samedi à la Gay Pride à Mexico, saluant la décision historique prise par la capitale il y a six mois d'autoriser le mariage homosexuel.

Durant trois heures, une foule en liesse, à bord de chars colorés ou à pied, a descendu l'avenue de la Réforme, principale artère de Mexico, avant de se rassembler devant le Palais des Beaux-Arts, dans la partie plus ancienne de la ville.

«Nous sommes ici pour célébrer le fait que nous sommes dans une ville qui ne fait pas de discrimination ou ne pratique pas le mépris mais respecte les homosexuels, qui nous permet de nous marier, de travailler et de nous tenir la main dans la rue», a déclaré à l'AFP Orlando Garcia, en marchant main dans la main avec son compagnon.

La municipalité de Mexico, dominée par la gauche, a approuvé le 21 décembre le mariage homosexuel et ouvert la voie à l'adoption par des couples homosexuels. >>> ats | Dimanche 27 Juin 2010

'My own civil partner': Nick Clegg, right, laughs along as David Cameron makes a speech at the Gay Pride reception at Number 10. Photo: Mail Online
Cameron Welcomes Gay Celebrities to Number 10
MAIL ONLINE: David Cameron pledged his support for gay rights tonight before jokingly referring to his deputy, Nick Clegg, as 'my own civil partner'.

Gay celebrities and members of the Armed Forces partied at Number 10 as Mr Cameron became the first Tory Prime Minister to reach out to the gay community.

BBC newsreader Jane Hill and Today presenter Evan Davis were among almost 200 guests invited to the Downing Street drinks party.

Others included former Coronation Street actress Amanda Barrie, journalist Matthew Parris, and singer Duncan James, of the boy band Blue.

Gay representatives of all three branches of the Armed Forces also attended, in full uniform.

The event was designed to help reposition the new Government as a champion of equality after decades in which the Conservatives have been accused of anti-gay prejudice.

Government sources acknowledged that the No10 event, held in the run-up to the annual Gay Pride festival, was partly designed to repair the damage done.

But a source said it was also a sign of the coalition Government's commitment to equal rights.

Mr Cameron told guests that he backed 'equal rights and equal treatment', adding: 'I'm standing here as leader of the Conservative Party that has not always got that right.' >>> Jason Groves, Jack Doyle, Rachel Quigley and Sophie Freeman | Friday, June 18, 2010

Lituanie : Echauffourées à la première Gay Pride
20 MINUTES: Environ 2000 opposants anti-gays ont pris d'assaut samedi la première marche d'homosexuels organisée en Lituanie.

Les manifestants de la Gay Pride ont été la cible de projectiles. Photograph: 20 Minutes
Les 300 personnes prenant part à la Baltic Pride 2010, à Vilnius, ont été la cible de projectiles. La police a dû intervenir.

Les forces de l'ordre ont lancé du gaz lacrymogène en direction des opposants anti-gay qui lançaient des bouteilles, des pierres et des pétards en direction des manifestants, policiers et journalistes. Dix-neuf personnes ont été interpellées, selon la police. >>> ats/afp | Samedi 08 Mai 2010