PRIDE

There are many reasons to criticize FIFA for the way they’ve handled the Men’s World Cup that is about to begin in Qatar, and at the top of that list is that they chose to have it in a nation with egregious human rights violations.

More than 3,000 people on Saturday took part in the first Pride march in South Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrating the LGBT community and defying a U.S. warning of a possible terror attack in the area

TAIPEI, Taiwan — (AP) — Some 120,000 paraded in the streets of Taipei as the city’s 20th annual Pride event celebrated the LGBTQ community Saturday in spite of the rainy weather. The Taiwan Pride Parade began in 2003 with just 700 participants gathering in a park in central Taipei — most of them wearing face masks to avoid stigmatization. Taiwan has since become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage in 2019. People in raincoats carried a large Pride flag down the street as revelers in rainbow capes and elaborate makeup followed. Although Taiwan recognizes same-sex marriage for its nationals, it does not allow foreigners to have same-sex marriages legalized.

Some 120,000 people paraded in the streets of Taipei despite the rainy weather in the city’s 20th annual Pride event celebrating the LGBTQ community Saturday

The homeowners say they've experienced five separate incidents of anti-LGBTQ harassment since May. On Sunday, a dozen community members gathered to paint over the most recent discriminatory messages with LGBTQ pride-inspired art.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Thousands of people in Central Florida are now vaccinated against the monkeypox virus. The Orange County Health Department set up a clinic during this weekend’s Pride festival. People have been visiting the Orlando Public Library all weekend for vaccinations. Since then, the Health Department has been organizing pop-up events like this one. The health department also takes walk-ins and appointments.

Thousands descended on downtown Orlando on Saturday to celebrate at the annual Come out with Pride festival, wrapping up with a fireworks show at Lake Eola park.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come out for Pride and Biketoberfest this weekend, which could have a big impact on people’s commutes.

While it's quiet at Lake Eola Thursday afternoon, you can still see signs of the city preparing for Pride weekend.

Hundreds of attendees decked out in rainbow garb crowded downtown Melbourne on Saturday for Space Coast Pridefest.

The Space Coast Pride Festival and Parade returns this week at a new location in Brevard County.

Anti-LGBTQ groups hurled stun grenades, flares and stones at Serbian police as hundreds of Pride supporters marched a few miles away.

BELGRADE, Serbia — (AP) — Riot police clashed Saturday with soccer hooligans in downtown Belgrade, where an international Pride march started despite threats from anti-gay groups and an official earlier ban. "We need justice and freedom,” said Goran Miletic, one of the Pride event organizers. But organizers on Saturday said they received guarantees from Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, who is a lesbian, that the event could go ahead. “Following weeks of intense international pressure, the Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has announced that the EuroPride March, scheduled for 1700 CET (11 a.m. EDT) today, can go ahead,” the European Pride Organizers Association said. “The prime minister said she can guarantee that the streets of Belgrade will be safe this afternoon,” the statement said.

BELGRADE, Serbia — (AP) — Organizers of European LGBTQ events held in Belgrade this week said Friday they will hold a planned Pride march on the streets of the Serbian capital despite a police ban and threats from anti-gay groups. “’We have been put in a situation where we have no choice,” said Goran Miletic, one of the organizers of the largest annual Pride event in Europe. Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia’s capital three years ago to host the annual event, hoping it would represent a major breakthrough for a Slavic country that is traditionally conservative and strongly influenced by the Orthodox Church. EU and other Western officials, as well as domestic and international rights groups, have urged the populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to allow the holding of the Pride march. “I will not deal with that topic (of Pride week), it is imposed on the Serbian people with evil intensions,” Vucic said Friday.

She attended a human rights conference that was a part of the weeklong LGBTQ events. The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, said Serbian authorities should withdraw the ban on the march and protect participants. The CoE is Europe's top human rights body. “It is highly regrettable that the Serbian authorities have decided to ban the EuroPride march scheduled for 17 September,” Mijatovic said in a statement. Serbia is formally seeking European Union membership — and has pledged to boost LGBTQ rights — but has for years been moving closer to Russia’s political orbit.

HELSINKI — (AP) — Hundreds of people marched through the Norwegian capital on Saturday in an LBGT solidarity event to honor the Pride parade that was canceled in June after a deadly shooting outside a popular gay bar. Marchers in “The Rainbow Train” passed the central Oslo nightlife district where a man identified as Zaniar Matapour shot and killed two men and injured several others outside the London Pub on June 25, just hours before the planned start of the Pride parade. Organizers stressed the event Saturday wasn’t meant to be a substitute for the original Pride parade but rather a show of solidarity to Norway’s LBGT community. “It is absolutely fantastic," Oslo Pride spokesman Dan Bjoerke told Norwegian news agency NTB. It’s not the Pride parade we had planned for June but this is a celebration that is important for people to be able to express these important values,” Stoere told NTB.

OL Reign beat out Orlando Pride 2 - 1 Friday evening at Exploria Stadium in Orlando.

A video showing officers doing the Macarena at the Lincoln event attracted social media criticism.

In response to a game mod that turned Pride flags into U.S. flags, a popular site has banned any mods that seek to undermine diversity and inclusivity.

Global superstar Christina Aguilera will headline a concert in the city on Saturday evening.

South Korea Pride Parade South Korean police officers walk during the 23rd Seoul Queer Parade in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 16, 2022. Thousands of gay rights supporters celebrated under a heavy police guard in the South Korean capital on Saturday as they marked the city’s first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (Lee Jin-man)SEOUL, South Korea — (AP) — Thousands of gay rights supporters marched under a heavy police guard in the South Korean capital on Saturday as they celebrated the city’s first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus. While major South Korean politicians avoided the Pride parade, the event drew a number of foreign diplomats, including newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Philip Goldberg, whose endorsement of gay rights has raised the ire of conservatives and Christian groups.

Thousands of gay rights supporters are celebrating under a heavy police guard in the South Korean capital as they mark the city’s first Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus

Thousands of gay rights supporters are celebrating under heavy police guard the South Korean capital's first major Pride parade in three years after a COVID-19 hiatus.

More than 600 LGBTQ groups were expected to take part in the march, which was headed by members of the Gay Liberation Front from the 1972 protest.

More than 600 LGBTQ groups were expected to take part in the march, which was headed by members of the Gay Liberation Front from the 1972 protest.

Britain Pride London Mohammed Nazir from London, poses on a giant rainbow flag, during the Pride in London parade, in London, Saturday, July 2, 2022, marking the 50th Anniversary of the Pride movement in the UK. (James Manning/PA via AP) (James Manning)LONDON — (AP) — The streets of London were filled with color on Saturday as the U.K. capital marked 50 years of Pride. After two years of cancellations because of the coronavirus pandemic, the parade came a half-century after London’s first march to celebrate Pride in 1972. Chris Joell-Deshields, the director of organizers Pride in London, said “momentous” rights and freedoms had been earned since the inaugural event, “but there is more to be done”. London Mayor Sadiq Khan hailed a “beautiful day” of “unity, visibility, equality and solidarity” as he joined in the celebrations.

The streets of London have been filled with color as the U.K. capital marked 50 years of Pride

Hundreds of thousands of people have turned out on the streets of London to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.K.’s first Pride parade, filling the streets of the British capital with color.

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"I am, always have been, and always will be."

The reports of shots fired turned out to be unfounded but come amid heightened fears of hate against LGBTQ people and mass shootings nationwide.

Thousands of people filled the streets of the Big Apple to celebrate Pride during the annual parade.

The parade was canceled the past two years due to COVID-19 restrictions. But at noon Sunday it was back, stepping off in the Uptown neighborhood.

Will Larkins, 17, organized and led the walkout at Winter Park High School in protest of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, catching the attention of the New York Times.

See how celebrities are celebrating Pride this month

A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn.

It goes without saying that it was a rough day for the Orlando Pride in Portland on Sunday.

Attacks on LGBTQ people have intensified this month during the first big Pride events since pandemic restrictions were lifted.

As we all know, June is Pride Month, and it’s a time for the LGBTQ+ community to come together and celebrate being out and proud.

The bishop says the Nativity School in Worcester can no longer call itself Catholic after flying the Black Lives Matter and Pride flags.

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31 men, suspected members of Patriot Front who traveled from 12 different states, are charged with conspiracy to riot at Pride event.

31 men, suspected members of Patriot Front who traveled from 12 different states, are charged with conspiracy to riot at Pride event.

The Orlando Pride couldn’t get on the scoreboard nor break their winless streak on Sunday in Chicago.

via TwitterDozens of masked members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were reportedly arrested near a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, late Saturday. Video from the scene showed several members of the group kneeling in the grass, their hands zip-tied behind their backs, as counter-protesters jeered and shouted “losers!”Local news outlet KXLY reported that several people were detained, without naming the group directly, and said police were pulling the masks off those in custody an

Youngkin Pride Month Nat McKeller Crosby, left, greets Lisa Turner in front of the State Capitol, Wednesday June 8, 2022, in Richmond, Va. Glenn Youngkin for Pride Month. Given those positions, it generated some bipartisan surprise in Richmond this week when he hosted a reception celebrating Pride month at the Virginia Capitol. Turner said she asked the administration for a Pride month proclamation — a ceremonial recognition that's standard for other heritage months. James Millner, director of Virginia Pride, said in a statement that he was invited but would not attend.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin hosted a series of events this week marking Pride month.

Have you ever had dreams of starring in a Broadway show and singing your heart out to hundreds of people in a packed New York theater?

In the month of June, several Central Florida businesses and groups will be offering free wellness events to support mental health with community-wide activities.

The Orlando teenager who made national news when she became her school’s first transgender homecoming queen has graduated high school.

The Seminole County School Board has voted to cancel their plans for a proclamation supporting LGBTQ+ students and staff at Seminole County Public Schools

A new group of mostly Black and brown LGBTQ organizers are throwing the Pride March in Philadelphia on June 5, trying to rebuild the event into something more welcoming — and more revolutionary.

Pride events happening around Central Florida during the month of June

VIDEO: Central Florida law enforcement kicks off Pride Month with Safe Space Initiative meeting VIDEO: Central Florida law enforcement kicks off Pride Month with Safe Space Initiative meeting (WFTV)ORLANDO, Fla. — June is Pride month and on Tuesday, local law enforcement talked about efforts to make our community a safe, welcoming place for LGBTQ+ residents and visitors. Liaison officers from the UCF Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the Orlando Police Department discussed the Safe Place Initiative. The agencies have teamed up with downtown businesses to expand the initiative, so community members can easily find places of support and assistance. The mission of the OPD Safe Place Initiative is to provide the LGBTQ community with safe places throughout the city that they can turn to if they are the victims of a crime. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 25 CFL LEO Safe Space Initiative Pride Month (PJ Cybulski)See Video: Ocala police save 6-day-old baby from chokingThe program provides decals to city facilities, businesses and other organizations for them to post as a symbol of safety for the victims of LGBTQ crime.

Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young at a news conference on Friday discussed an ongoing investigation into death of a 77-year-old man in a hit-and-run crash in March, inviting the man’s family to address the Media.

The Pride gave up three goals in a span of 12 minutes late in the first half.

The monarch speaks about her experience with the virus during a virtual hospital visit.

The Orlando Pride has apologized after a supporters’ group was told it could not display a banner that said “Gay” at a match this weekend.

Having side effects after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are a sign that your immune system is responding, experts say.

The Center in Orlando is holding a special food drive Saturday to help stock the shelves of its Pride Pantry.

Alex Morgan is returning to her home state, joining the San Diego Wave of the National Women’s Soccer League for the team's first season.

After nearly a decade of crisscrossing the country and the globe for her professional career, Alex Morgan is headed home to Southern California. Morgan is joining the San Diego Wave, which will begin play in the National Women's Soccer League next season. Former Manchester United coach Casey Stoney will lead San Diego in its inaugural year.

The Chicago Red Stars defeated the Orlando Pride 1-0 in the regular season finale on Friday.

The Orlando Pride won’t be going to the NWSL playoffs this year.

Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, and for many LGBTQ+ Americans, there are many reasons to celebrate their Pride.

Tens of thousands are expected in downtown Orlando this weekend as one of Florida’s largest pride festivals returns to Lake Eola Park.

The City of Orlando plans to put in a bid to host World Pride in October of 2026. Pride officials hope to pay tribute to Pulse victims and survivors 10 years after massacre.

Come Out With Pride festival and parade is on Saturday, October 9, Extra Covid precautions will include an extended parade route to accomodate social distancing. Those attending are being asked to wear a mask.

Pride Week in Orlando starts with a Drag Race 5k and ends with a parade.

The conservative majority of the School Board in Newberg, Ore., voted 4 to 3 to adopt a policy that has attracted national attention, criticism and protests in the weeks since it was first introduced.

An organization serving LGBTQ+ youth in Central Florida is kicking off Pride Month with a special event.

Just like Kesha said in her hit song “Tik Tok,” well, “the party don’t start till I walk in,” and that goes for her Kesha Cruise that is setting sail in 2022.

Next up for the Pride is a game at NJ/NY Gotham FC at 5:30 p.m. next Sunday.

The Orlando Pride finally got back in the win column on Sunday.

For a moment it was hot vax summer; then the vibe sort of shifted.

The good news for the Orlando Pride was that they didn’t lose on Saturday. The bad news is that the Pride’s winless streak was stretched to six games following a 1-1 tie at the North Carolina Courage.

The Orlando Pride couldn’t put an end to its winless ways on Saturday.

$10,000 raised for 12-year-old victim of homophobic attack

Lekso Lashkarava, who was badly injured, was found dead in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Sunday.

It wasn’t a festive July 4 for the Orlando Pride on Sunday, as the Pride dropped their first home game of the year, falling 2-0 to the North Carolina Courage.

The process is "technologically complex" and will take time however, the state department says.

Trisha Yearwood's gender-swapped Opry moment and Miley Cyrus's Nashville Pride concert seemed like historic moments in Music City.

Activists are calling for organizers to make events accessible for the disabled community even as they go virtual.

“Pride, at its essence, is an incredibly ambitious idea.” Plus: Suggestions for what to read, watch, and listen to this weekend.

As we all know, June is Pride Month, and what better way to celebrate the rainbow flag than listening to some music made by those in the LGBTQ community?

The Orlando Pride remain unbeaten after a 3-1 win against Kansas City on Wednesday.

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Las Vegas Raiders football player Carl Nassib made history Monday when he became the first active NFL player to come out of the closet.

Famed NYC bar cites beer maker's $35,000 in campaign contributions to nearly 30 lawmakers described as anti-LGBTQ

During a Pride event in Orlando over the weekend, the head of the US Department of Veterans Affairs announced that VA hospitals would begin working...

Stonewall Beer Ban FILE - In this Monday, June 3, 2019, file photo, Pride flags and colors display on the Stonewall Inn bar, marking the site of 1969 riots that followed a police raid of the bar's gay patrons, in New York. The Stonewall Inn’s owners say they won’t serve certain beers at the famous LGBT bar during Pride weekend to protest manufacturer Anheuser-Busch’s political contributions to some politicians who have supported anti-LGBT legislation. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) (Bebeto Matthews)NEW YORK — (AP) — The Stonewall Inn's owners say they won't serve certain beers at the famous LGBT bar during Pride weekend to protest manufacturer Anheuser-Busch's political contributions to some politicians who have supported anti-LGBT legislation. “We just felt Stonewall having the platform, the power to do this, it was important to stand up,” Lentz said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

The Stonewall Inn’s owners say they won’t serve certain beers at the famous LGBT bar during Pride weekend to protest manufacturer Anheuser-Busch’s political contributions to some politicians who have supported anti-LGBT legislation.

It’s Pride Month!

The city planned to keep bridge lit up in rainbow colors throughout the week for Pride Month.

The Orlando Pride remain undefeated after a 1-1 draw with the Washington Spirit on Sunday.

A schoolyard clash over rainbow Pride flags got some students suspended and others expelled from their Florida middle school.

June 1 marks a historic day for residents of Mount Dora in Lake County as city council members signed a new proclamation formally recognizing June as LGBTQIA Pride month.

Alex Morgan scored for Orlando in the Pride’s 2-1 win against the Portland Thorns on Tuesday.

It’s almost Pride Month, and Lego announced its newest set called “Everyone is Awesome.”