We’ve reported in the past about the intense homophobia of many soccer fans in Serbia, and their hatred has claimed another victim. The gay-pride parade that was supposed to celebrate gay people in Belgrade on Sunday was canceled because so many groups of soccer fans had announced they would be attacking people in the parade [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pride’
Virtually sports-less gay Pride in L.A.
I attended the Gay Pride Parade in Los Angeles today and visited the Pride Festival in West Hollywood. I’ve been to four of the last five New York parades (or “marches” as organizers in NYC call them) and had been to most of the five before that in L.A. As I walked away from the [...]
Football players fake waterboarded for film
Members of the University of British Columbia football team allowed themselves to be fake waterboarded as part of a provocative short film that deals with human rights and what the filmmaker sees as the conformist nature of Gay Pride events. (Film clip below). Xtra in Canada details the film by Noam Gonick, who contends that [...]