The first ever Gay Pride Parade in Slovakia, with attendance estimated to be in thousands, held in Bratislava, was unfortunately interrupted by anti-gay protesters, including members of the far right-wing fringe People’s Party, an extremist group that pelted the participants with eggs, rocks, and threw tear gas cans at those gathered to celebrate Rainbow Pride Bratislava 2010. Despite the presence of police – estimated to be more than 200 hundred – aggressive anti-gay protesters disrupted the parade. An after-party was to be held Saturday night, police attempting to secure the area.
Saturday morning, Dustin Lance Black spoke at an event sponsored by Equality California about the inaugural Harvey Milk Day, Dustin, as always, articulate, passionate, and thoughtful.
However, despite the persistence presence of Lance in the battle for equality, Equality California reportedly uninvited Black from an event Saturday afternoon at the home of Sharon Osbourne, hosted by Sharon and daughter Kelly, because EQCA wanted the higher profile Perez Hilton, a pig, to attend to the fundraiser. Black has confirmed he was uninvited, but would not comment further and no one from EQCA has commented; the decision a disgrace given the work Lance has done for EQCA alone, and the damage done by Perez to the LBGT community with every action and every word.
The Los Angeles Times reports that later Saturday, Equality California marked the inaugural Harvey Milk Day by organizing a door-to-door canvassing Saturday of neighbourhoods throughout the Los Angeles that voted prominently for Proposition 8 – the constitutional amendment that effectively eliminated the right of gay men and women to legally marry. Marc Solomon, marriage director for EQCA, said that the goal is and will be to humanize the cause of equality, and to share the struggles of gay men and women in a way that challenges long-held perceptions about homosexuals. “We become human when we tell our stories,” he said, “that are why across the state we’re going out and talking to people who aren’t with us. Harvey Milk was an activist, a fighter and believed so strongly in personal stories as a way to make progress happen. So it’s very befitting to do that.” Raymond Moya and Byron Moya, 38 and 32 years old, who were married before Proposition 8 passed, took their twin 3 year old daughters along as they went and shared their battle for equal rights with residents of their neighbourhood. “Harvey Milk once said that we should be open to the world, to our friends and family so that they know who we are, said Raymond Moya, adding that “we’re just like your neighbours next door, the only difference is that we’re a same-sex couple.”
The New York Times profiles Kirk Walker, the women’s softball coach at Oregon State, who happens to be gay.
John Waters offers a list of his favourite six books, including Suicide in the Entertainment Industry by David K. Frasier as well as The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, described by John as a “harrowing, repulsive, and witty thousand-page, gay-Nazi –Final Solution novel.”
Lance Bass spotted Saturday lunching with friends – all of whom are smoking sexy by the way – in the West Village.
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