2007 City Gay Kansas Pride
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Organising against war and homophobia in Lebanon
Homosexuality is illegal in Lebanon, but queers are organising to eradicate this discrimination. Chadi Sankary, an Australian-Lebanese communications student, told Green Left Weekly that Helem, an organisation of Lebanese lesbians, gay men, bi-sexuals and transgendered people, is campaigning to abolish Article 534 of the penal code which punishes unnatural sexual intercourse with a year in prison. Sankary discovered Helem in 2004, when he spent three months in Lebanon. Helem was founded in 2000 and was registered as an NGO in Canada in 2004. Sankary said that Article 534 is deliberately vague, something that suits the prosecutors. The Lebanese media is very homophobic, as are the 17 different religious denominations, he said, adding that three decades of war gives rise to great instability and people find refuge in religion in such times.
San Diego Teachers Blasted for Brining Kids to Gay Pride Event
(AgapePress) - Teachers at an elementary charter school in San Diego, California, are being condemned for bringing young children to participate in the city's "gay pride" parade last month. James Hartline, a former homosexual turned Christian activist, reports that teachers with the San Diego Cooperative Charter School brought children to the July 29 San Diego Pride Parade. A picture in the school newsletter shows several teachers and other individuals affiliated with the school marching in the parade. Hartline says the annual homosexual pride celebration in San Diego is "really just an advertisement for the triple-x gay pornography industry." Seeing children only six to twelve years old, walking with adults from the charter school in that parade was "just so heartbreaking," he says, because anyone who has never seen what these events are like "can just imagine the depravity that's in this parade." The Christian pro-family advocate finds it shocking and demoralizing that teachers or any other adults would bring innocent children around the goings on at the San Diego Pride event.
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