This year’s Queens Pride on Sunday featured what appeared to be the fewest groups marching since the parade came back after a pandemic-induced break in 2022. Several groups opposed to Israel’s war on Gaza boycotted the march, due to the LGBT Network’s support of “settler-colonial apartheid regime of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians.” In November, the organization rallied LGBTQ groups in support of Israel, and in an October op-ed, LGBT Network president David Kilmnick chastised LGBTQ groups for not rallying behind Israel.
“As a collective of queer Indigenous Tibetans who consider Jackson Heights our home in exile, we no longer want to participate in a Queens Pride overseen by pro-NYPD organizations that platform Zionism while Palestinians, queer and otherwise, are under siege,” wrote the Tibetan Equality Group in a Medium post explaining their decision to boycott.
The campaign plans to have a presence this month at more than 200 Pride events in 23 states, including all of the battleground states, and to launch a paid media blitz aimed at mobilizing LGBTQ voters, two campaign officials said in details first shared with NBC News....
The HRC has long been a corporate controlled piece of shit org that activist LGBTQ+ don’t support. Former HRC President Chad Griffin worked in the Clinton White House. During Bernie vs Clinton instead of having the members vote who to have the org endorse, he made the decision to bypass them and endorse Hillary. Their own website had her at an 87% for supporting LGBTQ Rights while they had Bernie at a 99%. After their social media pages were bombarded with that, they removed the rankings from their website.
Anyways, here’s some other reasons LGBTQ+ that pay attention don’t like the HRC…
Human Rights Campaign Under Fire in LGBT Community. Queer groups call foul on the largest LGBT nonprofit, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), for glorifying corporations the groups consider to be downright dirty.
Biden to Bibi: Kick Me Again (prospect.org)
Some Pro-Palestine Queer Groups Boycotted Queens Pride in NYC, While Others Tried to Reclaim It (hellgatenyc.com)
On Imprisoning Presidential Candidates: From Eugene Debs to Donald Trump (www.commondreams.org)
Inverted Totalitarianism (Documentary) by 1Dime (youtu.be)
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Biden campaign launches Pride Month push as allies work to shore up LGBTQ support (www.nbcnews.com)
The campaign plans to have a presence this month at more than 200 Pride events in 23 states, including all of the battleground states, and to launch a paid media blitz aimed at mobilizing LGBTQ voters, two campaign officials said in details first shared with NBC News....
Solidarity (lemmy.world)
Mexico elects first female president with Claudia Sheinbaum as projected winner (www.nbcnews.com) Spanish
A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump joins TikTok and rapidly wins 3 million followers (www.reuters.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/PLtgd
Live Nation, Ticketmaster Confirms Hack Affecting More Than 500 Million Customers (www.complex.com)
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels (www.yahoo.com)
Millennials' retirement and homebuying plans may be a fantasy (www.businessinsider.com)
California sheriff quips he’s ‘changing teams,’ urges support for ‘convicted felon’ Trump (nypost.com)
Riverside County Sheriff Bianco has always been a conservative POS. The irony of a cop urging to “put a felon in the White House”.