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Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
North Yorkshire Youth Pride Picnic to take place at Carlton Lodge
North Yorkshire Youth has announced the return of its Youth Pride Picnic. This year's picnic will take place on Sunday, July 20 at Carlton Lodge, near Thirsk, and is open to young people aged 11 to 19, or up to 25 for those with additional needs. It aims to bring together LGBTQ+ youth, and their family and friends, in a "relaxed and celebratory setting." Panda Gledhill, youth work manager at North Yorkshire Youth, said: "This isn't just a picnic: it's a moment of pride, visibility, and joy for young people to be themselves, make friends, and feel celebrated in a safe, welcoming space." Attendees are encouraged to bring their own picnic, colourful outfits, and "plenty of good vibes." The day will feature music, wellbeing activities, and "space to simply be." Song requests for the event playlist can be submitted to daisy@ All under-18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult. This can be a "parent, guardian, youth worker, or other trusted adult." One responsible adult can accompany multiple young people. Adults must also book a ticket to attend. Full event details and booking information are available on Eventbrite at Updates are available on North Yorkshire Youth's social media channels: search @NorthYorkshireYouth.
CBS News
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
NYC Pride March honors Stonewall Riots with 2025 theme, "Rise Up: Pride and Protest"
It's time for Pride in New York City, as the 2025 Pride March steps off this Sunday in Manhattan. Organizers say this year's theme honors the legacy of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the inaugural Pride March that was held the following year. What is the NYC Pride theme for 2025? The 2025 theme is "Rise Up: Pride and Protest." The Stonewall Inn, now the site of the Stonewall National Monument on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, is considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement. On June 28, 1969, when homosexual acts were still outlawed in New York City, police raided the bar -- a place of refuge for the gay community and frequent target of harassment. The raid set off six days of clashes between police and LGBTQ+ protesters, and the riots that followed spearheaded LGBTQ+ activism in the United States. "I think, especially at this time of year and in this sort of political climate, this is an opportunity for us to say what we want to say. 'Pride and Protest' is a callback, or a recall, to the heritage of the Pride Movement," Kazz Alexander, co-chair of NYC Pride, told CBS News New York. "It's OK to show up as you are, we're an inclusive space. So if folks feel free to protest, they can," he said. "It's a welcoming environment to say and think your perspective. We want everyone to be able to show up as their authentic selves." Alexander said, as a native New Yorker, the annual march is a demonstration of what the city is all about. "This weekend, we see the town sort of painted in rainbow, as it has been all month, but this is an opportunity to show, I think, the rest of the world what inclusion looks like. New York is a place that is, even if other folks don't want it to be, the most welcoming city, and I think this weekend and the Pride March is a reflection of that," he said. "So we welcome everybody to be themselves -- the rainbow isn't just about the queer movement, although that is very much the center of it, it's about fostering an inclusive space, and that needs to resonate everywhere." NYC Pride faces sponsorship challenges for 2025 Organizers say 20% of corporate sponsors dropped or scaled back their support this year, leaving the group with a $750,000 funding gap. "Our organization, just like many other organizations in the Pride Movement, have experienced some shortfalls with regard to our fundraising this year. But we're not federally funded, we're not funded by the state, so I think some of the federal executive orders have sort of scared some sponsors a bit," Alexander said. "We've had many sponsors double down and actually support us even further. So we're really looking for support from individual donors, from other foundations, who really believe that creating a safe space for everyone is important." Alexander said they had to limit some programming, but have been able to keep their Pride Fest street festival and Youth Pride event alive. "One of our most important events this weekend is our Youth Pride, which is, for many young people, their very first opportunity for them to celebrate their unique individuality. So we think it's important for us to continue to create those safe spaces, even if we don't have the funding sources that we've had before," he said. Combatting LGBTQ+ hate Vijah Ramjattan, executive director of New York City's Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, says, "There's no place for hate in New York City." "If you commit a crime, the police will be out there," he told CBS News New York. The latest available data from the NYPD show 11 LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the first quarter of 2025, compared to 16 in the same time period the year prior. Ramjattan said his office is working to educate and heal communities. "It will take all of us. Hate crimes cannot be solved or dismantled from the top, it has to be from the grassroots level," he said. "I also know that people in New York City want to know about each other. So the more we can create opportunities to speak to each other, get to know each about other, that's what we're focused on." He also spoke about the importance of reaching younger New Yorkers. "We know that if we want to stop hate crimes that adults do, we have to ensure that the youths who are going to be adults one day are educated about hate crimes and they understand the consequences of hate crimes," he said. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch are scheduled to speak about Pride security at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Watch their briefing live on CBS News New York, in the video player above.
Black America Web
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
104: What An Angel Number Between Freedom And Fire Reveals About Black And Queer Survival
Source: David Espejo / Getty If you spend enough time around me, you'll hear me proudly say I was born and raised in North Omaha, Nebraska. To be Black in a place like Omaha is to wrestle for your identity. To craft your Blackness with care. You build it from scratch, from what's handed down and what's taken back. For me, that journey wasn't limited to my Blackness. It was the same when it came to queerness and to my identity as a Black trans woman. But here's the trick: society made queerness seem more accessible. Nobody told me the fine print came stamped in whiteness. That so much of queerness—as it's marketed and magnified—was filtered through white supremacy. That embracing that version of queerness could, in fact, dull the brilliance of my Black joy. I'll never forget the year when the Juneteenth Parade and the Pride Parade fell on the same day in my city. It was a crossroads. For many Black queer folks, there wasn't a question; they chose Juneteenth. I was there too, but that wasn't because I didn't love Pride. I had done my time. I'd been president of Pride, and built Youth Pride from the ground up. I had fought for Pride when it didn't fight for me. I had done the work of making space for my queerness. That day, I was finally making space for my Blackness. What I witnessed, though, was deeper. I saw younger queer folks—especially those partnered with non-Black people—being pulled between two identities that, in a just world, would never require a choice. That day didn't just symbolize a scheduling conflict. It symbolized the dailytightrope walk so many Black queer people perform in this country: to choose between being seen and being whole. Let's be honest; in many Black-centered institutions, queerness is welcome only when it plays small. To be embraced as queer, you often have to downplay what makes you different and keep your queerness at the bottom of your identity list. Because at the end of the day, you're Black first, right? Source: Olga Tsikarishvili / Getty But flip it. In most mainstream queer spaces, you're expected to check your Blackness at the door—unless that Blackness fits a stereotype or serves as a costume. Unless it entertains. Unless it's for consumption. So I need you to hear me when I say, it is not an accident that Juneteenth and Pride exist in the same month. It is not a coincidence that our most powerful Black changemakers were also queer. It is not by chance that the intersection of Blackness and queerness continues to be a birthplace for brilliance, resistance, and transformation. This is divine alignment. Now, I know I'm preaching to folks who feel me. But let me be clear: I write this not just for affirmation; I write this for the Black folks who don't see the world like I do. Not because your perception will limit my freedom, but because none of us are free if we believe we can get to the other side and leave our people behind. Especially the people who make us uncomfortable. Liberation isn't real if it's only for the versions of us that are palatable. White communities have spent the last 50 years mobilizing an agenda that has taken root in every corner of this country, and they didn't do it because they were all the same, or because they were all straight, or because they were all moral. They didn't do it because they agreed. They did it because they were all white. That was the only prerequisite. I'm not saying we should build coalitions based on scarcity and fear. Source: Michele Ursi / Getty I know that game. And I know the exhaustion it's bred in our communities. But we'd be foolish not to notice the power in what happens when people align, even amid difference. So let's look at what alignment has given us. On June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people in Texas were finally emancipated, triggering the birth of a freedom dream that gave us Michelle Obama on a float, Oprah commanding empires, Megan Thee Stallion reminding us we ain't got knees like we used to, and Brandy and Monica arguing over 'The Boy Is Mine.' It gave us Whitney. Mariah. Aretha. Patti. Jazmine. And 104 years later, on June 29, 1969, a Black Trans woman—Marsha P. Johnson—sparked a revolution at Stonewall that gave us TS Madison, the queen of media; Queen Latifah, a mogul and a mother; Laverne Cox, making Emmy history; Bayard Rustin, strategist to Dr. King; Nikki Giovanni, living her radical brilliance in real time; Miss Major, building a legacy of elder care for our community; Toni Bryce and Monroe Alise, reshaping television; A'Ziah 'Zola' King, whose Black girlhood became cinematic canon; and me—Dominique Morgan—who went from a prisonyard to walking down the street named after her in the same state. It was 104 years between June 19, 1865, the emancipation of the last enslaved Black people in Texas, and June 29, 1969, the night a Black Trans woman helped ignite a revolution at Stonewall. That gap isn't just historical. It's spiritual. In numerology, 104 is often seen as an Angel Number—a divine reminder to embrace change and align your actions with a higher purpose. It signals that transformation is not only possible; it's coming. It asks us to lean into discomfort with faith, to shift our mindset toward growth, and to recognize love as the connective tissue in our evolution. That's what alignment has always been — a form of divine choreography. We were always meant to be moving together—even when the rhythm was hard to hear. Source: Jackson State University / Getty You really wanna tell me we aren't aligned? Alignment doesn't mean we're the same. Alignment doesn't mean we never argue. Alignment doesn't mean it's easy. For me, alignment means that we are fighting harder to stay in tandem than we are eager to fall apart. That's the definition I want you to take from this piece. That's the call to action. That's the invitation. Because the world will give us 100 reasons to separate. They will whisper that your queerness disqualifies you. That your Blackness is too loud. That your transness is a liability. That your softness makes you weak. And all the while, they'll lie, steal, kill, and destroy, just to keep themselves aligned. As my Grandma Woodie used to say, 'Don't let the devil use you.' This Juneteenth, this Pride, I'm asking us to make a different choice. To honor our collective brilliance. To hold the line. To stay in tandem. To choose alignment—again and again and again. SEE ALSO: Pride Is Still Protest: World Pride in the Era of Trump 2.0 Kendrick Sampson's BLD PWR Teams Up With SisterSong And GBEF For Houston Juneteenth Event SEE ALSO 104: What An Angel Number Between Freedom And Fire Reveals About Black And Queer Survival was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
DC Pride Parade 2025: Route, time, what to know about festivities
June is Pride Month and DC's Capital Pride Alliance is hosting WorldPride – a global festival that promotes LGBTQ+ visibility and awareness – on Saturday, June 7, which is expected to draw thousands of visitors from across the country. "This beloved tradition honors our history and acknowledges the evolution of the LGBTQ+ neighborhoods in Washington, DC, while respecting the origins and importance of taking to the streets in our fight for equality," the event's website reads. WorldPride, which began May 17, is brimming with events and celebrations – musical performances, fashion shows, discussion groups and subcommunity gatherings such as Trans Pride, Latinx Pride, Youth Pride and beyond. The festival culminates with the city's Pride Parade on June 7 and a massive rally and march from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol on June 8. Here's what to know about DC's 2025 Pride Parade, including the start time and route. The parade steps off at 2 p.m. from 14th and T streets NW and goes through Thomas Circle before turning onto Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the festival's website. The parade is scheduled to end on Pennsylvania Ave NW, near the Navy Memorial. You can see the full route here. There will be numerous road closures and parking restrictions around the city on June 6 and 7. The Metropolitan Police Department listed in a news release on May 28 the full list of closures and restrictions. You can see the full release here. According to reporting from the Washington Post, the National Park Service imposed 'a temporary closure of Dupont Circle Park from approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, 2025, through approximately 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 8, 2025.' The closure was requested by United States Park Police, which called it 'necessary for the maintenance of public health and safety and protection of natural and cultural resources in Dupont Circle Park," according to reporting from the Washington Post. Contributing: Susan Miller, USA TODAY Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at Gdhauari@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: DC Pride Parade 2025: Route, start time, what to know
Time Out
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
7 events and parties during Tokyo Pride 2025
Youth Pride is targeted toward – you guessed it – the youth. The two-day event on June 14 and 15 features several goings-on from panel discussions to a fashion show, all aimed at encouraging LGBTQ youth and providing opportunities for connection and growth.
