#Dublin Gay Pride Parade

[raylangivins]

Entering the Eras tour trenches for my 11 year old cousin 🫡

[dan6085]

Top 20 largest street parties that are well-documented:

1. Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - This annual event is one of the world's largest street parties, attracting millions of visitors each year. It features samba parades, colorful costumes, and lively music and dancing.

2. Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany - This annual beer festival is one of the world's largest street parties, with over 6 million visitors each year. It features traditional Bavarian music, food, and of course, beer.

3. Mardi Gras in New Orleans, USA - This annual event is a celebration of music, food, and culture, attracting over a million visitors each year. It features elaborate parades, colorful costumes, and plenty of food and drink.

4. La Tomatina in Buñol, Spain - This annual tomato-throwing festival attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world. Participants throw tomatoes at each other in the streets, creating a massive tomato fight.

5. Notting Hill Carnival in London, UK - This annual event is the largest street party in the UK, attracting over a million visitors each year. It features Caribbean music, food, and dancing, with colorful costumes and elaborate floats.

6. Holi in India - This annual festival is a celebration of love and color, with participants throwing brightly colored powder at each other in the streets. It is celebrated all over India and is one of the country's most popular festivals.

7. Festa della Sensa in Venice, Italy - This annual event is a celebration of Venice's maritime history, featuring a boat parade and other nautical-themed activities.

8. Dia de los Muertos in Mexico - This annual festival is a celebration of life and death, with participants dressing up in colorful costumes and painting their faces to honor their ancestors.

9. Chinese New Year in China - This annual festival is one of the world's largest street parties, with over 1 billion people celebrating across China. It features dragon and lion dances, fireworks, and plenty of food and drink.

10. Edinburgh Hogmanay in Scotland - This annual New Year's Eve celebration is the largest street party in Scotland, featuring music, fireworks, and other festivities.

11. Saint Patrick's Day in Dublin, Ireland - This annual festival is a celebration of all things Irish, attracting visitors from all over the world. It features parades, music, and plenty of green beer.

12. Songkran in Thailand - This annual festival is a celebration of the Thai New Year, with participants throwing water at each other in the streets to wash away the past year's sins.

13. Fiestas de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain - This annual event is best known for the running of the bulls, where participants run alongside the bulls in the streets of Pamplona.

14. Cariwest in Edmonton, Canada - This annual festival is a celebration of Caribbean culture, featuring music, food, and dancing in the streets.

15. Saint Lucia Jazz Festival in Saint Lucia - This annual festival is a celebration of jazz music, attracting visitors from all over the world. It features concerts, workshops, and other jazz-related activities.

16. Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil - This annual event is one of the largest gay pride parades in the world, attracting millions of visitors each year.

17. Yi Peng in Chiang Mai, Thailand - This annual festival is a celebration of the Thai Lantern Festival, with participants releasing thousands of lanterns into the sky.

18. Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea - This annual festival is a celebration of mud, with participants slathering themselves in mud and taking part in mud-related activities.

19. Glastonbury Festival in the UK - This annual music festival is one of the largest in the world, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year.

20. Burning Man in Nevada, USA - This annual festival is a celebration of art, music, and self-expression, with participants creating a temporary city in the Nevada desert.

[phantom-of-the-memes]

All star by smash mouth started playing after I took this, so needless to say it was the best moment of my life

[patriciavetinari]

The financial gay agenda

Reblog to get gay money on your account

[an-ragaire-anseo]

Fellas is it gay if I react with a pride flag to another girls story

[meawslove]

"We Are Family" Theme Helps To Double Dublin, Ireland's Pride Celebration

#Dublin #Equality #Gay_Parade #Ireland #Pride

I love seeing the pictures of ...

[swingingliveaway]

I’m currently in Dublin and like, Dublin is always nice and I like it a lot, but rn there are pride flags everywhere. You can’t walk through the city centre without running into a bunch and it makes me so happy? And so many stores have pride-related stuff on display, and yeah I know, marketing and stuff, but still. It’s so nice that it’s so visible over here.

[artisavoid]

gay is a-okay

[olikaulitzz]

I’m feeling super nostalgic today 😔. Ireland, you proved to me that I am capable of feeling anything other than numbness. I was filled with nothing but happiness and peace during my stay. I would give absolutely anything to be in this beautiful country right now.

[glitter-worm]

I arrive in the city and as I walk around I see people wearing flags and face paint. And the parade hadn't even started yet. I meet my friend and he shows me around. We meet others. We hug, we laugh. Everything is a little bit better than ordinary life. I walk through the streets and I'm constantly catching glimpses of rainbow. In shop windows, wrapped around shoulders, I hear a flag flapping in the wind from the top of a pole. It's almost magical. Every rainbow makes the good things shine brighter, and the voices you try to leave behind quieten down. Fastfoward to the parade. I didn't mean to walk it... but I did. And it felt powerful. Walking, dancing, chanting, cheering. Everyone encouraging you to love yourself. I forget about the challenges I face. I proudly shout out with the crowd. I tell new people I AM A BOY. My friend is calling me "he". It's... it's beautiful. And I feel euphoric. All of these people have had a journey. Everyone here had to go through something to figure themselves out, wether small, or terrible. There are probably people here with a near identical situation to me. And it's so comforting. And that's exactly it. The comfort. The comfort that there are so many others. So many who are strong enough to be here. A community. Even when you feel the euphoria while surrounded my excitement, there is still comfort there. At the heart of it all. And it is beautiful.

[burnitalldownism]

Ho-kay...this is gonna be a longish one and I’ll try and keep it orderly.

So; we finally got a new coalition government in Ireland five months after the general election. Only relevant coz that means we have new ministers and the new minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration is Roderic O’Gorman, a gay man. A gay man being the minister for children was always gonna bring the far right out of the woodwork so they went digging. They found one photo of him at Dublin Pride with British LGBT activist Peter Tatchell (the one and only time the two met) and then found an op-ed written by Tatchell years earlier in which they claim he condones paedophelia. I won’t comment on the letter or Tatchell’s clarifications on its content coz I’m still a bit iffy on both but you can get a summary of the situation here:

The point is that the new minister for children took one photo with someone he’d never met before or since at a Pride parade, that’s the extent of their association. The far-right has latched onto this as evidence of the inherent danger of LGBT “ideology” to children of course.

Now I’m sure everyone’s aware of Ireland’s horrendous history of abuses committed against children by the Catholic Church. Sexual abuse, forced labour, forced adoptions of children of unwed mothers for profit, hundreds of deaths of children of unwed mothers at church institutions .etc. You might not be aware that it went beyond the church too. Politicians, police and senior members of the church assisted in covering up these crimes for decades. And while the clergy men and women who perpetrated them have been and are being brought to justice, their enablers? Not so much.

So we have ex-politicians, clergy and police who 100% knowingly enabled the horrific abuse of children for decades, still alive and unpunished in this country. But the far-right’s calling for the resignation of an elected official because of a photo taken years ago and a letter whose content isn’t clear cut. The same devoutly Catholic far right who love the police yet have never called for action to be taken against all those people who enabled abuse. Who bemoan the righteous vilification the Catholic Church now enjoys in Ireland because of those heinous acts because it’s not fair.

But hey...it’s all about protecting the children right?

[theophaniak-blog]

I'm not on Tumblr very often but as pride month comes to a close I wanna say a big 'ol happy pride!

My local festival in Dublin was today and it was a hoot 😍

Big props to the people who stood up for us with that preacher in town.

Sidenote: Pride made me thirsty for affection oops hi I like women xxx

[somebogwitch]

YouTube Should Not Be Welcome at Pride

YouTube Should Not Be Welcome at Pride

In organising of a Pride parade the idea that homophobic harassment is bad and intolerable should not be a controversial one. But this year in Dublin YouTube will roll its usual float down O’Connell covered in glitter and playing bangers, gaining all the good press of Pride, while supporting and profiting from homophobic, racist harassment.

Carlos Maza, a gay Latino reporter with Vox, has…

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Luck of the Irish: Dublin Pride!

Luck of the Irish: Dublin Pride!

Perhaps you’ve already found your paramour at yec.com but you two aren’t sure where to travel together? Or you’re just chatting with this really cool guy and you want to take him somewhere special? Well, you’re in luck – Dublin Pride parade is almost upon us, and you’d be smart to pack your bags and head to Ireland!

Dublin Pride is always held on the last week(end) of June – this year it falls…

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London Pride 2019! 倫敦同志大遊行！愛最大! Gay/ LGBT parade! （ENG subtitle) vlog 27

I was lucky to attend the biggest London Pride during my London trip. It was my 2nd time to join LGBT parade. The first time was like 10 years ago in West Hollywood Los Angeles. I have so much fun and enjoy very much. As you can see from the video, I was climbing to a "dangerous spot" to shoot the video. I hope that you are also enjoying while seeing my video. Don't forget to subscribe my channel "sophisticated world traveler." Let's wandering here and there. MUSIC INFORMATION AS BELOW, PROFILE GAY PRIDE DUBLIN 2016 @ PRE CIRCUIT PARTY - RICK BRAILE by Rick Braile

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Anti-Trans Reporting and JK R

I was going to do a post trying to touch on everything around the misinformation about LGBT issues, but since things are picking up, I’m going to just jump in where we are. Yesterday provided examples of news propaganda as well as another dodgy JK Rowling effort. In response to the UK Government’s u-turn on the conversion therapy ban (which was promised by Theresa May when she was PM and more recently endorsed by Johnson) then subsequent u-turn where they said they would ban it except for trans people, there were protests in London, Belfast and Dublin. The screenshots of BBC and ITV tweets show a stark contrast in reporting. The BBC reports hundreds of protestors attended in London but ITV say thousands. Organisers estimate there were 3,000 in attendance. I was pleasantly surprised to see the ITV tweet and the replies from trans people thanking them are quite telling about what they’ve come to expect from the media. 

The pictures chosen are also quite enlightening. While ITV chose a picture featuring a diverse crowd, with no individual as the focus, in front of a banner, the BBC chose to centre a drag queen in theirs. Drag queens were there and of course welcome as a longstanding feature of LGBT culture. However, I feel that the BBC focusing attention on a drag queen contributes to the idea that trans women are just men dressing up as caricatures of women, which they’re not. Drag queens are men who dress up as women but they do it for entertainment purposes and it’s not their identity. 

I’ll come back to the BBC in a bit but JK Rowling was also at an event in London at the same time. Previously, in response to criticism of her comments about trans issues, she tweeted, ‘I would march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans.’ This was her first chance to do that. Trans people have literally just been discriminated against for being trans by the UK Government who described conversion therapy as ‘abhorrent’ have decided to ban it for everyone but trans people. Rowling chose instead to intend a much smaller gathering for lunch with a fringe lesbian group called Get the L Out, plus a few straight people who have become high profile because of their Gender Critical (GC - the more polite way of referring to people who are actively anti-trans). The group included MPs Rosie Duffield (Labour) and Joanna Cherry (SNP), a lawyer suing Stonewall and a couple of columnists who used to write for the Guardian but now regularly write anti-trans pieces for the Daily Mail and the Telegraph. Some of the attendees are also supportive of LGB Alliance (a group set up two years ago purporting to be about supporting LGB rights but whose sole focus is anti-trans policy) including the two MPs. Get the L Out’s founding principle was to have a separate group for lesbians away from men. That sounds absolutely fine but several of the people at the lunch are also supportive of LGB Alliance - the only thing they have in common is being anti-trans. 

While LGB Alliance are relatively new, Get the L Out have been going longer. I remember seeing them appear on the news because they gatecrashed a London Pride Parade, which I’ve just found was in 2018. They’ve failed to gain much traction though, with most lesbians interested in any sort of activism being trans-inclusive. JK Rowling, Rosie Duffield and Joanna Cherry’s meeting with them gives them a sense of legitimacy and recognition they previously couldn’t hope to achieve. This is a group who have claimed that trans women existing is rape of women and that they want to eliminate ‘transgenderism’ (a propagand term along the same lines as ‘the gay agenda). 

While still small and insignificant in reality, Get the L Out have made contributions to anti-trans misinformation which have been amplified. One example is what brings me back to the BBC. In October 2021, they published an article headlined: We're being pressured into sex by some trans women. The article had some vague comments from anonymous sources that referred to things such as trans women just being on a dating website as coercion. The only named source turned out to be someone herself accused of several instances of sexual assault, which she admitted to. The same person also published a rant about exterminating trans women on her blog after the BBC article was published. The BBC subsequently removed her contribution from their article. The other evidence was from a poll which was conducted by Get the L Out and had only 80 respondents, with just over half of them suggesting they agreed. The writer for the BBC took that along with the testimony of a sex offender as the basis for an article portraying trans women as predators. 

I know none of this has gone into the actual subject matter of trans issues but I just wanted to highlight how things are being so casually misrepresented, as well as how high profile people like JK Rowling making seemingly innocent comments and appearances can be so harmful.