The New York City metropolitan area had an estimated 568,903 self-identifying GLB residents. Īs of 2005, New York City was home to an estimated 272,493 self-identifying gay and bisexual individuals. LGBT Americans in New York City constitute by significant margins the largest self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the United States, and the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village are widely considered to be the genesis of the modern gay rights movement. Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote that New York City has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful" LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theater". New York state, a state in the northeastern United States, has one of the largest and the most prominent LGBTQ populations in the world. In fact, I'd go as far as to bet that naked bike rides are more common than nudity in gay pride parades, which I think pretty much undermines whatever point you were trying to make about the gay community by yoking them as a whole to a few rare instances of what might be called "indecent" public behavior.The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement and an icon of queer culture is adorned with rainbow pride flags.
As I already pointed out (and you can google it to see the pictures for yourself-and there are kids in the crowds watching there as well) every year, Seattle has a very public naked bike ride (and Seattle isn't the only major city that has naked bike rides, there's actually quite a few). However, a few anecdotal instances of nudity at gay pride events doesn't really suggest anything about the gay community as a whole in any event. If your contention that this is somehow the norm, than you simply must provide some kind of evidence that supports that contention. I, and other people have already pointed out that we've actually seen these events ourselves right here in America and haven't seen what you claim happens.
I asked you to provide some statistical evidence and you reply, without supplying that evidence, but again implying that somehow public nudity and sex is the norm, rather than the rare exception at these events. Why do they keep supporting them when they are like this? The gay pride parades do more harm to gays' images than anything else. I also have to ask why gays, if they say they are good parents, want to have these people in their parade? How is that helping people to see they would make good parents? Well the picture I posted clearly showed naked men in the parade in front of children. So I see your anecdotal evidence and raise you anecdotal evidence of a regular public display of naked (mostly) straight people. However, the decidedly not gay (although I'm sure there's gay people participating, it's not a gay event) solstice bike ride in Seattle does feature nudity, every year. My own anecdotal evidence is that the gay pride parades in Seattle and Tacoma don't feature nudity and public sex. I was asking for hard, statistical evidence, not anecdotal evidence from the anti-gay brigade. I don't consider it a lie (necessarily) but it's not what I was asking. I also saw folks walking with "F- the Christian Right" t-shirts in the parade. Back then I saw total nudity, public sex acts and calls to legalize sex with children. I've been to the Toronto shame parade and did a story on it for the Interim during the 1990's. 7 months ago What you saw in Ottawa was mild.Of course, you will say this is all a lie when you consider the source. Here’s what I saw.Ī comment after the article. LifeSiteNews Mobile | I attended Ottawa’s Gay Pride parade.