[OutVoice] Romes Goes Gaga For EuroPride + more global LGBT news

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Tue Jun 14 12:49:50 CDT 2011


 
 
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Lady Gaga and a million celebrants inspire each other at EuroPride;
It's better to be gay than Berlusconi in Rome and good to be gay in
Tel Aviv, ten thousand pucker up with Pride in Athens, Bucharest
marchers outnumber homophobes, Richmond's Federal Bank reserves its
rainbow rights, families visiting Orlando's Disney World are undeterred
by airborne Gay Day warnings, and more global LGBT news

- In "NewsWrap": Pride kicks off in the traditional month of June with an estimated million celebrants at EuroPride in Rome, up to 100,000 brave sweltering heat in Tel Aviv to parade with Pride in the Israeli beachfront city, about 10,000 participate in Athens' seventh annual Pride march, doubling last year's number, while British, Swedish and U.S. ambassadors join 150 at the Bucharest Pride march following an anti-gay rally in the Romanian capital... forecasted rain doesn't fall, but thousands dress more warmly than in years past in Manitoba's chilly capital of Winnipeg for the city's annual Pride parade, and while rain does fall in California's capital of Sacramento, it doesn't dampen the spirits of the thousands who march with Pride... non-gay ally comic and actress and Salt Lake City native Roseanne Barr serves as that city's Pride Parade Grand Marshall that sees some 30,000 celebrants... an estimated 2,000 people join Pride-proclaiming Mayor Junie White to march through downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina, with many blowing kisses at church-based protesters... with absurd comments including the claim that homosexuality "undermines the American economy," Virginia Republican state lawmaker Robert G. Marshall condemns the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank for flying the rainbow flag as a salute to Pride month, but the Bank refuses to capitulate to the homophobic attack... the right wing Florida Family Associations 7-thousand-dollar aerial warning fails to deter families from visiting Disney World in Orlando on "Gay Day"... and more LGBT news from around the world (written by GREG GORDON, produced by STEVE PRIDE, and reported this week by JOHN TORRES & ROBERT LEBLANC).

- Organizers declared, "We are a million people!" as pop megastar LADY GAGA took to the Europride 2011 stage on June 11th at ROME's Circus Maximus. Along with a mini-set of her songs including the anthemic "Born This Way", the icon-activist honored her Italian roots, murdered gay fashion designer Gianni Versace, and the many courageous champions of the international struggle for LGBT liberation (outro'd by a snippet from her live performance of "Born This Way").
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