Tag: Pride

A Hijacking: The Opportunism Behind Calls to Boycott Johannesburg Pride

October 22, 2025

True solidarity starts in Africa — confronting the laws, hate, and hypocrisy that still criminalize and kill our own – rendering boycott foolish, cruel and counter-productive.  By Melanie Nathan, Oct 22, 2025 Johannesburg Pride, Africa’s oldest Pride celebration, is under attack, not from the usual homophobes or politicians, but from local activists. Several organizations are … More A Hijacking: The Opportunism Behind Calls to Boycott Johannesburg Pride

San Diego Pride Founder Calls for Cancellation of Kehlani Jew-Hate at Pride

June 2, 2025

BY Melanie Nathan, June 02, 2025. Since contracting Kehlani as a headline act for San Diego Pride, a coveted honor, there has been a spate of attacks against Jews in the United States that is very clearly rooted in the call  to “Globalize the Intifada”, a movement which Kehlani not only supports, but fervently promotes … More San Diego Pride Founder Calls for Cancellation of Kehlani Jew-Hate at Pride

Call for Peace and Unity Among LGBTQI+ as we Head into Pride Month

May 24, 2025

There is a massive difference between calling for the eradication of Jews and their ancestral home versus calling for peace in the region. Whether you like it or not, and no matter how you choose to define it – if you are participating or supporting any so-called resistance through marching, social media sharing, commentary, etc. … More Call for Peace and Unity Among LGBTQI+ as we Head into Pride Month

Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. Calls for San Diego Pride to Stop Fostering Intifada

May 22, 2025

The report by African Human Rights Coalition says it all: Calling for INTIFADA incites violence and hence is not FREE SPEECH. It is time to stop and for all to take responsibility for the harm their words can cause. AHRC Condemns the Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. while Calling for Cancellation of Kehlani at … More Horrific Murder of Jews in D.C. Calls for San Diego Pride to Stop Fostering Intifada

Bay Area Reporter Hit Job on San Francisco Pride is Dangerous and Shameful

April 13, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, April 13, 2025 (Updated 4/14) The San Francisco based Bay Area Reporter, published “SF Pride reportedly denies request to name deported gay makeup artist honorary grand marshal” by John Ferrannini, Assistant Editor , Friday, April 11, 2025. Dramatic headline for a big non-drama that became a big drama on demand! Why am … More Bay Area Reporter Hit Job on San Francisco Pride is Dangerous and Shameful

AHRC Calls on WorldPride for Answers to Boycott Questions

April 4, 2025

By Melanie Nathan, April 03, 2025 – First Published at African Human Rights Coalition website here. Last month African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) called for a global boycott of the 2025 venue for WorldPride, based on safety issues, especially involving the risk of detention to foreign visitor attendees when entering our borders, and also as … More AHRC Calls on WorldPride for Answers to Boycott Questions

ILGA Goes Full Antisemitic Complicit in Cancelling LGBTQI Jews

October 29, 2024

By Melanie Nathan, October 29, 2024 ILGA WORLD issued the below statement refusing the Israeli member organization, The Aguda the right to  submit Tel Aviv as a host city for a vote for the World Conference 2026-2027. In doing this, ILGA also decided to suspend the member organization. African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) is the … More ILGA Goes Full Antisemitic Complicit in Cancelling LGBTQI Jews

San Francisco Pride Gaza Statement where Fluff Fails Truth

February 8, 2024

by Melanie Nathan, February 08, 2024. “Now my disappointment and sense of exclusion, based on the imbalance reflecting sentiment, and despite the statement’s insistence that through 2024’s theme, Pride as a Beacon of Love, forces me to resign from my many years of San Francisco Pride support, love and membership.” I have a long and … More San Francisco Pride Gaza Statement where Fluff Fails Truth

VP Kamala Harris and Sister Roma on San Francisco Pride stage Shame on the anti-PRIDE LA Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers turn against PRIDE to Oppress LGBTQI Freedoms

May 18, 2023

The Sisters stands boldly against the oppression of sexuality and gender minorities and now the Dodgers are actually participating in the very oppression the Sisters serve to thwart! The Los Angeles Dodgers seemingly supportive of PRIDE – but that turned on a dime! The Dodgers are now embroiled in classic anti-LGBTQI+ oppression. In one ‘FOUL‘ … More Los Angeles Dodgers turn against PRIDE to Oppress LGBTQI Freedoms

Prides Petition President Museveni – do NOT sign KILL THE GAYS LAW

March 24, 2023

March 24, 2023: This week Uganda’s Parliament passed the dangerous Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. It is now on the desk of President Yoweri Museveni awaiting his assent which will then make it law. It is one of the worst anti-homosexuality laws in the world and serves to license what is already occurring: gay hunts, assault, … More Prides Petition President Museveni – do NOT sign KILL THE GAYS LAW

San Francisco Pride Main Stage Speech with a Rousing Intro to Something Serious

June 30, 2022

This past Sunday at SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE, 2022, I had the great honor to present, on San Francisco Civic Center Plaza Main-Stage, an historic and poignant PRIDE video greeting from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Dr. Filippo Grandi, preceded by the courageous voices of LGBTQI+ people in forced displacement.   In a world where over … More San Francisco Pride Main Stage Speech with a Rousing Intro to Something Serious

L-PROJECT’s Women’s Freedom Festival at WEHO Pride

May 13, 2022

“WOMEN’S FREEDOM FESTIVAL” PRESENTED BY THE L-PROJECT LA AND SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD CELEBRATES PRIDE! WHEN: FRIDAY, JUNE 3 @ 7PM TO 10PM, FREE Admission. LIVE Event. WHAT: The Women’s Freedom Festival will feature LGBTQI+BIPOC and non-binary musicians, comedians, poets, and activists, along with a featured performance from MILCK, singing her latest protest song, We Won’t … More L-PROJECT’s Women’s Freedom Festival at WEHO Pride

Hunt and Kill The Gays Ugandan Minister Lokodo is Dead

January 30, 2022

The Ugandan Minister Who Hunted Gays is DEAD ! Uganda’s Former ethics and integrity minister Rev Fr Simon Lokodo is dead. Ironically Fr Lokodo, one of the greatest human rights abusers who persecuted LGBTQI Ugandans was a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and in commission of this work died Saturday morning in … More Hunt and Kill The Gays Ugandan Minister Lokodo is Dead

Polish Parliament Sends Draft Bill Banning Pride for Further Work in Committees

October 29, 2021

Today, on October 29, 2021, the Polish Parliament voted to send a bill which proposes to amend the right to freedom of assembly to ban Pride marches and other events promoting LGBTQI equality for further work in committees. The draft bill stipulates that any event which questions marriage as a relationship between a woman and a man or … More Polish Parliament Sends Draft Bill Banning Pride for Further Work in Committees

PrideArts Festival of Three Queer Documentary Features

August 27, 2021

PrideArts announces festival of three queer documentary features streaming September 19-29 Lesbian filmmaking, pre-Stonewall drag queens, and transgender ministers are subjects of three recent feature-length documentary films to be streamed in September CHICAGO – PrideArts today announced a festival of documentary films concerning facets of queer life in America that have been largely unexplored in mass … More PrideArts Festival of Three Queer Documentary Features

Pandemic reduces Heroes and Zeroes to a Reflection on 2020

December 21, 2020

Each Year I write a top 10 Heroes and Zeroes. This year it is very simple! Or should I say Pandemic worn down – renders it simple- The Heroes in each and every category are LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees and the Zeroes are Donald Trump,  his grifter family and each and every single Republican … More Pandemic reduces Heroes and Zeroes to a Reflection on 2020

World Zionist Congress Embraces LGBTQ Initiatives

July 6, 2020

The 37th World Zionist Congress currently taking place in Jerusalem for the first time is setting up a unit to work with the LGBTQ Jewish community. Within the framework of Pride Month, the World Zionist Organization (WZO )has established a Unit for Activities with the LGBT community that will operate in three spheres: The central one will … More World Zionist Congress Embraces LGBTQ Initiatives

Thelma Houston Will Be San Francisco Pride Sunday headliner for the Pride 50 online celebration.

June 23, 2020

San Francisco Pride 50: Generations of Hope Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, contestants from HBO’s Legendary, and Celebrity Grand Marshal W. Kamau Bell join online programming for the nation’s largest gathering of the LGBTQ+ community and allies. Concurrent stream on SFPride.org will feature special community programming from the Don Julio Latin Stage, the Soul of … More Thelma Houston Will Be San Francisco Pride Sunday headliner for the Pride 50 online celebration.

African HRC Launches Video Pride Message from LGBTQI Refugees in Kakuma Camp

June 19, 2020

Yes, you may have a sneak preview – though official launch is 11 am PST tomorrow at the event LGBTQ Pride and Migration 2020 tomorrow June 20th for World refugee Day. This Saturday we invite you to join African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) as we celebrate World Refugee Day with PRIDE, honoring the brave and … More African HRC Launches Video Pride Message from LGBTQI Refugees in Kakuma Camp

LGBTQI Pride on World Refugee Day

June 10, 2020

LGBTQ DIGITAL PRIDE AND MIGRATION 2020 will commemorate the struggles of displaced people and LGBTQ Refugees and is scheduled this year for World Refugee Day, which is celebrated annually on June 20th. World Refugee Day commemorates the struggles of millions of displaced people. The significant population of displaced people who identify as LGBTQI underscores the importance of celebrating … More LGBTQI Pride on World Refugee Day

Our San Francisco Pride Will Not be Defeated by COVID-19

April 14, 2020

Having been a Community Grand Marshal for San Francisco Pride in 2014 and also having served on the San Francisco Pride Board as vice president, I find it very sad but absolutely necessary to support the following Statement from the executive director of San Francisco Pride, considering the dangers we face as a result of … More Our San Francisco Pride Will Not be Defeated by COVID-19

Interview with Chairperson of the Historic Gaborone Pride in Botswana

December 3, 2019

HOW GABORONE PRIDE MAKES CASE FOR WHY LGBTQI TOURIST AND GROUPS SHOULD SUPPORT BOTSWANA Botswana is a country I love. I visited often as a young child. My late mom is now buried just across the border in Motswedi, (formally other names, then Union of South Africa, then Bophuthatswana, and now South Africa) with great … More Interview with Chairperson of the Historic Gaborone Pride in Botswana

Decriminalized Botswana Holds Inaugural Pride in Gaborone

December 1, 2019

Hey World- check this out –  PRIDE in Botswana is now OUT in the open and does not mean a Safari or a Pride of Lions! Welcome to Gaborone Pride in Botswana. In the wake of this years’ historic decriminalization of homosexuality, Botswana’s gay community held its inaugural Pride in Gabarone. Here are the pictures … More Decriminalized Botswana Holds Inaugural Pride in Gaborone

Victims of Transphobic and Homophobic Attack Speak Out

September 16, 2019

Attorney Lisa Bloom, of the famed civil rights law firm, The Bloom Firm, has taken on the case of four members of the transgender and gay community who were attacked at Las Perlas, a Los Angeles venue. Bloom noted the courage of her clients as well as her pride in taking on the case. She … More Victims of Transphobic and Homophobic Attack Speak Out

History Made as the Rainbow Flag Ruled for Love Against Apartheid Hate

August 21, 2019

The banning of the South African Apartheid Flag as a symbol of hate now historically stands in stark and judicial contrast to the LGBTQI Rainbow flag – in effect expressly ruled a symbol of love! The Black Monday protests, which flared-up in October 2017 in South Africa, forced the Nelson Mandela Foundation and SA Human … More History Made as the Rainbow Flag Ruled for Love Against Apartheid Hate

Reclaiming Lesbian Space and Fighting Erasure with Sally Miller Gearhart

June 19, 2019

Hey, Lesbians and Feminists Let’s start with a much watch documentary: A Great Ride It is Pride month. This year San Francisco Pride’s theme is Generations of Resistance. In 2017 San Francisco Pride honored Sally Miller Gearhart with a long overdue Heritage of Pride, Pride Freedom Award.  Now Sally shines in a new documentary directed … More Reclaiming Lesbian Space and Fighting Erasure with Sally Miller Gearhart

Gay High Schooler Denied Valedictory Speech to Join Victory Fund at World Pride in NYC

June 17, 2019

Nat Werth to attend World Pride as well as Victory Institute’s Candidate & Campaign Training LGBTQ Victory Fund today announced that Nat Werth – the Wisconsin high school valedictorian who was denied a valedictory speech because he is gay – will march with Victory Fund at World Pride in New York City. He will also … More Gay High Schooler Denied Valedictory Speech to Join Victory Fund at World Pride in NYC

250,000 March in Largest Gay Pride Parade in the Middle East

June 14, 2019

* Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor: “We will continue to support and celebrate our local LGBTQ culture and act as a welcoming destination for the International gay community.” *International Ambassador for Tel Aviv pride 2019, Neil Patrick Harris: “Tel Aviv Pride has become an important symbol of LGBTQ visibility and acceptance on the world stage. June 14, 2019, … More 250,000 March in Largest Gay Pride Parade in the Middle East