If there was a takeaway from this year's Pride Month celebrations, it's that they're having trouble coexisting with the pro-Palestinian movement.
Protesters shout slogans against Israel’s military operation in Gaza Strip during the annual Pride parade, in Athens, Greece, June 15, 2024. At Pride events across the U.S, internal tensions over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza have …If there was a takeaway from this year’s Pride Month celebrations, it’s that they’re having trouble coexisting with the pro-Palestinian movement.
In Toronto, the parade was canceled altogether about an hour after pro-Gaza activists brought the procession to a standstill. Parades in Philadelphia, Boston and Denver were interrupted in previous weeks by pro-Palestinian protesters, who blocked procession routes and in some cases tangled with the LGBTQ marchers.the unauthorized anti-Israel demonstration at the June 23 parade, saying that organizers received “several reports of antisemitic language used by protesters.”
Demonstrators sought to draw connections between the two movements. In San Francisco, activists chanted “Intifada! Intifada! Stonewall was an intifada,” conflating the 1969 Stonewall gay-rights riots with the Palestinian uprisings against the Israeli government. “Israel in particular has tried to build support for their colonial conquest by saying, ’Oh, we’re the safest place for gay people,’” sheFew would argue that Israel is less LGBTQ-friendly than Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, the Islamic terrorist group that massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians and others in an Oct. 7 attack, prompting Israel to declare war., which ranks nations based on LGBTQ legal rights and freedoms, with a ranking of 59th out of 196 countries and a score of 59.
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