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Fast Forward Armed Neo-Nazis Disrupt Detroit Pride Parade
Armed members of a white supremacist group marched on what organizers said was Michigan’s biggest LGBT event on Saturday, with police intervening to keep the neo-Nazis and marchers separate, Fox News reported.. Members of the National Socialist Movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “one of the largest and most prominent neo-Nazi groups…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Protesters Demonstrate At DC Dyke March Over Ban On Jewish Pride Flag
(JTA) — A handful of protesters demonstrated at the DC Dyke March over a ban on the Jewish Pride flag, a rainbow stripped flag with a white Star of David in the middle. The flag looks too much like the flag of Israel, organizers had said before the march, which banned the flags of countries…
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Fast Forward Groups Bearing Banned Jewish Flags Plan To Defy Dyke March
Updated, 2:20 p.m. Jewish feminist and LGBTQ groups plan to join the D.C. Dyke March in Washington on Friday, with many members expected to bring “Jewish Pride” flags — featuring a Star of David prominently in the middle — despite the march’s ban on images that are reminiscent of the Israeli flag. The march, a…
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Fast Forward Police Detain 2 Over Plans To Disrupt Jerusalem Pride Parade
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Police detained two people on suspicion of plans to disrupt the Jerusalem Pride Parade. They were arrested on Thursday morning, several hours before the scheduled start of the annual parade through the streets of Jerusalem. Some 30,000 are expected to participate in the parade. More than 2,500 uniformed and plainclothes policemen…
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Fast Forward DC Dyke March Bans Jewish Pride Flag
Updated 2:50 p.m. A gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. has been criticized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banning Jewish and Israeli symbols from its Friday event. The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities who feel excluded from the more mainstream Pride parade, organizers told…
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Opinion I Won Marriage Equality For Gay Americans. I Am Horrified At The Dyke March Ban On Jewish Symbols.
The growing, well-documented rise of anti-Semitism in the past few years in this country is disturbing. But there is something even more insidious when that discrimination comes from supposed friends. The D.C. Dyke March, an event that claims “to celebrate and center all Dykes,” has decided to ban certain symbols, including Israeli or Jewish Pride…
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Opinion Fellow Dykes: We Must Be Both Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine
I remember the first Dyke March, organized by the Lesbian Avengers in 1993 during the LGBT March on Washington. I was there, and I remember feeling that I was finally free — that we dykes could claim all of who we were — our full and complex identities, our bodies, our love, our commitments to…
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The Schmooze Neil Patrick Harris Will Lead The Tel Aviv Pride Parade
Tel Aviv pride just got a little gayer, a little cooler, a little more Neil Patrick Harris. Actor Neil Patrick Harris will be this year’s international ambassador for this year’s Tel Aviv Pride Parade, the Jerusalem Post reported. The 45-year-old actor, who is not Jewish, is beloved for his comedy, panache, and good hair. He…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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