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Idaho Pride celebration goes on despite protests
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- Title
- He wanted to throw an Idaho town's first Pride. Angry residents had other ideas.
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- Jun 25 2024
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- 2573 words
Sharing because a rural Idaho Pride celebration went off very well, despite "Liberty Dogs" and all of the usual threats (which are serious but for here I want to focus on the success) and it was so successful they had to be warned about capacity limits.
Despite the angry rhetoric, the people supported Pride, even in rural Idaho.
This is good to hear. I'm glad people had the courage and the support.
How do these people use that word with a straight face..?
I guess it's nothing new - GDR, DRPK.. so I assume they must really believe they are saving the children or something..
And this is merely one of the reasons why Pride parades have to exist. Funnily enough, the more people hate us celebrating our right to exist, the more we will celebrate.
Agreed fully. To me this is what "Love wins" means. If we don't let them shut us down from the jump, the community does support us.
My favorite slogan-thing these days ... "We add more genders every time you complain".
An additional article from the Idaho Statesman
I'm not crying you're crying.
I went to the Denver Pridefest this past weekend with my family and it was mostly just a big party, filled with a bunch of a Rainbow Capitalism and having to dump out your water bottles so you can stand in line for an hour to refill them with warm water at the pair of water stations they had in the festival grounds.
Or just pay for some "tickets" to buy a cold bottle of water, which you will have to spend fifteen minutes in line to purchase. Then, if you spend another ten dollars in tickets, you might be able to afford a hot dog at one of the other vendors.
Frankly, I think I would have preferred to go to smaller city Pride celebration, say in Colorado Springs (a religiously backwards part of our state), where my attendance would be more of a showing of political support, rather than just an excuse to vacuum money out of my wallet. In Denver, most of my gay coworkers are just annoyed that over Pride weekend, they have to pay a twenty-dollar cover charge just to go to the gay bar they typically hang out every other weekend. It feels like it would be more pure to attend one in red state, rural America where they need all the help they can get, since this country is sadly regressing in terms of gay/queer/trans rights.
Yeah I don't love big festival style events pride or otherwise, for those reasons. But you don't have to fully go rural or red state, just getting outside major cities - our small city Pride events are much more homegrown. (And aren't particularly conservative like Colorado Springs, though more so than Chicago).
I do get the appeal though, if I'd have been within driving range I'd have wanted to go to this one too. It brings the activism back, not just the party.
I think Pride ends up being significantly more important to people who otherwise live in places where acceptance isn't the norm or where there's potential for protest. I'm similarly skipping my city's pride march (which is inexplicably in July here) to hang out with queer friends, but we live in a super queer city. It can be a lot more meaningful to march in solidarity with other queer people and allies when you live somewhere like Idaho or Florida.
Mirror: https://archive.is/6aVoa
It was a gift link, lmk if it's not showing up that way now and I'll add a new one
It didn't work for me earlier, that's why I converted it back to the original link.
The original gifted link actually does work. It does get past the paywall... but unfortunately WaPo seems to have changed their article sharing policies, and now in order for anyone to read the "gifted" article they need to create or log into an account first to view it. That's what the nag screen blocking the article is for:
I don't know when WaPo started doing that, but that is super annoying. :/
cc: @DefinitelyNotAFae
Bummer! Archive links to the fore again it seems.
Ah, great. We love it.
Let me toss one here as a backup. Not sure the restrictions on those links or how long before they time out.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VZMX3R
This one works! Washington Post gifted links last for 14 days.
Weirdly, https://wapo.st/3VZMX3R doesn't work for me at all. The original https://wapo.st/3VD3wlN one does, but as I said below it has an account nag screen blocking it. WTF?
I've switched back to the original gift link in that case, because both work for me and only one your side.
That full link works. I'm still blocked by an account creation requirement nag screen, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. I think I'll still personally stick to archive mirrors though. ;)
Got it! Ty, not sure why that one broke but it wasn't mine originally