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Gay Activists to boycott gay-rights group dinner

by Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle

As gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people prepare to celebrate gay pride in San Francisco this weekend, many of them also are organizing a boycott and protest of the country's largest gay rights organization.

Activists plan to be on the streets during the festivities to inform people of the boycott and protest of the Human Rights Campaign's annual fundraising dinner in San Francisco next month, a major event that raises tens of thousands of dollars for the organization.

Similar actions took place at fundraising dinners in Philadelphia and New York City earlier this year.

The controversy stems from the Human Rights Campaign's decision last fall to support a bill in Congress that would bar employers from firing a person because of his or her sexual orientation. The bill, which passed the House but has stalled in the Senate, did not include the same protections for transgender people. More than 370 gay rights organizations opposed the bill for that reason.

Theresa Sparks, who is president of the San Francisco Police Commission and is transgender, said she returned an award she received from the Human Rights Campaign.

Sparks, who attended the news conference with Dufty and Ammiano, noted the contributions of transgender people to the LGBT movement. The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York that sparked the modern LGBT rights movement were promulgated by transgender people, she said.

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Philly Pride Presents the 20th Annual LGBT Pride Parade & Festival

ADVISORY, May 21, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) --

WHEN: Sunday June 8
12:00 Noon-6:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Parade begins at 13th & Locust Streets and proceeds east on Market Street, past a Judges Reviewing Stand at Independence Hall. The parade continues East over Market Street up the ramp until it reaches the Chestnut Street entrance for Great Plaza at Penn's Landing.
Great Plaza at Penn's Landing Columbus Boulevard, from Market to Walnut Street.

WHAT: Event includes main stage entertainment, Dance Area, Family Zone, Pet Zone, Health Area, and a variety of food and beverages. Presented by Philly Pride Presents, there is a
$10 admission. Over 90 different organizations networking and doing outreach and over 40 different merchants selling their craft or product.

BACKGROUND: PHILLY PRIDE PRESENTS, Inc. (PPP) is a group of volunteer coordinators under the leadership of an Executive Director and Senior Advisor which organizes "PrideDay" in June, and "OutFest" in October. These are the only two events during which the Philadelphia Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community joins together and celebrates
as a whole.

The first official Pride Parade was organized in an impromptu fashion at the end of the 1980s and was intended to coincide with rally planned by the Lesbian and Gay Task Force at Love Park. It was so successful that community members met and started an organization (Lesbian & Gay Pride of the Delaware Valley, Inc.) whose goal was to produce a parade and festival at Penn's Landing each year to continue the community outreach and visibility that was achieved with that one rally. That organization evolved into what we know today as Philly Pride Presents and that first rally grew into the largest celebration of LGBT pride in the region, now attracting over 25,000 people each year.

For more information about Philly Pride Presents or Pride Day, please visit www.phillypride.org

CONTACT: Philly Pride Presents
215-875-9288
phillygaypride@aol.com
1315 Spruce Street / Suite 227
Philadelphia, PA 19107