connextions magazine: shine up & out pride extra 2015
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The Pride Extra 2015 Special Issue, highlights PRIDE Festivals from around the world. What would A World Without Pride & A World Without Color look like? This photo essay answers that question in honor of the US Supreme Court's verdict making Marriage Equality the law of the land. HAPPY PRIDE!TRANSCRIPT
SHINE UP & OUTPRIDE EXTRA 2015
A WORLD WITHOUT PRIDEA WORLD WITHOUT COLOR
PRIDE INSERT 2015
ONE’S GREATNESS LIES IN ONE’S HEARTBy: Manny Velasquez-Paredes, Xioger Sandoval & JJ Vega
This photo editorial aims to show what a colorless world would be like. Our world is not black and white, most issues are not black and white. “Equality” should be a black and white issue - we either HAVE EQUALITY or WE DO NOT HAVE EQUALITY - that’s it. It really is that simple!
At this moment in time, we still DO NOT HAVE EQUALITY. The LGBT community is not treated equally, by laws and people, the same way that our heterosexual brothers and sisters are treated. So, if we take the topic of EQUALITY as a black and white issue, anyone with any degree of intelligence can clearly see how UNequal we are and this is why we have “PRIDE” Festivals accross the globe.
The LGBT community does not celebrate PRIDE because, we are too full of ourselves, it’s not an excuse to drink and party, although some people do.
On Saturday June 28, 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village erupted and a group of LGBT patrons who were there, decided to fight back. Perhaps not real-izing at the time, their fight was a wake-up call for our community to regain our rights as human beings, to be able to gather and fight for the right to be treated as equals. And this was the beginning of PRIDE.
The first PRIDE march took place a few months later, on November 2, 1969 in New York City. This would become an annual reminder to be more relevant, to be more open, to reach a greater num-ber of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of our larger struggles.
PRIDE started.
But what would a world without PRIDE look like? It would look unfin-ished. It would be a world full of deception, fears, depression, and hostility because PRIDE means acceptance, means to be happy to be who you are, you are no longer in hiding, no longer afraid someone can out you, you are now sharing your true self with oth-ers and therefore, part of the world and part of the human race.
UPDATE: This essay was originally published in the Summer Issue #18 of Connextions Magazine, published in May 2015. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that Marriage Equality is now the law of the land. Pictures provided by Manny Velasquez-Paredes, Shelly Straub & Lucia Camarda.
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CONTRIBUTORS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Manny Velasquez-Paredes
CREATIVE DIRECTORXioger Sandoval
FEATURED WRITERDavid Duran
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ross Christianson
DimmiDavid PerryBryan Pirolli
JJ VegaManny Velasquez-Paredes
Sarah Stanley-Evan
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2015 PRIDE FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
2015 PRIDE FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLDJUNE 2015
Gay Pride Houston, Texas 19 - 28 Pride Toronto, Canada 19 - 28
Skeive Dager, Oslo, Norway 19 - 28 Vienna Gay Pride, Vienna, Austria 20
Gay Pride Fest Denver, Colorado 20 - 21 Stadtfest Berlin, Germany 20 - 21 NYC Gay Pride, New York 21 - 28
Chicago Pride, Illinois 20 - 28 Gay Pride London, UK 23 - 28
Gay Pride Week / CSD Berlin, Germany 25 - 28 Gay Pride Barcelona, Spain 26 - 28
Gay Pride Dublin, Ireland 27 Gay Pride Paris, France 27
San Francisco Pride, California 27 - 28 Seattle Pride, Washington 27 - 28
Twin Cities Pride, Minneapolis, Minnesota 27 - 28
JULY 2015
1 - 5 Orgullo Madrid, Spain 3 - 5 Cologne Gay Pride, Germany 4 - 12 CSD Munich, Germany11 - 19 Bear Week, Provincetown, Massachusetts17 - 18 San Diego Pride, California17 - 19 CSD Frankfurt, Germany17 - 26 CSD Stuttgart, Germany20 Roze Maandag, Tilburg, Netherlands
24 Jul - 2 Aug Hamburg Pride, Germany25 Jul - 2 Aug Amsterdam Gay Pride, Netherlands25 Jul - 2 Aug Vancouver Gay Pride, Canada27 Jul - 1 Aug Stockholm Gay Pride, Sweden
AUGUST 2015
Brighton Gay Pride, UK 1 - 2 Antwerp Pride, Belgium 3 - 9
Reykjavik Gay Pride, Iceland 4 - 9 Circuit Festival, Barcelona, Spain 5 - 16
Gay Pride Copenhagen, Denmark 13 - 16 Schwules Strassenfest, Munich, Germany 15
Manchester Gay Pride, UK 28 - 31
Calgary Gay Pride, Canada 28 Aug - 7 Sep
SEPTEMBER 2015
Southern Decadence, New Orleans, Louisiana 2 - 7 International Bears Week, Sitges, Spain 4 - 13
Benidorm Gay Pride, Spain 7 - 13 Gay Days Las Vegas, Nevada 8 - 14
Oakland Gay Pride, San Francisco, California 13 Las Vegas Pride, Nevada 18 - 19
Dallas Gay Pride, Texas 20
Curaçao Gay Pride, Curaçao 30 Sep - 4 Oct
OCTOBER 2015
Atlanta Pride, Georgia 10 - 11 Outfest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11
Amsterdam Leather Pride, Netherlands 22 - 26
NOVEMBER 2015
Greater Palm Springs Pride, California 6 - 8
(Confirmed dates by time of publishing)
