Saturday, June 25th, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Harlem Pride Day, Marcus Garvey Park at Madison and 122nd Street. The 2nd Annual Harlem Pride event will be at Marcus Garvey Park and celebrates the LGBT community uptown. Last years event at West 119th Street did not raise any eyebrows but having it in the park has caused quite a stir this year with a few folks:
LINK. Check out the Harlem Pride site for a full list of this weekend's Pride happenings which includes family bowling at Harlem Lanes on Sunday:
www.HarlemPride.org. Photo of Harlem Pride 2010 via Harlem Pride
Actually it DID raise a few eyebrows because it was bundled in with our 119th Street Family Fun Day Annual Block Party and no one was given a heads up that we would be sharing the block party permit. So on the one hand you had queens doing up their makeup in the house next to mine and daddy’s little princesses looking for the bouncy house at the same time. It got the slightest bit territorial toward barbeque time.
ReplyDeleteOh no, homosexuals runing a muck in the park. Just replace gay with black in the bigotry and then people would be calling a foul. You can say it's not the same but I am homosexual and it sucks to be discriminated against.
ReplyDeletePride is what they call gay parades and festivals all around the world. Sydney Pride, Pride in the Pines, Those just happen to be the only pride festivals I know but still. I guess they should have consulted some harlem biggots before naming it
what I find sad is that these very bigoted pastors certainly have parishioners who have children or siblings who are gay and these words must be so especially hurtful.
ReplyDeleteBut concentrate on the positive, celebrate New York State’s vote and enjoy Harlem Pride.
Harlem old guard cannot be isolationist and intolerant, Harlem is now squarely part of Manhattan which is home to people of all orientation and colors, including white. I believe it is a good thing for children to be exposed to diversity in all walks of life, it can only teach them tolerance.
ReplyDeleteA lot less generalization and conclusion-jumping would seem to be in order, both for the "journalists" who wrote the original story and those posters who often show up here with their own biases about Harlem's longterm residents. I haven't heard one word of protest about this event from anyone in the neighborhood. Religious bias against homosexuality- as wrong as I believe it is- is certainly not limited to the black churches of Harlem.
ReplyDeleteValgb, in my personal experience and to my dismay, Harlem has an unacceptably high level of intolerance and bias, not just towards members of the lgbt community, but also towards people of other colors, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. This is certainly not true all peoples of Harlem, but unfortunately true of a considerable number.
ReplyDeleteI think we should all be engaged in the effort to rid ourselves of intolerance and bias, which certainly exist in Harlem as well as the rest of New York and the country. I also think we may tend to experience what we believe to be true.
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