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The weather is looking to be beautiful, just like all the shiny, happy people at Pride Fest.
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A 16 year old high school student who was one of the stabbing victims at the recent Jerusalem Pride parade has died from her injuries, reports Haaretz:
Police confirmed that the suspected stabber is Yishai Schlissel, a Haredi man from Modiin Ilit who stabbed three participants in the 2005 Gay Pride march. He was recently released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence.
Banki was a high-school student from Jerusalem, studying at the Hebrew University High School. She took part in Thursday’s parade to show solidarity with her LGBT friends. She is survived by her parents and three siblings; her family decided to donate her organs.
In a statement issued Sunday, her family said: “Our magical Shira was murdered because she was a happy 16-year-old – full of life and love – who came to express her support for her friends’ rights to live as they choose. For no good reason and because of evil, stupidity and negligence, the life of our beautiful flower was cut short. Bad things happen to good people, and a very bad thing happened to our amazing girl. The family expresses hope for a less hatred and more tolerance.” The family requests the public respect their privacy as they grieve.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, an ultra-Orthodox man has been arrested for stabbing six people taking part in the Jerusalem gay pride parade today.
The suspect in Thursday’s stabbing attack, Yishai Shlissel, is the same man who perpetrated a similar stabbing attack at the 2005 Jerusalem gay pride parade. He was recently released from prison after having been convicted of stabbing three people during the parade ten years ago.
Six people were wounded in the incident that took place on the corners of Sokolov and Keren Hayesod streets in the capital.
Paramedics were treating two people in serious condition, one in moderate condition and three people who were lightly injured. All of the victims were in their thirties, according to MDA.
Thousands of people were taking part in the annual pride parade in the capital when the attack occurred.
“I saw an ultra-Orthodox youth stabbing everyone in his way,” said Shai Aviyor, a witness interviewed on Israel’s Channel 2 television.
“We heard people screaming, everyone ran for cover, and there were bloodied people on the ground,” Aviyor said.
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Out Magazine is reporting that over 26 million Facebookers used the company’s filter to change their profile pictures to the LGBT pride rainbow in celebrating Pride Month and the historic SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage.
Celebrities, athletes, gay, straight, transgender…. across many spectrums folks made Facebook a veritable rainbow this weekend.
Did you change your pic?
Yesterday, Singapore celebrated the 7th Annual Pink Dot gay rights rally in Hong Lim Park.
Celebrating the capacity for love which lives within Singapore as well as all Singaporeans, Pink Dot aims to help build a kinder and more inclusive Singapore.
Paerin Choa, spokesman for the event, spoke of the challenges the LGBT community has recently encountered, including a court decision to uphold a law criminalizing sexual acts between men. The government of Singapore continues to insist that Singapore society is conservative, and not ready to embrace full LGBT rights.
As night fell, per tradition, the record setting 28,000 attendees lit their pink torches to form an enormous, living pink dot in a show of solidarity and love.
The Pink Dot campaign’s annual video reflected on the progress the LGBT community has made in Singapore. Always touching.
The hunky men Andrew Christian underwear models share their coming out stories in celebration of Pride Month.
Not your usual AC video.
And yeah, the views aren’t so bad, either.
From AndrewChristian.com:
For this year, we decided to share our own stories of how we came to have so much Pride. The road may not always be easy but it is always worth while to come out, be free, and find the love in the world.
Hopefully by sharing our stories we are able to further inspire others and continue to help, as the song says, change the world.
Hillary Clinton online store now offers a campaign t-shirt quoting Hillary’s terrific speech at the United Nation in honor of 2011 International Human Rights Day, where she declared “being LGBT does not make you less human….[G]ay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.”
Good on Hillary for reminding the world that she’s believed in LGBT rights for a long time.
Check out the LGBTQ Vee on her website.
On Monday, Hillary also tweeted her firm support of Pride Month:
Happy Pride Month—hoping this June is one for the history books. -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2015
Another Fortune 500 company joins the Pride Month celebrations as Converse (owned by Nike, the number one sportswear company in the world) announces the Converse Pride Collection.
From Converse:
The Converse Pride Collection is honored to join the LGBT movement.
Any crusade that hits the streets as loud and passionate as this one definitely needs sneakers to fit the occasion. We happily abide.
The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Pride hi-tops are adorned with stylish patterns and every color of the rainbow. Each color represents a special meaning to the community.
Each step we take brings us closer to universal tolerance and equality.