Gawker: gay pride

Baruch Atta Boy!

Richard Lawson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:37:00 EDT

[A man marches, along with 2,000 other Israelis, in the Jerusalem gay pride parade today; image via AP]

Search for "gay" and Google will show its pride

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:40:00 EDT

With gay marriages legalized in California, Google has its rainbow flag out. Google search for the term "gay" and see for yourself (you have to be logged out of your Google account, a tipster tells us). Google's always been plenty gay-friendly, but it's got nothing on big purple. Last October, a brand survey revealed that lesbians and gays may prefer Yahoo 2-to-1. Despite Google wrangling George "Sulu" Takei for the company's Pride parade float the Yahoo's cheesy 2007 appeal for gay users to go ahead and "fabu-lize" their online avatars.

Brad From Bay Ridge Proposes "Bridge And Tunnel Parade"

Emily Gould — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:35:46 EDT

If you were in any part of Manhattan or, really, the world yesterday, you probably had some sort of encounter with the rainbow-colored vomit puddles of the Gay Pride parade. A dude named Brad from Bay Ridge was so inconvenienced by this event that he took to his keyboard, decrying the gays and their filthy, bus-delaying ways. We couldn't help but kind of see his point (sic throughout, obvs). "So today i had some errands to run in the city," he begins. " I hop on the bus as usual and expect to be in the lower east side within a half hour. Not today. Today turned out to be the gay pride parade. can someone explain to me how you can shut down half of the biggest city in this nation for a parade to celebrate being gay ? new york city is composed of nearly 6 million people over half of them being women. THE WOMEN OF NYC have been sucking dick for FARRRR longer than any gay man. If anyone should be celebrated and thanked for there efforts it is these woman." We like where you're going with this!

"While were at it i propose a sexual harassment parade where we can parade these afore-mentioned woman from Harlem (pssst pssst whats good shorty pssst psst) to spanish harlem (yo ma yo ma come here mami..) all the way down to mulberry street ( aeee ohhhhh how youuu doin) ....... fuck it ...maybe a bridge and tunnel parade where we can shut down the lincoln, holland, midtown and brooklyn battery tunnels as well as well as the GWB, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridge and just pump house music all day and night long through the city where everyone with spiky hair big muscles and no sleeves (and the women who love them) can march and fist pump through the city (dont worry ill be the grand marshall) and don't think i forgot about you statin island we are going to turn the s.i ferry into one big party boat booze cruise with jp, Loui Devito and johnny vicious spinning your favorite hard house sound factory classics.

and if anyone has been offended by this little rant we are going to have a special parade for you. The Overly Politically correct cry baby bitch and moan parade. Its going to convene on the great lawn in central park and kick off with an old fashion stoning."

Heh. We'll be there!

A gay venture capitalist ties the knot

wagger1 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:56:25 EDT

The Valley styles itself as gay-friendly. But how many queer venture capitalists can you think of? Here's a sign, in the month of gay pride, of change in the wind: NEA's Patrick Chung recently held a commitment ceremony with partner Matthew Burt, a church choir director. After the jump, more on Chung and Burt's Valley links, and a photo of the wedding party.Following a honeymoon in what Chung describes as "the Far East," the couple will be hard to ignore in Sand Hill society. Chung and Burt, known for throwing the occasional croquet party, are well-connected. Burt directs music at Christ Episcopal Church in Portola Valley, a hotbed of venture capitalists. Chung is on the board of wireless startup Loopt and is also involved with the NEA-backed 23andMe. 23andMe, of course, is the biotech startup founded by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin. As a wedding gift, Castro Confidential recommends his-and-his iPhones. We suspect Brin, at least, can afford them.

Altoids' virtual gay pride advertisement

Tim Faulkner — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:38:56 EDT

Exploiting two marketing trends in one go, Altoids, maker of curiously strong mints, is curiously sponsoring virtual gay pride month in Linden Lab's Second Life along with the obligatory parades and accoutrement. In an apparent attempt to one up Yahoo's gay avatars, the Altoid "parade" is more gay avatars (a pirate and Uncle Sam apparently) standing around amidst gay pride flags and Altoids' ads with little resemblance to the crowds, excesses, and exposure of a real world pride parade. In fact, this is an instance where griefers add more realism than Altoid marketers forced to masquerade as "Pimp" trannies. What's a virtual gay pride parade without flying penises?