She and the city government have been honing in on youth programs as summer progresses, including expanded programming at the Winooski Memorial Library and scholarship funds to subsidize passes at the newly opened Myers Memorial Pool. Gordon said she’s been keeping busy since assuming her new job in May. That should be our goal,” Gordon said in an interview Friday. “I keep telling people, we should focus on what we want our Vermont communities to look like 20 years from now. To her, the flag represents a commitment to follow through with other measures intended to make the city inclusive for all. Yasamin Gordon, Winooski’s first director of equity, was also at Rotary Park for the flag-raising. “You can’t underestimate the power of symbols to welcome people,” Childress said. For the increasing number of young people identifying somewhere on the spectrum of sexual orientation, she said, the flag will “speak volumes.” The Black Lives Matter flag, raised in August, was flying, as were the state flag and the Canadian flag - but nothing to recognize LGBTQ support.Ĭhildress, who works as a literacy coach at Stowe Middle and High Schools, asked City Councilor Oakleaf to bring the issue to the rest of the council.Ĭhildress also runs the schools’ Gay Student Alliance, which she helped found last year before the pandemic. Jenn Childress, who has lived in the city for seven years, was attending a Winooski Wednesdays event in early June when she noticed the flag wasn’t atop the poles in Rotary Park.
#BOSTON GAY PRIDE FLAG RAISING FREE#
“We cannot be free until we are all free.”īefore the flag was raised Monday, a local resident had questioned its absence during a Winooski City Council meeting earlier this month. Up goes the flag, as the public officials clap their hands.“Our liberation is tied within one another,” Small said. We're not sure what kind of solidarity they have in mind. What kind of guy would wear a shirt like this around town?Ī man dressed as a woman (holding umbrella).Ĭounter-demonstration? We found out these are the transsexual activists protesting the military theme of "Pride Week." What they don't understand is that "military" is just a fetish, not a sign of pro-Iraq war! The chairman of the Commission on Mass.Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth talked about (what else?) people getting AIDS. This guy talked about about getting more homosexual programs into the schools. Mayor Menino's official liaison to the "GLBT Community". Paying their respects to perversion: On the stage are Boston City Councilors Michael Ross (left), Felix Arroyo, Michael Flaherty, and others. Studds was nationally known for seducing a teenage boy into a homosexual relationship. It was announced that the "honorary Grand Marshall" of the "Gay Pride Parade" this year is the late Gerry Studds. Big on pushing transgenderism on children.Īn interested (and interesting) crowd gathered in front of the podium. Right behind the podium (with the official city seal) banner for Greater Boston PFLAG, which hosts an annual transgender conference ("Transcending Boundaries") promoting sexual sadism and polyamory (group sex). And he tops off the week by marching in the "gay pride parade" the following Saturday.
Every June, he raises the rainbow flag over Boston City Hall and keep it there for an entire week to rub it in, and embarrass us all in front of all the tourists who come to Boston at this time of year. It's not enough that every May the mayor allows Boston City Hall to be used for a perversion-filled "transgender prom" for kids and gay activists. The Founding Fathers who fought the British for freedom in Boston would probably shoot themselves if they saw this. (3) A well-known child molester was named as the official “honorary parade marshall” – the late Gerry Studds. (2) Another speech was about the homosexual movement getting into the public schools. (1) One of the speeches was about sexually transmitted disease and the importance of being tested. The ceremony was fairly typical for a homosexual event. Boston Mayor insults citizens by raising ‘gay flag” over City Hall – in honor of “Gay Pride Week.” However, mayor declines to show up personally, knowing video cameras will be there!īOSTON (JUNE 1, 2007) Boston Mayor Thomas Menino celebrated the beginning of "Gay Pride Week" by sponsoring an elaborate ceremony, complete with public officials, and having the homosexual "rainbow flag" fly over City Hall for the entire week. Along with the American Flag and the Massachusetts