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In 1990 the grand marshal of the LA Gay Pride Parade was an 82 year old retired straight female professor. Her research in the 50s led to homosexuality no longer being considered a mental illness in the United States.

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There was a controversy with Tinky-Winky from the show 'Teletubbies', with critics stating he was a symbol for gay pride. Ken Viselman of Itsy-Bitsy Entertainment commented, that: "He's not gay. He's not straight. He's just a character in a children's series."

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1. The pink triangle, rendered in hot pink as a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally rendered in pink and used pointed downward on a Nazi concentration camp badge to denote homosexual men.

2. The high five was invented by an openly gay athlete, and was a symbol of gay pride and identification.

3. A nonprofit organization purchased a house across from the Westboro Baptist Church and painted it with colors of the gay pride flag as part of an equality campaign.

4. In Rocky Horror Picture Show the red triangle Dr. Frank ‘n’ Furter wears over his heart was used by the Nazis in concentration camps to denote that the wearer was a gay man, but it was pointing downward. He wore it pointing upward, which is often used as a symbol of gay pride....

5. The Pink Triangle, a symbol for gay pride, was originally used to denote homosexuals in concentration camps. Because the symbol also identified other “sexual undesirables,” gay men were often left imprisoned when Allied troops liberated others from the camps.

6. The Pink Triangle, a symbol for gay pride, was originally used to denote homosexuals in concentration camps. Because the symbol also identified other “sexual undesirables,” gay men were often left imprisoned when Allied troops liberated others from the camps.

7. Gilbert Baker, the designer of the rainbow gay-pride flag, would often perform as a drag queen using the name "Busty Ross"

8. The high five was accidentally invented by Glenn Burke, the first and only active MLB player to come out as gay. After he quit baseball the high five became a symbol of gay pride and identification in San Francisco's Castro district

9. A Seattle man bought a statue of Lenin from a scrap yard Czechoslovakia in 1993. He mortgaged his house to bring it to Seattle, but before it could be erected, he died in an accident. It now stands in the Fremont District of Seattle, and is dressed in drag during Gay Pride Week. It's for sale.

10. São Paulo-Brazil is home of the largest Italian, Japanese and Arab diaspora in the world and also home of the largest gay pride parade.

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Only two widely used flags are designed to be flown upside down: The Flag of the Philippines (to indicate if the country is at peace or war) and the Gay pride flag (because the man who created it wanted to say orientation doesn't matter).

Taiwan holds Asia’s largest gay pride parade as the island nation legalises same-sex marriage. - source

The gay pride flag was initially supposed to have 8 stripes of color, but hot pink wasn't as available as the other colors, and indigo was then also dropped to bring it to an even number. Pink would have symbolized sex, and indigo would have symbolized harmony. - source

Gay Pride events are held annually throughout the world toward the end of June to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Gilbert Baker, the creator of the gay pride flag, described himself as "gay Betsy Ross" - source

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CNN once mistook a flag full of dildos and butt plugs at a Gay Pride parade in London for the ISIS flag

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About the Gay movement in London that supported miners that were striking in 1984/5 especially the miners from wales via the movie Pride

Marie Osmond has a lesbian daughter and was named Grand Marshal at the Ogden Gay Pride Parade.

The Westboro Baptist Church has good relations with their LGBT neighbours. When their gay pride flag was stolen and placed in WBC's yard it was returned with note saying 'A criminal has taken your flags and put them in our yard. We have put them in your mailbox. We'd like to return them to you'

Gay Pride marches in June commemorate a raid at an illegal Mafia-owned Greenwich Village gay bar, a day after Judy Garland's funeral and three weeks before the first manned moon landing in 1969.

Reykjavik Pride, the Gay Pride Parade in the capitol of Iceland, attracts 90-100,000 people, or over 1/4 the population of Iceland.