Pride Parade and Block party for Baltimore's, MD gay pride weekend. Held at Charles and Eager Streets in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of downtown Baltimore; June 20, 2009 - 3:45-10:30pm.

Lots of lesbians, drag queens, drag kings, transgenders, bis and their straight friends celebrating pride day between Grand Central and Club Hippo. Plus a high-heel race.

Featured in this video are:
Drag-for-a-Day Contestants

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Capital Pride 2009: Washington, D.C. gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parade and festival.

Featuring Martha Wash singing Tony Moran's Keep Your Body Workin' at the annual party and celebration which was held Saturday-Sunday, June13-14, 2009.

Tens of thousands of people attended the GLBT events. The Parade marched through Dupont Circle, 17th Street, and P Street, and the Festival took place on Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets NW.

Some of the participants seen in this video include:

Singer Martha Wash,
Actress Valerie Harper,
Supermodel RuPaul,
DC Mayor Adrian Fenty,
DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton,
Frank Kameny,
Lilli Vincenz,
The DC Cowboys,
DC's Different Drummers,
Results the Gym,
Rainbow Families DC,
The Washington Opera,
Gay Men's Chorus of Washington,
DC Police Department,
Whitman-Walker Clinic,
DC Jewish Community Center,
Phase One,
Ziegfelds / Secrets,
DC Aquatic Club,
Dykes on Bikes,
homoto,
Capital Area Rainbowlers,
Nuwear,
Food and Friends,
The Academy of Washington,
Duplex Diner,
Freddie's Beach Bar,
Capital Tennis Association,
SMYAL,
The Center for GLBT DC,
Answer Coalition,
ACLU,
Ebone Bell,
Lin Hong,
Austin Allan,
Brian Wilson,
Adam Ebbin,
Donna Payne,
David Catania,
Vincent Gray,
Jay Fisette,
Muriel Brown,
Jim Graham,
Kwame Brown,
Phil Pannel,
Phil Mendelson,
Jack Evans,
Tommy Wells,
Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps Band,
PFLAG,
Ganymede Arts,
Dignity/Washington,
Riverside Baptist Church,
Ella Fitzgerald,
some adorable children,
a bunch of dogs,
the hard partying staff of Metro Weekly,
and many other participants and attendees.

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RuPaul (Supermodel of the World) appearing at Capital Pride 2009 in Washington, D.C. on June 14, 2009. The annual festival was held in front of the US Capitol building on Pennsylvania Avenue at 3rd Street. Many thousands of GLBT visitors attended the the event.

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Capital Pride Festival in Washington, DC on Sunday, June 14, 2009.

She speaks about the passage of a City Council vote to recognize same-sex marriages for gay and lesbian couples who have been performed legally in other states, hate crimes legislation, and the possibility of becoming Washington, DC's first and only voting member of Congress.

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Rally for same-sex marriage recognition in Washington, DC, and protest of California Supreme Court ruling to uphold legality of Proposition 8 on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Held in Dupont Circle.

Speakers include:
Kellan Baker (Rally Organizer)
Dr. Dana Beyer
CourageCampaign.org
Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks (Inner Light Ministries, DC)
Michael Crawford (of DCForMarriage)
Latifa Lyles (of National Organization for Women / NOW)
Rev. Lori McPherson (Metropolitan Community Church / MCC DC)
Phil Mendelson (DC City Councilmember at Large)
Peggy Sue
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Bishop Harry Jackson, of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, held a small rally for his followers (at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC) to protest the unanimous vote by the City Council to recognize same-sex marriages that have been legally performed in other states.

Several other preachers join them and repeatedly call gay marriages a perversion and closely associate gay sex and gay relationships with evil, immoral behavior such as incest and pedophilia. Numerous times Jackson and others say that same-sex marriage has nothing to do with civil rights, and that equating interracial marriage and the civil rights struggle of blacks is wrong and offensive.

This video features Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, telling the crowd that he discusses gay marriage with his children at the dinner table, and purposefully confuses same-sex marriage with the separate debate over the use of public bathrooms by pre-operative transgenders people.

Several Hispanic and one Asian preacher show up briefly to declare marriage as between one man and a woman and that they will stand with Jackson's mostly African-American church at the City Council meeting on May 5, because the Council's expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples is offensive and against their interpretation of Jesus' wishes and the Bible.

One preacher states that the state has no business in marriage. Another stutters that gay sex needs to be clearly explained to everyone's children because the though makes everyone sick to their stomach. "Children," "boys," and "girls" are repeatedly brought into these preacher's political speeches at the rally. They state that children need to be protected from the school systems because, as they claim, the children are being taught about gay marriage, and more specifically using the books "Heather Has Two Mommies" and "King and King" to do so.

Please also see Part 1 of this video to witness the use of "We Shall Overcome" as the anthem against gay marriage, Marion Barry chanting "No Same-Sex Marriage in DC," and other truly stunning statements.

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Bishop Harry Jackson, of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, held a small rally for his followers (at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC) to protest the unanimous vote by the City Council to recognize same-sex marriages that have been legally performed in other states.

Current City Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry states here that he is united with the churches against gay marriages, chanting, "No Same-Sex Marriage in DC." He calls himself a moral politician and says that he is for civil unions. His opposition to this bill is surprising to many because he is reported to have co-sponsored the very bill that he is now stating that he is opposed to.

Several other preachers join them and repeatedly call gay marriages a perversion and closely associate gay sex and gay relationships with evil, immoral behavior such as incest and pedophilia. Numerous times Jackson and others say that same-sex marriage has nothing to do with civil rights, and that equating interracial marriage and the civil rights struggle of blacks is wrong and offensive.

Tony Perkins and others appear in Part 2 of this video along with a stunning prayer service directed at the building that houses the City Council.

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The March for Equal Rights (2nd half). Despite the cold rain, this hastily-organized, grassroots march and post-rally successfully drew thousands of Washington, DC area gay men, lesbians and allies to the National Mall. They wanted to voice their support for the right to legal same-sex marriages, and against the passage of California's Proposition 8 which effectively repealed the new, state-recognized unions. A Join the Impact event.

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The March for Equal Rights (1st half). This hastily-organized, grassroots pre-rally & march successfully drew thousands of Washington, DC area gay men, lesbians and allies to the National Mall. They wanted to voice their support for the right to legal same-sex marriages, and against the passage of California's Proposition 8 which effectively repealed the new, state-recognized unions. A Join the Impact event.

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The famous annual 17th Street High Heel Race of Washington featuring Halloween drag queens from the heart of the DC gay community. Recorded by Metro Weekly magazine in the Dupont Circle area of the Northwest quadrant of the District of Colubmia on October 26, 2008, 7:45pm-9:15pm. Includes impersonations of Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, Joe the Plumber, Cher, the Wizard of Oz, the Ambiguously Gay Duo, Victoria's Secret models, Cruella de Ville, the Texas polygamous Mormon ranch mothers, and the Washington Monument.

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One of several promos for Metro Weekly magazine playing at the Reel Affirmations 18 film festival in Washington, DC.

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One of several promos for Metro Weekly magazine playing at the Reel Affirmations 18 film festival in Washington, DC.

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