5 Facts About the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
While it’s had some mishaps along the way, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has still managed to go on almost every year for nearly a century.
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
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While it’s had some mishaps along the way, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has still managed to go on almost every year for nearly a century.
A bomb in Jerusalem exploded Friday near the route of this year's gay pride parade, injuring a worker near the West Bank separation fence.
A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena, La., is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block, and requiring the posting of a bond. The Nationalist Movement filed the federal lawsuit December 14 and is seeking a temporary restraining order to keep the town from interfering with the Learned, Miss.-based group's Jena Justice Day rally. Group officials claim the town's rules violate their 14th Amendment rights to due process. The planned January 21 march is in response to the thousands who rallied on September 20 in Jena in support of six black teens who have become known as the ''Jena 6,'' and against what they claimed was disproportionately harsh treatment of blacks by prosecutors.
Thousands of police deployed across Jerusalem on Thursday to head off any violence at a gay pride march that has sparked riots by ultra-Orthodox Jews and denunciations by Muslim and Christian leaders.
Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade is a little like Pride, a Harlem Drag Ball and the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade all rolled into one.
About a dozen people sat in the middle of the Boston Pride parade route to protest the lack of action on issues affecting trans and LGBT people of color.
Undeterred by recent setbacks in the push to legalize same-sex marriage, tens of thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender attendees marched in gay pride parades Sunday in San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, Atlanta, and other cities nationwide.
Two armed people were taken into custody, police say.
Gay and lesbian protesters held up signs along the parade route, angered by the parade committee's continued refusal to allow gay and lesbian groups to march under their own banners.
A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in bridal veils, wedding gowns, and leather lent a matrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelers celebrated their newfound freedom to marry. The riders tossed bouquets as they led the city's 38th annual gay pride parade down Market Street. Some of the motorcycles were adorned with signs that read ''Just Married.'' Huge crowds lined the route as city tourism officials predicted the largest turnout yet for the parade, which typically draws tens of thousands.
Under heavy police guard, gay activists marched in a gay pride parade in downtown Jerusalem on Thursday, sparking a noisy counterdemonstration by ultra-Orthodox Jews and denunciations by Muslim and Christian leaders. There were no incidents of violence during the brief event.