The Street Corner Of Downtown Great Falls, Montana, Waiting For The Annual Big Sky Pride Parade

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a non-for profit organisation that organises the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade annually. The parade aims to “raise the visibility of the lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities”. This mission is achieved by the organisation through allowing individuals to use the event to promote pride in sexuality as well as sending a wider message of diversity and acceptance. Though the event is considered now considered a mainstream festival and includes over 10000 participants, it originally began as a political protest in 1978 where participants marched in show of support to the National Homosexual conference as well as San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day. During this event participants were violently reprimanded by the police. During the months

The man said, “I was following you around, because we didn’t know where we were going. We thought you looked like you knew where you were going. I didn’t mean to scare. Every time I started to approach you to ask you for help, you ran away.”

“The movement has been so successful that LGBTQ+ members that had once lived on the streets, now are professors and doctors.” (cbsnews.com) The Stonewall Riots paved the way for the majority of LGBTQ+ rights events. For example, the first ever, “Pride Parade,” a parade that takes place every year, all over the world, to commemorate the actions of activists, to celebrate differences, and to express pride and culture. Often times these parades often also serve as demonstrations to protest for rights such as same-sex marriage. These events still happen to this day, and each year these parades grow and become more of a symbol for the perseverance and passion of the LGBTQ+ community.

The short essay “great falls is written by Richard Ford in 1944. The story is not a happy story with a happy ending that a lot of stories has .The story is sad and has conflict in it that many may face in the real world. The mother in the story says “Nobody dies of a broken heart.” This gives the tone of what the story is about. The occasions of the story play out between the mother and father, yet are inactively seen by the fundamental character, their child Jackie. The mother and father relationship is the main part of the short story.

"Young lady". His voice was deep and scratchy. "Sorry sir, I thought you could use a hug". I said then left. "Now wait". I started speed walking away from him. He was probably there to buy a t.v. Whoops, now he couldn't because he had no money.

Ray Comfort is a long-time evangelist who has employed many methods to spread the gospel. He’s well known in many if not most Christian communities. He’s produced several films and is involved with Living Waters, a Christian organization that creates films, devotionals and such. Comfort is mostly known for his videos of street evangelism, where he approaches individuals and asks them questions that lead back to a conversation about heaven and where the individual being interviewed, will spend eternity. These videos are what will be discussed in this essay, specifically Comforts use of the Rhetorical Opportunity in the film titled “180”. It is a documentary style film in which he likens abortion to the Holocaust and leads people to change their views on it and point them to God. In this movie Ray comfort uses the rhetorical appeals well to get people to change their minds about abortion.

themselves along the trail, in hiking gear, looking happy and healthy, radiant even. It was

The advertisement itself takes up a whole page in the magazine. The model posing is in a bedroom, sitting on the bed with a facial expression like she just accidentally forgot something or dropped something not necessarily important. She looks to be in her late teens or early twenties which leads me to believe that is the age group this advertisement is aimed at. The main caption is “Hey, nobody’s perfect” in two feminine, almost casual fonts and the word “perfect” is designed to stand out. There is also a picture in the bottom right-hand corner of the box for Plan B which is said to be for “the perfectly imperfect” underneath the picture. The bottom left-hand corner has the fine print along with the larger phrase “Millions of Women Have Already Chosen Plan B One-Step”. The

Equality Texarkana began very simply trying to stop the backlash that was occurring after the defeat of prop M-130, an anti-discrimination ordinance for Texarkana, Ark. The LGBT community was looking for someone to blame and began disparaging the work done by those involved in trying to save M-130. Jimmy Pope was sitting at home looking through Facebook seeing the negativity being spread and decided he had enough! He started the Facebook Group Equality Texarkana to offer a positive platform for the LGBT community to grow stronger and to support one another. Shortly after the group started, we decided what Texarkana needed was a Pride Event to draw everyone together. A group of people gathered together one afternoon to plan a picnic and they

It all began in Forth Worth, Texas on June 9, 1964, when Mr. and Mrs. Tisdale celebrated the welcoming of their third baby boy entering the world of curiosity. With the biggest smile ever, from there his parents knew something about Wayman. That God has something big planned in his future that will change his and his parents live, but his parents didn’t know how big. Suddenly, a loud church bell sounded the whole street, herded in like a herd of cattle everyone to Friendship Baptist Church to hear the word of God be spoken by Dr. Louis L. Tisdale. Cries erupted from the congregation from the Holy Ghost spreading from the tongue of one powerful man. Exclaiming how wonderful God is, and is promised for a better life. Little did the Tisdales know how powerful this statement would be to their lives.

This love for water deepened as our family sojourned from one Naval base to another. Before my eighteenth birthday, I had dipped my toes in the waves at least eleven beaches, from the island of Saipan to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This mobile childhood sparked a lifelong passion to travel the world, seeking the natural beauty of God’s magnificent creation. Water covers nearly three-quarters of the earth, therefore the opportunities to nourish my soul are more than abundant.

As I make my way down the line, I end up in front of a good-enough looking, yet sadly unremarkable young man. A pity swipe, I think to myself as I face him with my usual stare. He’s slightly taller than me and

The street was eerily quiet as I crossed. So was Mike. Staring at me unwaveringly, he said nothing as I approached. The crow's feet framing his eyes, the ridges in his forehead, and the crinkles in his cheeks still stand out in my mind. How many nights had he lain on that bench, covering his face as the wind whipped against it? Now he hugged his body tightly. He was wearing an old pair of tan khakis, a shirt that I couldn't see clearly, and a light multi-colored jacket, its sleeves ending above his pale wrists, that was just slightly too small and clung to his body. As I gave him the money in my wallet, he took it--slowly--and stared at it for a second in disbelief. Although the street in front of the library is usually an amalgam of car horns, headlights, whining engines throughout the night, nothing--not

Over the past 42 years, annual gay pride parades have become tradition in dozens of cities worldwide. They have evolved from radical marches to enjoyable festivals of celebrations with elaborate floats, and notable participants. This annual parade has been a way of celebrating LGBT history and diversity. These gay pride parades haven’t always been all happy, and full of beautiful rainbows though. In the beginning, 1969, they were portrayed as somber marches taking determined stands on gay rights. This research paper will specifically focus on the evolution of pride parades from 1969 to the present, and how the parades influenced the law.

Yuck! I don’t like that from strangers! I guess I can’t blame them though. It’s just how humans communicate. Anyway, I had been in that concrete place for a long time. I wasn’t sure if I would ever get out. This is when my hero came in. This hero’s name was Ted.