Foreign Embassies, Greens Party Extend Hand to Sofia Gay March

Society | June 17, 2009, Wednesday // 13:52
Foreign Embassies, Greens Party Extend Hand to Sofia Gay March: Foreign Embassies, Greens Party Extend Hand to Sofia Gay March An exhibitionist at the Athens Gay Pride festival dances in the streets of Athens, Greece, on 13 June 2009.

The Sofia June 27 Rainbow Friendship march has received the support of several embassies and of Bulgaria's The Greens party.

The parade is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

They events are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when gays and lesbians fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted homosexuals, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement and the foundation of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Movement in the US and around the world.

The US, UK, Dutch, Belgium, Finish, French, Swedish, Norwegian and German Embassies in Sofia are official supporters of the march. The all have issued declarations of support, published on their official sites.

The Embassies and the other event's supporter - Bulgaria's The Greens Party say they unite around the parade organizers in their idea to encourage respect of human rights.

Rainbow Friendship in Bulgaria is organized in coalition with NGOs and businesses including the international InterPride Association, the Bulgarian Gay Organization Gemini, mix-club "ID Club", among others.

The event is the second gay march to be held in Sofia.

More than 60 persons were arrested in June 2008 by the police for trying to attack and harass the participants in the first Sofia gay pride parade. The arrested were mostly representatives of the skin heads and other extremist groups, who were throwing stones, bottles, squibs, and even Molotov cocktails at the procession.

 

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