WATCH | Anti-gay protests in Los Angeles after school votes to recognise June as Pride month
Protest scene
Anti-gay demonstrators protested outside a school in Glendale, California, coinciding with a vote by the Los Angeles school to recogniseJune as LGBTQ+ Pride month.
Disturbing visuals emerged from the protest, showing a violent altercation among a large crowd outside the school district building.
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Democratic politicians, known for their support of the LGBTQ+ community, strongly condemned the incident, denouncing the acts of violence and hate.
This is not an isolated event, as a similar protest occurred outside a North Hollywood elementary school a week earlier, resulting in clashes between protesters and police.
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In conservative Orange County, the board of supervisors recently voted to restrict the display of Pride flags on government property, seen as an attempt to undermine Pride month celebrations.
Additionally, a school board in the Inland Empire region rejected a history curriculum that mentioned Harvey Milk, a murdered civil rights activist and the first openly gay elected official in California's history, citing it as "activism" and questioning its relevance to the curriculum.
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“My question is why even mention a paedophile,” the conservative school board president said, according to the Press-Enterprise. “What does that got to do with our curriculum in schools? That’s a form of activism.”
Reacting to the protests, Democratic congressman Adam Schiff, who represents Glendale shared a video of the fight and rebuked the “continued acts of violence and hate towards our LGBTQ community” as “horrific," as per Guardian.
The congressman in a tweet wrote, “We will not apologize for celebrating the strength and the diversity of our LGBTQ community."
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