Saturday, June 09, 2007

Boston Pride Official Participants: All-Out Assault on Decency

Here is an index of the groups assaulting our community today at the Boston Pride parade. Will the elementary and pre-schools have their little children marching alongside adults of unknown character? What are hospitals and health care companies doing on the list (Beth Israel, Dana Farber, Tufts Health)? From Boston Pride's web site:

Boston Pride Parade Participants 2007 (as of June 4)
All The Kings Men -- Animal Rescue League of Boston -- Arlington Street Church -- Atrium School -- Auburndale, United Parish -- Avalon Night Club -- Backyard Productions -- Barrios Committee -- Bay State Stonewall Democrats -- Bay Windows -- Bedford, First Parish -- Belmont Gay Straight Alliance Committee -- Bentley College -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -- BGLANTS, GLBT Students at Andover Newton Theological School -- Bisexual Resource Center -- Boston Derby Dames -- Boston Gay Men's Chorus -- Boston Living Center -- Boston Prime Timers -- Boston, First Church of -- Braintree, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church -- Cambridge Friends School -- Cambridge Health Alliance -- Cambridge, First Parish Unitarian Universalist -- Cambridge, The City of -- Chiltern Mountain Club -- Colage of Greater Boston -- Concord, First Parish -- Coro Allegro -- Dana Farber -- Delta Air Lines -- Dignity Boston -- Donor Pride, Inc -- East Coast Biker Chicks Motorcycle Club -- Ellis South End Neighborhood Association -- Emmanuel Church -- Episcopal Dioscese of MA -- Fagbug -- Femmes & Allies -- Fenway Community Health -- FLAG Flag Football -- Franklin, First Unitarian Church -- Freedom Trail Band -- Frontrunners Boston -- Gay Fathers of Greater Boston -- Gay Men's Domestice Violence Project -- Gay Officers Action League -- Gays for Patsy -- GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) -- GLBT Youth Network -- GLSEN -- Greater Boston PFLAG -- Greater Lynn, UU Church -- Groton, First Parish Church -- Harbor To The Bay -- Hub Plumbing & Mechanical Inc -- In Newsweekly -- Independent Pagans of New England -- Ironside Rugby Football Club -- K Street Facilities -- Keshet -- KinshipLanes-Liquid Assets New England Swimming -- Latin American Health Institute -- Lexington Montessori School -- LGBT Aging Project -- Liz Malia [State Rep.] -- MA Conference (UCC) -- Machine Nightclub -- Malden, First Parish -- Map For Health -- MAPS -- MassEquality -- Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition -- Metropolitan Community Church of Boston -- Michael F Flaherty (Boston City Council) -- Michael Ross, Boston City Council -- Mike Cottei, Committee to Elect -- Moving Violations Motorcycle Club -- Multicultural AIDS Coalition-State Emergency Initiative -- Network Health -- Network La Red -- New England Leather Alliance -- Newton, First Unitarian Society -- North Andover-North Parish of Interweave UU -- Now Greater Boston -- Old South Church in Boston -- Ole [Older Lesbian Energy] -- Phoenix -- Pine Village Preschool -- Queer Soup Inc -- Ramrod -- Rhode Island Pride Committee -- Sam Yoon, Committee to Elect -- Seacost Gay Men, Inc. -- Sexual Orientations United With Pride -- Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center/JRI -- Sidney Frank Importing Co. Inc. (Jagermeister) -- Social Justice Committe-Wellsley Hills Unitarian Church -- Somos Latinos -- Sovereign Bank -- Speak Out -- Starbucks -- Stonewall Communities -- Stow & Acton, First Parish -- Sudbury, First Parish UU -- Team Enterprises, USA -- Theatre Offensive -- Tim Schofield, Commttiee to Elect -- TJX Companies -- Tobin Committee (Boston City Councillor) -- Tufts Health Plan -- United Here Local 26 -- Verizon -- Voices Rising -- Waltham, First Presbyterian Church -- Wellesley Friends Meeting -- Weston, First Parish Church -- Winchester Unitarian Society -- Women Meeting Women -- Yale Appliance & Lighting