{"id":49878,"date":"2014-06-05T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49878"},"modified":"2014-06-05T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T20:24:07","slug":"us-color-guard-to-march-in-dc-gay-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49878","title":{"rendered":"US Color Guard to march in DC Gay Pride parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/2524288783\/in\/set-72157606264370377\/player\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/us-armed-forces-color-guard-to-march-in-gay-pride-parade-in-dc-called-a-first-nationwide\/2014\/06\/05\/32955202-ec26-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post<\/a>, the Armed Forces Color Guard will accompany the Washington, DC Gay Pride parade;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shortly after Dykes on Bikes rumble across the starting line of the Capital Pride parade in downtown Washington on Saturday, an expected 150,000 spectators should witness something never before seen on an American city street \u2014 a U.S. Armed Forces color guard marching alongside rainbow flags in a gay pride parade.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense has authorized what military gay-rights groups and organizers of the Capital Pride parade say is a first nationwide \u2014 a color guard that will present the red, white and blue and flags of each branch of the military.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-member team is scheduled to help lead off the 1.5-mile parade, immediately preceding the Capital Pride lead banner and grand marshall Chris Kluwe, the former NFL punter and author of the book \u201cBeautifully Unique Sparkleponies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve accidentally watched the DC Gay Pride parade. My wife and I were on a &#8220;walking tour&#8221; of the British March on the White House in 1814. We were walking back when we saw a parade coming so we stopped to watch. In the lead were cheerleaders &#8211; as they got closer, we saw that they were cheerleaders with beards and hairy legs. It just got more bizarre from the point &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t watch it all. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why the Department of Defense thought that it was a good idea to have an honorable and solemn representation at that clown show. Gay Pride parades have historically been made up of the worst stereotypes of the gay community. Living in DC, I had a few gay friends who hated the event.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, the Armed Forces Color Guard will accompany the Washington, DC Gay &hellip; <a title=\"US Color Guard to march in DC Gay Pride parade\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49878\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Color Guard to march in DC Gay Pride parade<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}