{"id":20306,"date":"2014-02-06T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2014-02-06T00:20:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:20:40","slug":"cyprus-to-have-its-first-gay-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/06\/cyprus-to-have-its-first-gay-pride-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus to have its first Gay Pride parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n

Cyprus first-ever Gay Pride parade will be held in Nicosia on May 31 and it will be part of the 15-day-long Cyprus Pride Festival, according to ACCEPT LGBTI Cyprus head Costas Gavrielides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just for the record, I am against the parade. \u00a0Not against gay people, but against the parade. \u00a0I am as much against the Straight Pride<\/a> parade. \u00a0I don’t think that sexual preferences are a good choice for parading.<\/p>\n

As far as the actual rights, laws, and morals go – I do agree with some and do disagree with the other, but, once again, I think there are other ways to work them out.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail reports: Cyprus first-ever Gay Pride parade will be held in Nicosia on May 31 and it will be part of the 15-day-long Cyprus Pride Festival, according to ACCEPT LGBTI Cyprus head Costas Gavrielides. Just for the record, I am against the parade. \u00a0Not against gay people, but against the parade. \u00a0I am as … Continue reading Cyprus to have its first Gay Pride parade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,106],"tags":[2422,2866,3269,1128,741],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-20306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-nicosia","tag-events","tag-human-rights","tag-lgbt","tag-lifestyle","tag-parade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8740,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/25\/greece-independence-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":20306,"position":0},"title":"Greece Independence Day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are wondering why all the offices in Cyprus are closed today, I'll tell you. 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