{"article":{"id":163477,"heading":"cHristohper $treet Worst","author":"Carolina","created":"2006-06-12 16:18:10","modified":"2006-07-10 15:17:00","last_modified":"Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:17:00","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>I'm writing this at home as \"pride \" parade is going on. <br><br> I've marched in many past CSW parades's with my Transgender contingents. <br><br> the parade --filled with commercial and 'religous' entries, very feww political ones, <br>  <br> and the $20 to-get-in 'festival' [plus double inflated prices for everything you eat and drink], and has-been 'entertainers' isn't worth it. <br><br> San Francisco's is much bigger and better and  charges  only $ 3.00 to enter. <br><br> Instead of Love &amp; Equality, CSW seems to promote GREED, HYPER-CONSUMERISM, AND ELITISM  of  upper-class, white gay men, with all others in 'LBGT' only after thoughts [just another sucker to have their wallets and purses emptied by CSW organizers]. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Why waste time & $$$ for CSW commercial elitists. ","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/06\/163477.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":163635,"heading":"Carolina makes a good point","article":"This is not the only civil rights march to get co-opted.\r\nThe King day parade has also been hijacked by the corporations and the military.\r\n","author":"A","parent_id":163477,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-06-13 14:19:07","modified":"2006-06-13 14:19:07","fileurl":""},{"id":167681,"heading":"SF Pride has been commercialized","article":"Whoa, San Francisco Pride is one big commerical, and the planners of it discriminate against media and the transgender community. Please follow the link above to learn more. If you go to San Francisco indymedia you can see more....\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indybay.org\/sf\/\r\nthat link will show you some of the other experiences that queers had at San Francisco Gay Pride.\r\nGay Pride' have become a hassle and have become costly. It is my opinion they are veering away from the community that started them.","author":"a TG person","parent_id":163477,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-07-10 15:17:00","modified":"2006-07-10 15:17:00","fileurl":""}]}