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the 2014 Gay Pride March in pics (NSFW)

photos by Amanda Hatfield

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…Khaki shirts, olive pants and rainbow neckerchiefs: the Boy Scout uniform, pride-style — a uniform that had never been seen on a group of marchers in New York City’s pride parade before.

They had come to mark progress — the Boy Scouts of America’s breakthrough vote last year to end a decades-old policy of prohibiting openly gay youths from being scouts — and to call for more. However, the organization, a touchstone of traditional America, still bars openly gay adults from participating as troop leaders or volunteers. Ending that ban has become a signature cause for the gay-rights movement.

“I want gay parents to have the opportunity to scout with their children,” said Greg Bourke, 56, who said he was forced to step down as a leader of his son’s troop in Kentucky two years ago after local Scouts officials learned he was gay and threatened to revoke the troop’s charter. “Adult leaders should have the same opportunities as everyone else has to take part in an organization that’s a bedrock of America.”

A Boy Scout wearing a rainbow neckerchief at the Gay Pride March. Credit James Estrin/The New York Times
As parade outfits go, the scouts’ attire was among the tamest. Just ahead of them, one man’s head bore a live parrot; another’s back had sprouted enormous white wings. A third wore little more than a pair of red briefs spangled with gold medallions, and roller skates. – [NY Times]

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