Liam Stack of The New York Times proclaims on his article page at NYTimes.com that he follows his paper’s “Ethical Journalism Handbook” and so “I make every effort to understand issues from multiple angles.” There are no multiple angles when it’s time to celebrate a Gay Pride march.
On the front page was a color photo with the headline “Pride, and Resistance,” noting “Millions packed the streets of Manhattan to celebrate amid the most hostile political climate for LGBTQ Americans in decades.”
Inside the paper, Stack’s article was headlined “With Defiance and Joy, Marching to Celebrate LGBTQ Pride.” No opponent of the LGBTQ lobby was quoted, because who needs “multiple angles”? Stack’s lede matched the caption about the “most hostile political climate.” Stack quoted a pack of extremely panicked activists implying the conservatives are going to kill or injure them somehow.
“I’ve seen the progression over the years, and I have marched many, many, many times,” said Pam Ballo, 57, who had traveled from Portland, Ore., to attend the New York march with her mother and child. “And now we’ve circled so far back and there’s such a giant shadow because there’s so much darkness. It’s one of the scariest times, for sure, I think, next to the AIDS crisis.”
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“There’s more fear than there was, and it feels like as a country we’re regressing,” said Jeannette Burgos, 70, who attended a youth Pride event in Manhattan on Saturday with her godchild, Quincy Robinson, 18, who is nonbinary. “I’m personally scared for my own family members.”
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On Sunday, Jack Strauch, 34, a transgender man from New Jersey, wore pink and blue shoes to the New York City march, to match the transgender Pride flag. He said he thought it was important to attend Pride to feel “validated” in a political climate that often feels “kind of dangerous for a lot of us.”
The Times wants to argue liberal bias is winning: "The New York march is the largest of its kind in the United States, with 75,000 participants and roughly two million spectators, according to organizers. It is also broadcast on network television, a testament to how much public support for L.G.B.T.Q. people has grown over a generation." The parade is apparently broadcast live on ABC's New York City station.
But now there's a "backlash." Leftists can't seem to grasp the obvious that they have kept pushing the boundaries of their gender-bending revolution until people objected to "gender-affirming" mutilations and boys in girls' sports. It's not a "backlash" as much as a reaction to new extremes.
Stack wrote: "Transgender individuals and their allies have been hit hard by the anti-diversity fervor of the Trump administration, which spent heavily on campaign ads attacking trans people in the months leading up to last year’s presidential election." Stack sounded more like he had "anti-diversity fervor," since he didn't have a diversity of opinions in his Pride Parade story.
Not all protests are equally celebrated, of course. In January, the headline on the paper's "March for Life" protest story by Elisabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer was headlined "Opponents of Abortion Raise Their Ambitions."
In that case, the Times found an opposing view to quote. Elisabeth Smith, the state policy director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, warned against any more protections of unborn babies: “We’re in that same place where people understandably cannot accept what is coming because it is too awful to accept, and it is against the will of the people.”
Photo captured from New York Post video.
