by Erin Duffy/The Times
NEW HOPE, Pa. -- Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was the special guest on Saturday during the second annual Rainbow Pride Parade here, held in conjunction with the fifth annual New Hope Celebrates Pride Weekend. Rendell led the parade from its beginnings at New Hope-Solebury High School to South Main Street.
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by: Emily Irwin, OIA Newswire
5th ANNUAL GAY PRIDE WEEKEND IN NEW HOPE IS SET FOR MAY 16-18 WITH A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS & PERFORMANCES
Pride Parade through New Hope is on Saturday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m.
NEW HOPE, PA - New Hope Celebrates (NHC) hosts its 5th anniversary pride weekend May 16-18, 2008. This celebration of New Hope, Pennsylvania's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and allied (GLBTA) visitors, friends and neighbors raises money to support Fighting AIDS Continuously Together (FACT) Bucks County, Philadelphia FIGHT, Trevor Project and William Way Community Center. The weekend includes performances by groundbreaking comedienne Suzanne Westenhoefer, folk-funk musician Christine Havrilla, "dragapella beautyshop quartet" The Kinsey Sicks and dance chart favorite Kristine W. Details and tickets are available online at
www.NewHopeCelebrates.com.
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MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) A children's book with a homosexual theme will remain on the shelves of a Lehigh County library, despite complaints about the story.
The Lower Macungie Township Library board is refusing for a second time to remove the book ``King & King,'' despite objections from one couple and 40 signatures from other residents.
Eileen Issa says she was reading the story to her 2{-year-old son when she came to the ending where the prince gets married to a man. She says when she saw the illustration of the newlywed men kissing she ``was sick.''
Library Director Kathee Rhode says the library seeks to offer a variety of views and ways of life. She says library officials want parents to decide on subject matter for their own children, but not one parent to decide for all children.
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