"Our accepting a booking in no ways implies that we endorse the respective organization or its speakers," the statement said. A six-day Pride celebration including a play and a.
Organizers of Georgia’s first LGBT+ Pride event vowed on Monday to press ahead with a rally in the capital despite a government warning that such a gathering would be impossible following threats from far-right groups. "Pier Sixty has never discriminated against any group or organization nor have we ever based our acceptance of a booking contingent on our approval of the speakers our clients choose to present at these private events," it said through a spokesman. The LGBT+ community has flourished underground in Georgia. This month, its website features support for gay pride month. It is unlikely pressure from outside groups will derail the conference a second time.Ī spokesman for the new venue, Pier Sixty, located in the Chelsea Piers complex, said it was not in a position to arbitrate any differences between the groups, saying it has had a long history of being inclusive. The subtropical island of Key West will welcome revelers to its annual Pride celebrations Wednesday through Sunday, June 1-5. We will not respond to such political bullying," Jack Kliger, the president and CEO of the museum, wrote. Tikvah knew that this was not about banning anyone from speaking but decided to make the false claim anyway. "When we declined to host the event, Tikvah resorted to threats, saying we had created an enemy. The museum penned an op-ed of its own, saying its charter forbids it from renting space for purely political or religious reasons. There are numerous events scheduled throughout the city with the Pride 2022 Street Fair taking place June 4, 10 a.m. The Coalition for Jewish Values, which says it represents more than 2,000 Orthodox rabbis, scolded the museum for denying DeSantis a platform. This years Key West Pride kicked off June 1 and runs through June 5. "The new czars of cancel culture seem to have little such moral imagination or civic tolerance," they wrote.
The op-ed asserted that protecting free speech was more important than concerns over protests or a potential backlash from donors. "We know things are bad when a Jewish institution - in this case, a museum whose purpose is to keep Jewish heritage alive by remembering the Holocaust - turns on its own and tries to make a virtue of its own intolerance," wrote Tikvah CEO Eric Cohen and its chairman, Elliott Abrams.
The museum cited security issues among its key concerns, plus a desire not to host political speakers, but in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the leaders of the Tikvah Fund, the group organizing the conference, accused the museum of having a political litmus test. The Museum of Jewish Heritage had been set to host the annual gathering of conservative thinkers but backed out earlier this spring.