the pride
ISSUE NUMBER 75, VOLUME 46 | MARCH 4 – MARCH 17, 2022 03.04.2022 – 03.17.2022
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THE LOS ANGELES LGBT NEWSPAPER
LA Pride Announces New Location Festival returning to Hollywood By SuSan Payne After a two year hiatus, the second largest pride parade in the nation will make a return on June 12, according to a press release from Christopher Street West, the nonprofit that produces LA Pride. This year, LA Pride is shifting away from its West Hollywood location and back to its roots in Hollywood at its “first and original location,” stated Gerald Garth, vice president of programs and initiatives at CSW. “As a mission-driven and communitycentered nonprofit organization, CSW recognizes that LGBTQ+ experiences of Los Angeles are broader than just one neighborhood. Considering feedback gathered since the pandemic began, we are committed to creating experiences and access to our entire community, including many of those who have been most underserved and underrepresented,” Garth stated. CSW organized the world’s first permitted
parade advocating for gay rights on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in New York City the year prior. Every year since — except 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — CSW organizes Pride Month activations and events thematically. This year, Pride Month is a commitment to equity that will live beyond the month of June focusing on generational, experiential and geographic diversity. “We considered many options for the parade, both traditional and progressive. Hollywood as the original historical location for the first Los Angeles protest 50 years age was a natural choice to honor what pride really means and where pride will go in the future,” Garth stated. Outlined by LA County Health officials and the CDC, LA Pride will follow health and safety guidelines, according to the release. Information about route, safety, security, float capacity and further parade and programming will be available on LApride.org. For sponsorship and talent inquiries, contact LA Pride at intheknow@lapride.org. For more information, find @lapride on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or visit LApride.org.
West Hollywood City Council at 2019 LA Pride.
Photo: Morgan Genser
Gascón Policy Reversed After Sex Offender Gloats About ‘Light Sentence’ Reversal comes after jailhouse recordings release By SuSan Payne Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced a policy reversal in the case of Hannah Tubbs, a violent offender convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl, who gloated over the light punishment in an explicit jailhouse recording. Tubbs, 26, who identifies as a Trans female, admitted to sexually assaulting the girl in 2014 inside the bathroom of a Denny’s restaurant, according to The Los Angeles Blade. A minor herself, Tubbs was sentenced last month to serve time in a LA County youth facility isolated for two years. The ruling sparked outrage against Gascón’s policies in regard to prosecution of juveniles for major felonies after jailhouse recordings revealed Tubbs speaking boastfully about the charge and laughing
that she won’t have to register as a sex offender, The Blade reported. In December 2020, Gascón announced reform that banned judges from charging juveniles as adults, but the nature of this case convicted Gascón to reverse his policy. Although a reversal has been made, Tubbs’ case remains in juvenile court and she won’t have to register as a sex offender. Tubbs, who committed a series of violent crimes since the assault, could have been sentenced to almost a decade in prison if she was tried and convicted as an adult, The Blade stated. “We now have a year under our belt. We have seen the things that are not necessarily working as well as I would prefer,” Gascón said in an interview with LAist reporter Ftank Stolze. Going forward, Gascón said decisions on juvenile cases will be made on “a case-bycase basis” and “at the highest levels” of his office, LAist reported. This decision came after his staff learned that Fox News had obtained the jailhouse recordings of Tubbs bragging about her light punishment, The Blade reported. “She boasted that nothing would happen to
her after she pleaded guilty and then laughed that she won’t have to go back to prison or register as a sex offender. She also made explicit remarks about the victim that are unfit to print,” Fox stated. I’m gonna plead out to it, plead guilty,” Tubbs says in one recording. “They’re gonna stick me on probation, and it’s gonna get dropped, it’s gonna be done, I won’t have to register, won’t have to do nothing.” “You won’t have to register?” her father asked. “I won’t have to do none of that,” Tubbs replied.
“So what are they going to do to you then?” the father asked. “Nothing,” Tubbs said, then laughed. The recordings were released to the public by Fox LA through video format at the end of February. Although Gascón has not made a reversal in Tubbs punishment, an email to the Los Angeles Times admitted his approach was incorrect: “The complex issues and facts of her particular case were unusual, and I should have treated them that way,” he stated.