National Public Radio “breaking news” reporter Ayana Archie served up an example of  tax-funded public media once again going beyond traditional liberal media support for gay rights and going full throttle to throw unprofessional, anti-journalistic support to the entire alphabet movement (LGBTQIA….) in an article posted to NPR Thursday, “The LGBT community shows up for WorldPride in D.C., despite some worries about Trump.”

Archie piled on the melodrama right off the bat.

Charley Beal says he has been fighting his whole life.

When he was six, his mother took him to a Civil Rights demonstration in downtown Lansing, Michigan. At 17, he marched against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, an offshoot of the Vietnam War. In 2000, he attended the inaugural WorldPride in Rome. He was accompanying his late friend Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag, who was scouting a gallery space for an exhibit. Beal said emissaries were going around town telling business owners not to do business with gay people.

So instead, Baker held his exhibit on a boat in the middle of the Tiber River, with a giant rainbow flag. Beal has since carried on Baker's legacy as president of the Gilbert Baker Foundation.

"We didn't run away and hide," he said.

Below, Archie offered the deluded idea that "queers" are somehow invisible in American society (they certainly turn up a lot on tax-funded PBS).

Twenty-five years later, WorldPride continues -- this year in Washington, D.C. But so does the queer community's fight to be seen, said Beal, now 69. Members of the queer community have expressed fear, hesitation and fortitude as Pride festivities kicked off in D.C., where President Trump signed several executive orders limiting the rights of transgender people, including banning them from the military, banning transgender women from women's sports and ending gender-affirming care for those under age 19.

But make no mistake -- Beal will still be at D.C. Pride. He is appearing on a panel hosted by the Human Rights Conference and will be toting a 1,000-foot rainbow flag in the parade. Though, not everyone is feeling celebratory.

June Crenshaw is the deputy director of Capital Pride Alliance, the nonprofit that throws D.C. Pride annually and has helped produce more than 350 WorldPride events across the city from mid-May to the first week of June. She said she understands that people have to assess their own comfort levels in deciding whether to come.

Crenshaw also featured on the PBS News Hour, discussing Trump in fearful terms.

NPR took seriously left-wing fear-mongering over a possible attack (though the actual terrorism taking place in America now is of the left-wing, anti-Semitic variety).

Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said in a press conference last week that the department spent over a year preparing for the event. Its safety plan includes dispatching an increased police presence across the city and enlisting specialized units and neighboring jurisdictions to help.

She said there are no known credible threats to any Pride events, but the department will continue monitoring.

Some of the personal anecdotes Archie gathered were puzzling.

After Trump's first election, Dave Peruzza was working at a gay bar and said there was about a 30% drop in sales soon after....Some of his customers consider Pride itself to be a protest, a declaration that the LGBTQ+ community cannot be erased, he said....

Who is talking about “erasure,” besides LGBTQ movement activists posing as victims?