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The LGBT [|Pride events in San Francisco] have been held continuously since 1972. The events are themed and a new theme is created each year. Over 100,000 people attend the 44th annual SF Pride parade; however, they had expected 1.5 million like the year before. The 43rd annual Pride parade was held the year that Gay Marriage became legal in California, a big deal for the LGBT community. Chelsea Manning was named an honorary Grand Marshall of the parade, because was a transgender in the military. There were complaints about having Manning as the Grand Marshall, because she is in prison for violating the Espionage Act and her title of Grand Marshall was revoked.

In the United States, anyone who is involved in the distribution and creation of pictures of minors in the act of sexting faces child pornography offenses that violate state and federal laws. The laws disregard the consent of parties involved."...regardless of one’s age or consent to sexting, it is illegal to produce, possess, or distribute explicit sexual images of anyone under 18." Sexting is legal if all parties are over the age of 18 with consent.

“Girls are often expected to develop sexual desires and modes of sexual expression that bear little evidence of their saturation in mass media representations of sexuality.." ” People model what they see in the media. It is the mass media that shows people how to behave sexually with the orientation that they identify with. Some teens are innocently recreating what they see in the media, and then being punished when pictures are leaked, or if they get caught by US authorities. Unfortunately the danger with sexting is there are people who use this form of expression to maliciously get back at others, and that is what gives a new form of sexual expression a bad reputation.

Mass media, such as magazines and blogs, suggest sexting for adults, because it could benefit communication practices between them. Sexting makes it possible to switch up the stereotypical gender role of men approaching women sexually. Sexting allows adult women to be more confident and demanding of their partners, because it is not face-to-face. Mass media does not encourage teen or underage sexting, because of the child pornography laws they could violate.