Taiwan 500+ gay pride youth engulfed in flames

[InTheLight]

The ONLY source that is claiming this was a gay pride event is the "news" source in the OP.

 

[kyredneck]

From the comments section after the "news" article:

I am a Christian and living in New Taipei City now. I want to tell you all this: "What happened to these teenagers and young people is really a tragedy! They went to the party to enjoy the music after the school year went to an end. It is NOT a gay pride event whatsoever. If you are real Christians, you should include these badly injuried people in your prayers.

I am a local from New Taipei City, Taiwan. The trurh is： this was NOT a gay pride event at all! It was just a carnival held by a theme park, then there was an explosion accident. Rainbow Party is a culture we called "HOLI FESTIVAL" from India. There are a lot of young people are suffering now. Please pray together for God to relieve their suffering and support to all the families. Thanks everyone......

The Pride in Taiwan is always held in October... this party is definitly NOTHING TO DO with the gay Pride... This "color" (not rainbow) party was planned before the approve of same sexaul merriage law...

This is just a a normal pool party with color powder, most of them are young couples(boy and girl) stop rumoring this. A 18yr old girl just died and her little 13yr old brother is burned with 80%of his skin struggling in the hospital.

This is just a simple color party, but this article misinterpret this as "gay party", and then so many "Christians" here cursing the injured people instead of praying for them.

It's not a gay event!! most of the victim are heterosexual and innocent Using this tragedy to spreading your believing is disgusting!

I am a Taiwanese who live in the New Taipei City, and I am here is to state that this is definitely not a gay pride party. 鄒小馬

How dare you use those poor teens to fulfil your religious propaganda. That was not a gay event. You guys are shame of human being , shame of love of Christians , you guys must be fellow of devil so that able to write this kind article and make this kind lie and using poor people's wounds to fulfil your dirty religious view .

Thank you for bringing that to light.

 

[poncho]

Thank you for bringing that to light.

The Pride in Taiwan is always held in October... this party is definitly NOTHING TO DO with the gay Pride... This "color" (not rainbow) party was planned before the approve of same sexaul merriage law...

I understand Taiwan is in a different time zone but I always assumed it was reckoned in hours not months.

As of this moment it is 11:41 PM Monday June 29th in Taipei.

October it would seem is still a long way off there also.

Call it a mega “show-only” or whatever you name it, Taipei Pride does bring the Asian LGBTQI community forward for greater visibility.

Like all other gay prides in the world, dressing up fabulously too little or too “over” is the unspoken rule. Taipei Pride 2015 took place just last Saturday, receiving somewhat 10,000 participants from across the country and other parts of Asia. You can often spot some really interesting costumes, which adds the sort of fun element into the event. Having said that, the Pride is definitely more than that, much much more. As we started asking the participants randomly on the street, we found that there are some commonly shared beliefs and viewpoints that are quite valuable to understanding what the Asian LGBT community really think about towards gay prides.

A gallery of memorable moments:

http://www.elementmag.asia/taipei-pride-2015-just-hope-taiwan-asia-whole/


(NaturalNews) EDITOR'S NOTE: Taiwan is not yet a society that has embraced people coming out of the closet. While in America, reporting on a group as being gay is considered routine and in no way offensive -- because being gay is openly accepted almost everywhere -- the designation of "gay" is still considered highly offensive in Taiwan, and even insulting in the minds of some.

As a result, there has been extreme social pressure applied to the sources we originally cited in our story, and one of them related to the South China Morning Post (Nanzao) has already backed off its original online report which linked the rainbow party to a global gay rights celebration, altering their text and now disclaiming any such link ever existed.

http://www.naturalnews.com/050232_gay_pride_Taiwan_burned_alive.html



美国政府承认同志婚姻，让许多地区的同志看见未来的曙光，纷纷大肆庆祝。台湾新北市八仙水上乐园星期六晚 就举办一场”彩虹派对”，不料乐极生悲发生大规模尘爆，造成大批民众灼伤，目前已造成至少458人蒙受轻重伤，有些性命垂危，创下新北市有史以来死亡最惨重的尘爆事件。警方初步估计，舞台所喷出的彩色粉末，可能是引发尘爆的主因。

粉尘爆炸民陷火海大逃亡 彩色趴惨化人间炼狱

这起尘爆发生在八仙水上乐园，事发时大批民众和游客，正在舞池中尽情狂欢。8点30分，主舞台突然传出爆炸声四起，舞池瞬间变成火海，民众仓皇逃命。

突如其来的爆炸，造成多人严重灼伤。当地消拯队伍随即抵达灾场，展开救援工作，将伤者送往医院急救。现场民众也加入救援行列，协助伤者。新北市消防局发言人指出，部分民众百分之40的皮肤严重灼伤，甚至有生命危险。不少伤者心有余悸，拯救人员惟有安抚慰藉，平复他们的情绪。

事发时，有超过1千人参与派对，挤满人潮，因此尘爆发生后，民众难于疏散，截至目前为止，至少有458轻重伤，其中百多人伤势严重，当局将这起事件定调为新北市死伤最惨重的尘爆。事发后，水上乐园暂时关闭停业，好让警方展开调查，初步调查显示，舞台所喷发的彩色粉末可能是引发这场尘爆的主因。

Source . . . http://www.newsplus.my/newsrooms/8tv/台八仙乐园彩虹趴尘爆-458人灼伤乐极生悲/


Copy and paste the chinese characters into this online translator . . . http://translation.babylon.com/chinese%20(s)/to-english/

The above is "Chinese simplified"

This is the translation I got . . .

The Government of the United States recognize gay marriage, so that many areas of comrades saw the dawn that have huge celebrations. Taiwan's new north city 8 cents water park Saturday at night for a "Rainbow Party" and unexpectedly, a very sad and a large-scale dust explosions, which resulted in a massive population burns, currently has caused at least 458 people suffered light injuries, some dying, and hit a new North City has ever the deadliest of dust explosions. The police estimated that initially, the stage of spray color powder, is likely the cause dust explosions.

You can also go to the webpage double click on it and select "translate to English" from the drop down menu. Assuming this website hasn't altered it's article and claiming "any such link ever existed."