What does FLAG stand for?

Spectators saved some of their biggest cheers for marchers with PFLAG -- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays -- who hugged their way down Fourth Avenue.

Show us you are indeed that fierce advocate," said Jody Huckaby, executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

Filtered sites included prominent gay and lesbian rights organizations including Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), the nation's largest support group for gay allies, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a group that supports student gay-straight clubs, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay and lesbian rights advocate.

As a licensed medical professional myself, I was appalled to learn that Love in Action was holding itself out as a legitimate health care provider when in fact they are not," said Arnold Drake, head of the Memphis chapter of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

She suggests that the church is out of step with contemporary thinking and that it needs to adopt the secular thinking of such pro-gay organizations as Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Dignity, the National Association for Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries (NACDLGM), or New Ways Ministry.

David Tseng, the executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, concurred.

org/ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG): http://www.

Li and her partner of nine years, Kim Davis, 37, are both members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG, a national organization committed to educating people about homosexuality and supporting gays.