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Posts Tagged ‘pride’
Hotties of Pride
So basically I took too many pictures at Pride, 383 to be exact.
I edited them down to 174, it’s still a lot but manageable.
I can’t post them all at once, and you probably don’t want to see them all.
I culled ten from the lot, I call this set ‘hotties of the parade’.
Enjoy…
Don’t you sometimes wish superheroes were real? Or that we could dress up in costume all the time?
I really want to be friends with this woman just so some of her fierceness rubs off on me.
Here’s another fierce shot, Grace Jones comes to mind. I imagine she has fun all day long.
Now I want gold granny panties and a bra, and orange hair.
That’s BC CTV’s Perry.
I know this picture is blurry but it’s the only one I got.
This is Candis Cayne, if you ever watched ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money you probably remember her as Carmelita.
Here’s a better picture of her, she’s very pretty.
This was my favourite Pride moment!
Hands!
Christine is great and an amazing singer, you should check out her Myspace page
This young man was so sweet and nice to my mom, I hope his parents are proud of him.
And here’s Miss BC…
Pride – A Pictorial Tale
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This past Sunday was Vancouver’s Pride Parade.
And with Pride comes a sad realization that summer is creeping to an end.
About 700,000 people lined the parade route this year to take in the show and we weren’t disappointed.
It was fun, euphoric, colourful, risqué and above all amazing.
Here are some pictures and two videos;
Summer’s End and Pride
All too soon summer’s almost gone. In a couple of days we’ll have that one last long weekend, then the leaves will start turning a golden hue. The leaves have started turning in some places, my friend E. just got back from the north (northern BC, Yukon and Alaska) and tells me that fall has reached them already.
I’m not one of those people who romanticize the notion of what could have been. I had a lot of plans and hopes for the summer. Some came to be, others we’ll have to table for next summer. There are a few sunny days yet to get into a little bit of trouble before the darkness and rain besiege us. But this isn’t a post about what could have been; this is a post to celebrate an amazing season that’s passed.
I went to a lot of festivals this summer, probably more than I’ve ever attended in my entire life. I rediscovered the city a little and managed not to run across the border every weekend.
I can’t believe Pride was almost a month ago, the BC Day long weekend signifies the peak of summer for me. It’s packed with events, always sunny, hot and it hardly ever rains.
Now on to Pride; I’ve finally gotten around to sorting through the thousands of pictures I took.
I’ve heard a lot of people complain that the Pride parade has gotten too corporate, which is ironic because the purpose of the parade is to foster acceptance and tolerance. Although I chuckled when I saw the Winners float.
This year a record 600,000 people lined the streets to watch the parade and it seemed like half of us had DSLR cameras, which is great because Pride is all about the photo ops.
This was by far my favourite costume
I can only imagine the time and effort that goes into producing an ensemble like that.
Folks couldn’t get enough shots of this cute little girl, her t-shirt said “I may be gay” and she was so sweet.
One of the Parade’s Grand Marshals was gay rights activists Cleve Jones, he was friends with Harvey Milk and Emile Hirsch portrays him in the 2008 movie Milk
The Mayor and the City of Vancouver painted the town pink.
This PFLAG granny has been doing these parades for the past eleven years.
Speaking of going corporate, here’s a dude from the Holiday Inn
Jack Layton and all the other political parties represented, except for the Conservatives.
And this, folks, is partly why I come to Pride every year!
Here are the rest of the photos from my flickr set, this includes the boobs and (simulated) S&M shots I can’t show here.
