Vancouver Gay Pride Parade '08 30th Anniversary Edition

Vancouver Skateboarders Riding the ramps on a moving flatbed

Some band playing

Vancouver Men's Chorus and Choir

Drag queens on a truck dancing and partying it up

Work Safe BC's float. Was a really nice float - I just didn't quite understand why they were there. Chalk it up to corporate sponsorship. Supporting Gay Pride is good for your image in the community.

Vancouver Aquatic Center's float. Very cool and great imagination went into this one. The balloons represent water and the people with the swimming caps were racing down the 'lanes' while running up the street.

More queens

His sign reads something like "we sincerely appologize to the Gay community for the way the Catholic church has treated you over the years." This guy got lots of cheers from the audience. I hope one of you right wing nutjobs sees this and sends me piles of hate mail.

Desi pride

It's not gay pride without a truck load full of boys in their underwear.

The crowd following the parade through the route. Looks like these guys have a little bit of support in this city.

This update is a little late because I was feeling a little bit lazy. I walked out of my apartment last weekend to run some errands and ended up in the middle of thousands of people concentrated on Vancouver's Robson Street to watch the Annual Gay Pride Parade. It was nice to see these little princesses out dancing and partying it up in the streets with what looked like wide spread support for their cause. Judging from what I see on CNN and Fox News I don't think these guys and girls and guy/girls would have had such a warm response in other parts of N America.

Here are a load of pics from this Pride Parade 08. Enjoy :)