As we move into the tail end of the 2013 gay pride season, we’re getting lots of reviews and photos from recent pride events. We’ll share some of them with you here:
London Pride 2013
Gay Web Source reviews London Pride, with photos:
Well, Pride in London finally arrived, and after last year’s damp squib (World Pride, too, if you remember), it can only be accounted a huge success for the new team in charge. The theme of the parade this year was, rightly, love and marriage, for it won’t be long now before gay men and women will be able to marry their partners, whatever delaying tactics our opponents use. The tide is surely in our favour.
They’ve also got photos of the Main Stage at London Pride:
We sent our roving photographer Monty McKinnen to Pride In London’s Trafalgar Square main stage event to snap the stars, who performed to thousands of spectators.
New York Pride 2013
Over at Gay City News, they have a bunch of NY Pride photos:
With many hundreds of thousands of participants and spectators, the June 30 LGBT Pride March was not only an exuberant show of community strength and personal courage but also a celebration of the previous week’s victories over the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8 at the US Supreme Court.
And there are even more photos at The Washington Blade
The New York City Pride Parade wound through the streets of Manhattan on Sunday.
And The Washington Blade has pics from the Dance on the Pier, too:
New York City Pride continued with a Dance on the Pier following the Pride Parade on Sunday. Performers included Deborah Cox and Cher with a special guest appearance by Whoopi Goldberg.
Seattle Pride 2013
Over at Seattle Pride, The Advocate has photos too:
Thanks to Nate Gowdy and Seattle Gay News for some of the happiest Pride parade photos we have seen this year.
Toronto Pride 2013
And finally, Towleroad.com reports on the Trans March in Toronto:
The 2013 Trans March as part of Pride Toronto, was finally ‘permitted’ to march down Yonge Street, having been relegated to Church Street in past years leaving many in the community feeling sidelined by the Pride Toronto organization. This years theme for the Trans March was “Celebration, Commemoration, Demonstration by and for the Trans Community” and there was plenty to celebrate. The march which had been relegated to march down Church Street in the past was finally ‘permitted’ by Pride Toronto to march down Yonge. The other two major parades over the Pride weekend, including the Dyke March and main Sunday parade, both have their routes on Yonge Street.