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Berlin: 500,000-Paris: 500,000 |
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By Rex Wockner
A postcard celebrating Berlin's Christopher Street Day Pride. Additional
postcards are available on the group's Web site at www.berlin-pride.de
200,000 March in Brazi Two hundred thousand people turned out for the gay-pride parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 17, making it the largest gay-pride march anywhere in the Third World. Sao Paulo's first parade, six years ago, attracted only 2,000 people. Mayor Marta Suplicy addressed the celebrants at a rally in the gay-bar district in the city center. 500,000 Party in Berlin
500,000 Party in Paris Half a million people turned out for Paris' gay-pride parade June 23, including openly gay Mayor Bertrand Delanoe who led the procession behind a banner reading "All together against discrimination." The parade began at Porte Doree in the southeast of the city, passed by the Bastille jail, and ended at the Place de la Republique. Among the marchers' demands: Equal access to adoption and artificial insemination, and recognition of the Nazis' anti-gay atrocities. Registered French gay couples receive most other rights of matrimony. In Italy, 30,000 people marched in Milan. Vice-Mayor Riccardo De Corato told the ANSA wire service that the city did "not |
