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in Sao Paulo, Brazil Large Turnouts for Europe's Pride Marches Canadians Go Marching in Toronto
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Compiled by GayToday
120,000 March in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Police said 120,000 people converged on Sao Paulo, Brazil's main
financial avenue June 25 for the city's fourth Gay Pride Parade.
"We are going to march so that people see how many of us there are, how different we are from each other, and how we're just like the rest of the world," a parade pamphlet said. Banners called for an end to hate crimes and prejudice. Large Turnouts for Europe's Pride Marches
France already has a partner-registration law that grants gay couples most rights of matrimony. There are similar laws in Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. state of Vermont.
A day earlier, the governing Social Democrats and Greens agreed on a rough outline of a bill that would grant all marriage rights except access to adoption. Opposition conservatives blasted the proposal. The parade ended with a huge dance at the Brandenburg Gate.
"You only see pictures of Israel when rocks are being thrown," marcher Kinneret Golan told AP. "I'm proud that despite everything we can still do this." Marcher Anat Schumaker told reporters: "We're here and they can't do anything to stop us." Canadians Go Marching in Toronto Thousands walked in Toronto's Dyke March June 24 to the tune of Annie Lennox's Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves. "We're from China, we don't have this there," spectator Martin Wang told the Toronto Sun. "We can't understand it." About 500 people marched in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 24. "The last two years we changed significantly, from being militant to seeing the event as a celebration," Pride Day Co-chair Dan MacKay told the Halifax Herald. "We intend to keep moving in that direction." There was a rally at Sackville Landing following the march. |
