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1« justput JULY 20.2007 world cWe&teid& INTERNATIONAL Pride Celebrated Worldwide Our professionals will arrange your delivery YOUR DOMESTIC PARTNER (503) 642-9992 Don Duncan owner Teleflora 1-800-356-1884 Aloha Market Centre 20455 SW TV Highway www.westsideflorist.net The annual Europride parade, held this year in Madrid, Spain, saw a turnout of more than 1 mil lion people June 30. A four-day festival that start ed June 27 offered 200 cultural, sports and party events. Marchers set off from the Puerta de Alcala and headed down Alcalá Street and Gran Via to the Plaza de España. The theme was “Now Europe! Equality Is Possible.” Activists singled out Poland for special criti cism, and about 100 people staged a demonstration prior to the parade at the Polish Embassy. Recurring homophobic statements and actions by the nation’s president and prime minister, who are twin broth ers, has angered equality advocates continent wide. 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A concert followed in Trafalgar Square, where Livingstone and his kids appeared onstage along with out Member of Parliament Angela Eagle, the new junior treasury minister, and Labour Party Deputy Leader Harriet Harman, the new minister for women, whose responsibilities include gay rights issues. Mexico City Mexico City held its annual parade June 30, too. About 200,000 people marched, and 300,000 spectators cheered them on. “Loudspeakers on the floats blasted dated gay material from Madonna to Cher, but I was encour aged to note some more culturally thoughtful floats with transgendered mariachi bands...and drag queens all dressed as Frida Kahlo with a bad hang over,” said San Diegan Fergal O’Doherty, who is learning Spanish in Mexico this summer. O’Doherty said “loads of other protesters for various anti-government causes joined in the parade,” including a group of 800 indigenous men from Veracruz who danced naked on the Angel of Independence monument. “The parade was supposed to be done and assembled for the party in the zócalo [central square) at 2 p.m., but it wasn’t done until 5:45,” O’Doherty said. “Then the fun really got serious. Some boy band badly lip-synced a song, and hun dreds of teeny-hopper girls screamed and mobbed the stage. Then seven or eight very high-quality punk-rock and basic rock bands took the stage, and we had a grand time.” O’Doherty said the gay district, the Zona Rosa, was still so crowded at 2 a.m. “that we couldn’t get into any bars.” Santo Domingo, Cochabamba, Guayaquil, Panama City Queers gathered June 28 at Duarte Park in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for their second annual Pride rally. Dozens of lesbians showed up first, with rain bow flags, posters and pamphlets, said El Diario, then some gay' men arrived “several hours later.’.’ The paper ran a photo of women wearing T-shirts that said, “I am lesbian because 1 like it and that’s what 1 want.” Cochabamba, Bolivia, saw its first Pride cele bration June 28 in the form of a fair in the city’s main square, reported Los Tiempos. The city’s first Pride march followed June 30. There was “an over flow of glamour, joy, luxury, color and respect” as thousands of Cochabambinos danced their way from the Plaza of the Flags to Columbus Plaza, the newspaper said. 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