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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.
The marchers included politicians, union lead
ers and federal Minister of Culture Carmen Calvo.
The city of Madrid supported the event with
$136,000 in funding.
Spain is one of six nations where same-sex
couples have access to full civil marriage.
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The same day as Europride, some 700,000 peo
ple took part in Paris’ Gay Pride parade, including
openly gay Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. The theme
was “We Will Not Compromise on Equality.”
Organizers demanded access to civil marriage,
saying France’s civil union law doesn’t provide the
same rights and benefits.
London also held its parade June 30, in a down
pour. Tens of thousands, including Mayor Ken
Livingstone and his two young children, joined the
celebration despite the weather.
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
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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.
The report added: “According to the partici
pants in this parade, Cochabamban homosexuals
were capable of taking on great risk to march
because the satisfaction of feeling recognized and
admired as women is so important to them that any
sacrifice is worth it.”
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The Zona Rosa gay district was packed with revelers during Mexico City's Pride events.