Gay Pride 2007

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Gay Pride 2007: Sour faces

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Acidulous tourists outside a hotel. Faces like this were, fortunately, few and far between.

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Gay Pride 2007: Bears

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The most bear-faced (sorry) of all the many bears. There’s been an exponential increase in the bear category since 2000, as some of these photographs indicate. Cynically, this is a marketing miracle, in that it’s managed to transform overweight hairy men who look more like American rednecks than anything else into something worthy of desire on a massive scale. But it’s also a reminder that the movement is, as we used to say about the labour party, a broad church, with room for everyone. Which is far more important.

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Gay Pride 2007

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Gay Pride 2007

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Gay Pride 2007; Parents

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Two people on the gay parents’ association float, one of the most applauded. A woman in her sixties was hurling kisses and crying at the same time.

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Gay Pride 2007

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Back to work on Monday….

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Gay Pride 2007

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