Here comes the Circus - Montreal Gay Pride Parade 2008

So, since my trip was canceled this weekend, I decided to peruse around the city and enjoy the premium summer time weather (finally!). On Sunday, Montreal was having its annual Gay Pride Parade on Rene Levesque, starting at De Lorimier and heading west ward. It was my first pride parade (I generally don't attend many parades...haha). But hey, why not.

Anyways, it was actually pretty fun. The theme for this year, or at least according to the Pride website was "Here comes the Circus". There were quite a few floats with that theme - Sky, Mado, BDSM (I dunno the official name, but they seemed like some kinda sinister circus...probably one of the coolest actually). There were also people doing choreographed dances...Cowboys, men with pompoms, social dance group and to a certain extent the Lebanese gay/lesbian/bi/trans association.

TD had their own float and IBM made an appearance. They also gave out stickers saying "Smile if you're gay!". Marching around were also gay parents with kids, topless lesbians and general randomness all around. Oh yeah, Stephane Dion was there (he waved to us), as well as some members of the NDP. :P

I took quite a few pictures (I'll post a few :D) and also made a video about it (rather than loading all the videos I took, I figured a little compilation would be kinda cool).










Here's the video: