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Based on your photos, I think we were standing on opposite sides of the street. Small world, great parade! But yeah, it was freakin' hot.
OH goodness me. LOL.. This is funny. They would never allow that here in WI as far as I know. Hope you had fun though besides the expensive water. LOL.. Have a great day.
Ahhhh you got to go! Lucky you! My husband would not be seen anywhere near Toronto in Pride week! He is very homophobic and even the suggestion of going to just hang out and watch creates friction in our house. I have a couple of gay friends and a couple of times a year the girls and I will head out to the karaoke bars with them and have a blast...hubby stays home!
So sad about the little penis' I would have expected more too! LOL
I'm miffed, I missed two of my favorite parades in NYC last weekend to go to Pittsburgh for my mom's birthday. In addition to Pride, I also missed the Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. Which is a lot like the Pride parade, actually, but featuring a lot more "ocean" theme and a lot less condoms.
I went to my Parade (my brohter is a card carrying member of "the club" as he says.) to show my pride for him and everyone. It was just about the best parade I've seen in a long time. Better than Santa because even if I didn't get candy canes, I got pretty beads.
It's all pretty ridiculous if you think about it. Mysterious man who parents allow into their houses late at night, who "loves" children (reminds me of Michael Jackson really) or nudity and open sexual orientations in public.
You get better freebies at a gay pride parade than at any other parade! I vote pride parade!
I remember witnessing the gay pride parade here in Calgary. I though it was a Caribbean Fest parade until I say the guys in the leather and chains. Then I though...ok
Oh dahlin', once again your eloquence and observational skills leave me in awe. Love the photos!
Our pride parade isn't til end of July/beginning of August (it's a weeklong party, so I'm not sure of the exact date) and my part of the city always has a howl.
Also, our parade almost always starts with the attitudinally-enhanced dykes on bikes (that's what they call themselves) and ends with.. well actually I'm not sure what they end with... Now I'm curious.
I have never been to a gay pride parade. I should think about going, though I doubt the one in Idaho is as spectacular as that one obviously is. 
Too funny!
I always tell myself I'm going to go down there for it .. and I never make it.
I love the pride parade. Personally, I find far more festive than any Christmas parade!
damn! I want to be invited next time *pouty face*
Very interesting. That would never fly in Alabama. I am going to Key West in October for Fantasy Fest. I might even get some body painting done!
I've only been once to a Gay Pride Parade, it was in Paris, on the large avenue outside my flat; I loved the costumes and almost wanted to join in.
If only the Mummers parade in Philly was more like this ...
I've been in Toronto for 20 years and STILL haven't celebrated Pride 
The last couple of years I've been cruising around Toronto Harbour.
I went the to the pride parade in Atlanta a few years. It's hilarious and really, really gay.
Well, if the Mummers parade were like this, it would have to move to the summer...
but I digress. When I lived in SF--Best. Pride Parade. Ever.
Here? Not so much.
They're HERE, they're QUEER. We're used to it!
To each his own.
Its nice to see social outcasts enjoy themselves. Sydney Australia has its annual Gay Madi gras too.
Great post.
So disappointing about the travel size privates (My god - does the guy in the white undies even HAVE a package?) but it sounds like a fun time.
A rite of Summer...the gay pride parade...around here...that's how you know Summer has started.
Great pics.
Jolynn - Toronto hosts Canada's largest pride festivities. I've also been to the country's smallest - believe me, the small ones are a friggin hoot too!
The christmas/gay pride analogy is not one I've heard before - but we dont' have much in the way of parades here. Sounds like fun, apart from the heat stroke!
"Quiznos uniform involved orange feathers and sequins "...as if the probability of getting hair in one's sandwich isn't enough to have to deal with! 
Funny that you posted this now.
My in-laws are in San Francisco with several other family members, and happened to be there during the big Gay Pride parade. Some of them went, but I'll be they didn't take a single picture.
I can just use yours a susbstitute -- but I'll bet the SF parade was gayer.
Don't we live in an amazing country?
Looks like fun. I can't remember the last parade to which I went (thanks to never being in the proximity of one worth attending)
How fun! The gay pride parade for fashion ques and the Christmas parade for consumerism.
you meet the nicest people at gay pride parades. i don't think i've ever seen a bunch of shriners marching in a pride parade.
Canada rocks....didn't the Gay Pride and the Sikh Pride run the same day?
eeew gay parades.yuk.
The parts on parade were mostly small and disappointing? It's odd that you almost got heat stroke on such a cold day.
I would love to see that in person! And thanks for the pics.
I've been to the one in SF on several occasions... always festive if nothing else.
BTW... I have a couple of recommendations for the upcoming Toronto Fringe over on my latest post.
An interesting collection of photographic evidence. I have to wonder when it will (or if it will ever) be my turn to ride on a float in my underwear. I feel cheated.
Certainly looks like it was a fun and obscure day.
i've done the santa claus parade but you'd never catch me at the gay pride, too many freaks if you ask me. i did hear that there were alot more "naked" men there this year, not quite sure how they get away with that?
I've never seen that much support for a gay pride parade, even in SF!
Oh, it looks alot like the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, well with alot more skin. I like the liberal lean of Canada though or even more the fact that you can have a liberal lean if you want.
I. Love. Canada!! I'm glad you went Jay, we had ours here recently but I never made it.
Happy Canada Day hon!
Makes me sad that my town doesn't have a gay pride parade, they look like fun!
I'm thinking of starting a Straight Guilt Parade but I'm guessing no one would show--except for me and the rest of my repressed friends.
And I suppose it would be more of a semi-organized loiter than a parde.
Yes, come to the Straight Guilt Loiter--and don't forget to bring your regrets!
I envy you this, Jay. The freedom of expression, the lack of fear. I live so far under the Bible Belt that folks get deeply offended when a woman bares a breast at the local Mardi Gras parade. Gay Pride? Down here that's an oxymoron.
Jay! You inspire me. Pride parade in Seattle was awesome. I've got to get a photo or two up!
When Sarah was in BC a little while ago, she caught the Pride parade whil there. The crowd was whooping it up, and cheering there asses off the whole time... until the Conservative Party of Canada's car came by. She said the whole street just feel into a stony silence. Awesome.
Gay or not, like you showed, it just looks FUN.
Someday, I hope to bid adiue to an old guy in a yellow sundress.
There certainly aren't enough "wet people" in the parades I see down in the South. Shame. And I sort of half-mean that.
Damn I miss all the good parades!
We poor fools who live in the Souther part of the Bible belt never get to indulge in such wonderful goings on. The last time I saw a gay pride anything was in Key West
What great fun. I'm trying to imagine that happening down here in conservative republican redneck country. Probably too dangerous in a state where you can only buy one handgun a month.
How incredibly fun!! We don't get fun parades like that in Nebraska.
I was waiting for a "north pole" joke somewhere in your post.
Wow... the things you see when you don't have your gun....
Looked like a colorful event.....
But was wondering...... do the guys start out to be in the gay lifestyle or do they just kinda get sucked into it????
Keep on writing Jay.. It's ALL entertaining......
Boy, I wish that we had such a great parade in our town! Living here in Uptight Town, USA, we don't get much of this and have to go into the city for that kind of thing.
oh those are some seriously shiny bodies.
i think i need to go and lie down
am i the only one that is, "used to it"?
okay, you're gay, fine. i'm proud to be straight! there's no carnival for me!
;o)
aren't both Sant and Fairies imaginary creatures?
I love gay parades and I'm thinking of going to the one in Zurich in August - however, without seeing too many back spots.
My comment got eaten...I was saying that I went to the parade last year, and something about how the residents of b-town are too Conservative to host a pride parade. What a shame.
those photos make me happy! thanks!
i love u goaty ur so cute
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