Vancouver Pride Parade 2012: Photos & Tweets
byAn estimated 600,000 people are expected to line the streets in downtown Vancouver today for the Vancouver Pride Parade celebrating diversity, culture, community, and family. Music, dancing, colourful floats, motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, stilt-walkers, children, parents, dogs, and a multitude of mascots filled the streets. The following photos and updates have been pulled from Twitter as the parade takes place:
Happy Pride
#Vancouver! Enjoy sunshine – celebrate diversity!@vancouverpride#vanpride— Gregor Robertson (@MayorGregor) August 5, 2012
Ready to march with
@cknw in the#VanPride parade@simisara980 &@jessicagares980 instagr.am/p/N9TfQ3RGbW/— Melissa Knight (@missmelissa_k) August 5, 2012
I can die now. Me with Manny and Jason!!!
@vancanucks#VanPride twitter.com/GayCanuck/stat…— GayCanuck (@GayCanuck) August 5, 2012
Bert and Ernie at
#vanprideinstagr.am/p/N9VA2iMH3j/— Yuri Artibise (@YuriArtibise) August 5, 2012
Lawyers, law firms and law students out showing their support!
#humantrights#VanPride twitter.com/keara_jane/sta…— Keara Maguire (@keara_jane) August 5, 2012
So great to see kids at (clean) pride events. Great to know their parents are raising them to be tolerable, decent human beings.
#vanpride— Fanta Sesay (@fntcypnts) August 5, 2012
Lawyers and judges with pride at
#Vanpride twitter.com/habdessamad/st…— Dr. Hasan Abdessamad (@habdessamad) August 5, 2012
#VanPride#Celebrities always the best float!!!’ twitter.com/missrsmitty/st…— Robyn Smitty (@missrsmitty) August 5, 2012
So proud of Malhotra, Harrison & Burke at
#VanPride –@vancanucks&@youcanplayteam Unbelievable support & superb MSG! twitter.com/2001bottles/st…— Bob Halifax (@2001bottles) August 5, 2012
New Brunswick flag in
#Vanpride@tazeelu@moirajmcmahon twitter.com/habdessamad/st…— Dr. Hasan Abdessamad (@habdessamad) August 5, 2012
MP of
#Vancouver center@hedyfry: “I’m excited to be celebrating my 20th consecutive year in@vancouverpride parade.”#Vanpride— Dr. Hasan Abdessamad (@habdessamad) August 5, 2012
Blue beads for all!! “
@londondrugs: And we are ready to rock!!#Vancouver#PRIDE twitpic.com/afx3v7“— Wendy Hartley (@WendyHartley) August 5, 2012
Just be a queen
#vanpride instagr.am/p/N9XFoHomQX/— Danielle Libonati (@dd_l) August 5, 2012
Drop by the
@visionvancouver tent at#vanpride for your very own proud banana! twitter.com/pattibacchus/s…— pattibacchus (@pattibacchus) August 5, 2012
It seemed as if the
#vanpride parade was over, but a volunteer just ran down the street shouting “the parade’s not over” …— Larissa Cahute (@larissacahute) August 5, 2012
#VanPride parade is well underway! Look, there’s Green MP@elizabethmay in her DOUBLE feather boa.#canqueer#canpoli lockerz.com/s/231592540— Michael Pihach (@michaelpihach) August 5, 2012
Love is where is at
#vanpride twitter.com/MetropolisatMe…— Metropolis(@MetropolisatMet) August 5, 2012
BC’s labour and student unions march together in solidarity.
#vanpride twitter.com/nealjennings/s…— Neal Jennings (@nealjennings) August 5, 2012
Couple tents at
#sunsetbeach!#vanpride#vancouver twitter.com/jknoregrets/st…— Jamie Keast (@jknoregrets) August 5, 2012
Live shots sher bollywood float
@jawanikijhatka@globalbc@vancouverpride@gayvancouver@mygayhusband@ctvbc#vanpride twitter.com/a_slam/status/…— DJ A-SLAM (@a_slam) August 5, 2012
Happy
#vanpride to our friends@vancouverpride. Congrats on another fabulous#Pride— SurreyPrideSociety (@SurreyPride) August 5, 2012
Here comes The Bicycle Shop
#vanpride twitter.com/larissacahute/…— Larissa Cahute (@larissacahute) August 5, 2012
Enjoying my first
@vancouverpride#VanPride parade and the sun is out twitter.com/RideTheKtrain/…— Nicholas Kowalik (@RideTheKtrain) August 5, 2012
Happy
#vanpride from@ctvbc@coleensdish@aamerhaleem@tamarataggart@mike_kileen@ctvlyndasteele twitter.com/ctvethanfaber/…— Ethan Faber (@ctvethanfaber) August 5, 2012
Vote for the best entry (float, organization, display, etc.) in this year’s parade by going to VotePride.ca. For more event listings and happenings check out Gay Vancouver’s Pride Guide.
More photos will be published when the parade wraps up later today, around 3:00pm. You can submit your images to the Miss604 Flickr Pool for possible feature as well.
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I had a great time there and my best part of the day was having a chance to take a photo with Jenna Talackova. She is amazing! Also, greetings so many people, but she made every single one of us feel special.
http://fantasystockings.com/jessica-and-jenna-talackova-posing-together/
I love the vibrant streets of this wonderful city. Watching the pictures what immediately came to my mind was a collection of 20 photos documenting Vancouver’s history that I recently saw in the West Vancouver Archives. It’s just amazing to observe the feel of the city streets now and then and to compare the buildings that have sometimes undergone major transformations as the years passed by.