Pride (In the Name of *heart*)
By Richard Eriksson on August 2, 2004 - 4:33am
I skipped out of the Vancouver Python Workshop session on basic syntax (well, I made it back for the second half) to watch the Vancouver Pride Parade. I got off the Davie #6 bus and walked from Davie & Denman down to Robson, figuring it would be the fastest way to see everything from when I arrived.
I took several photos of the parade, and I saw that there were many digital cameras out to capture the event, both still and video, and there were a few taking photos with their camera phones. The commercialism of the last part of the prade was a little disappointing: I did not have so much a problem with the workers CIBC and RBC participating ("I work for..." is just as valid a way of identifying yourself as "I prefer the company of..."), but it the floats for the radio stations (one with a young woman in a mermaid getup on the top of the car) and 7-Eleven Slurpee truck seemed more like they were paid to be there rather than really interested in supporting GLBT pride.
Overall, though, the parade was fun, with colourful costumes, elected officials, and masked men. It was the first pride parade that I attended, and I look forward to next year's parade, commercialism and all.
(Title is in obvious reference to the U2 song, but also to A Community With *heart* and make *heart* not war.)
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