Happy 4th of July everyone. I'm still up here in Toronto, where we celebrated Canada Day on Tuesday--it's like the 4th only Canadian, totally cute. Since it was a Tuesday, that meant a 4-day weekend, during which GAY PRIDE, just happened to fall.
Pride here is HUGE. The only bigger one I've seen is San Francisco. Luckily the parade marches right past my window, so I have a pretty good view, albeit from 16 stories up.
It started with the traditional Dykes on Bikes.
It doesn't look that crowded from here, but either side of the street is 6-7 people deep... and this goes for at least a mile. Note how even this crowd is organized. Canadians are polite that way.
Gay people doing everyday things is a theme in all parades. Gays who are lawyers, gays who sell real estate, gays who collect garbage. Here are some gays who ride bicycles.
A gay cowboy.
Apparently upset with the media.
Lots of shirtless hunky boys with banners.
Lots of boys in dresses.
Hot Trojans.
So check out my totally hot neighbor on the right. Droool. Six floors down in the next building over. I'm stalking him. We are going to meet and fall in love.
Let's get in closer.
Shit! Caught! Actually I don't even really know what his face looks like. If I ran into him on the street I probably wouldn't know him.
Gays on scooters.
Gays who enjoy the sun.
So apparently the two shirtless dudes in front caused some sort of incident and are being arrested. The cops chased them, grabbed them and the parade stopped momentarily. It was all very dramatic.
Since there were barriers on either side of the street, they actually had to march in the parade while under arrest to the next street down.
I call them Neverland Ranch trains. I don't know what they're for, but they're in every parade.
Here's the view from my other window.
It's a very long flag.
I went down to the street level once I was nice and drunk.
Avenue Q was all over the place.
People climbed on top of anything to get a good view.
It looks so much more crowded when you're down in it.
They lined the tops of buildings.
The parade marches right past Tom Cruise's church.
I see you peeking, Scientologists! And so does Xenu.
Eat your heart out Scientologists!
Eat your heart out Jesse Helms!
This is about two hours into the fucking thing.
Afterwards, all these people went to Church street and looked and booths, bought funny hats and funnel cakes and drank and drank and drank.
Even here in Canada Obama's popular.
Wait, that's the Jerey Boys guy with a repaint.
Until next time. Happy 4th!