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After a week long celebration of the Vancouver Pride Week 2011 of the Gay, Lesbian, LGBT & LGBTTQ lifestyles, the people of Vancouver capped it all off with a Pride Parade 2011 along Robson and Denman street. At Vancouver21.com, we proudly dubbed the festivities as GAY AND THE CITY which started on July 25th with a Vancouver City Hall official kickoff of events that included the raising of the Rainbow Flag and a proclamation by Mayor Gregor Robertson together with Vancouver’s very own gay personality Joan-E, former MP Bill Siksay and other lesbian and gay activists such as Ken Coolen, Ron Dutton and L.A. gay pioneer Pat Rocco who launched the world’s very first gay parade in the early 1970s. At the same time, the city also launched the 2nd annual North America Out Games being held concurrently with the Vancouver Pride Week. On July 31, 2011, the Vancouver Pride Parade took place in the downtown and West End areas. Hundreds of thousands of spectators and participants heeded the call to join the street party.

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Vancouver Pride Society President Ken Coolen and other dignitaries in the LGBT, LGBTTQ and gay communities and sponsors such as Telus, TD Bank etc. hosted the Vancouver Gay Pride Week 2011 Media Launch. To mark the occasion, Mayor Gregor Robertson declared a Gay Pride Week 2011 proclamation on the steps of the Vancouver City Hall on July 25, 2011.

The very first Gay Pride parade was founded by Pat Rocco in L.A. and he was honored as this year’s Vancouver Gay Pride Week Grand Marshall together with Vancouver very own Gay personality Joan-E, former MP Bill Siksay and the late AIDS Vancouver co-founder Bob Tivey.

With members of the media and the public standing by, Vancouver also kicked off the 2nd annual North America Out Games while a number of flag-runners making the round within the city to promote the event. Later, Coast Salish chief Dennis Joseph performed a First Nations welcome ceremony. Then, the Out Games flag was hoisted. The final raising of the Rainbow Flag completed the day’s event.

The Vancouver Pride Week starts from July 25th and runs through the whole week and cumulates on July 31st with a Gay Pride Parade along Robson and Denman street in the West End of the city. The North America Out Games also commences on Monday (July 25th) and ends on Sunday July 31st.

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VANCOUVER GAY AND THE CITY!

It’s official! Vancouver is once again celebrating Gay Pride. All are invited and this year it is going to be a week-long affair.

Vancouver’s gay parade is one of North America’s largest and certainly most colorful one around. Everyone let their feelings all hang out and have some fun while celebrating our differences.

This year, the City of Vancouver officiated it as a Gay Pride WEEK for a week long festivities aimed at gays, lesbians, homosexuals, LGBT, transvestites, tv, transgender, queer, dikes etc., but enjoyed by everyone. All the rainbow colors of every stripe Pink especially.

The Pride Week 2011 will start on July 25, 2011 Monday with a Pride Media Launch and East Side Pride and will end on July 31, 2011 with a Pride Parade at 12PM. Once again, the parade will begin at Robson & Bute and continue along Denman until it hit English Bay where everyone will be greeted by the Sunset Beach Pride Festival.

Here’s what they say at the Vancouver Pride web site –

At Pride, we celebrate for those who continue to fight for liberation around the world. We dance for those who can’t dance with Pride, we sing for those who are silenced and oppressed. We celebrate with you and for you.

Thank you and Amen!

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