Last weekend was also the annual Vancouver Pride Parade when everyone that is or strongly supports being fabulous gets all decked out and marches through downtown Vancouver. Its apparently the largest (or 2nd largest) pride parade in Canada and with all the floats, banners and starts and stops it can be a bit of an endurance contest in the summer heat.
You have officially been living in Vancouver long enough when things like this strike you as awesome rather than odd.
One thing I did find weird about this year which I have not reflected very well in the pictures (having avoided those floats) is that there was a lot more corporate and political floats this year and less naked weirdos. This gave it more of a feeling of "Your corporate masters have realized that this is a lucrative niche market to exploit and would like you to know that Safeway and the Conservative Party think its great that you're gay, and if you'd like to buy our cakes or vote for us, that'd be swell too" than I was used to. I am unsure if having your celebrations sold back to you and commercialized is the truest form of acceptance in western culture or not... it certainly worked for Jesus.
You have officially been living in Vancouver long enough when things like this strike you as awesome rather than odd.
One thing I did find weird about this year which I have not reflected very well in the pictures (having avoided those floats) is that there was a lot more corporate and political floats this year and less naked weirdos. This gave it more of a feeling of "Your corporate masters have realized that this is a lucrative niche market to exploit and would like you to know that Safeway and the Conservative Party think its great that you're gay, and if you'd like to buy our cakes or vote for us, that'd be swell too" than I was used to. I am unsure if having your celebrations sold back to you and commercialized is the truest form of acceptance in western culture or not... it certainly worked for Jesus.
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