Justin trudeau gay pride

Lisa is a traveler, photographer and pharmacist. She and her partner Cheryl MacDonald enjoy sharing inspiration and good health with fellow travelers! Different Gates. Really it was an awesome article…very interesting to read. The Vancouver Gay Pride March! What a fun and exciting day!

Can you make it to our office before we close today at 5pm? Public transport in Vancouver is a dream to those of us who live without access to it at home. Bus to Skytrain and we were downtown with plenty of time to spare. Meeting the huge, enthusiastic crew of the Vancouver Pride Society was a treat and we knew we were in for a great time on Sunday for the parade!

We planned what to wear and got ready for the heat wave 81 F expected for parade day. One more serendipitous event on Saturday led Cheryl see the pattern here? Of course we were there early, so that meant walking the rainbow gauntlet of colorful parade floats in the staging areas. That diversity was visibly represented by the more than parade floats ready to take to the streets.

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Finally we found a small area at the front of the pride route that was cordoned off and went to ask. There were only about 20 of us there — mostly Canadian TV and Internet, we were the only people from the United States. Thankfully we had a shady spot as it was starting to get warm before the 12 noon parade start.

Justin Trudeau arrived right on time and took a few questions with the local reporters with lots of smiles thrown in. He looked as though he was thoroughly enjoying himself. Bets were made among the other journalists as to just how long the PM would be walking in the parade…2 blocks? Maybe 3? His staffers quickly put that question to rest as they confirmed trudeau would be walking the entire route and so would we!

Our only direction was that we were to keep between the float just ahead of us and the PM and his entourage — and to justin lots and lots of pictures along the way! Before we knew the parade was off and we were running backwards backwards!! This was about the time that we realized we were walking in the Vancouver Pride Parade and what an honor that was this was also our first time EVER walking in a Pride Parade!

I know because I was walking just in front of him much of the time to get photos and could see and hear the crowds roar when they first saw him. It was so exciting! Of course gay every politician is going to be popular with everyone and every politician is human — but what a refreshing change to see so many positive and enthusiastic people wanting to shake his hand or have a photo with the PM.