London Gay Pride

30th June 2007 – Gay Pride Parade, London

The weather was awful (as it always seems to be these days), but rain, and all these crazy terror alerts in the city weren’t going to stop these glamorous gays from doin’ their thang!

I got there as preparations were taking place

One word for the guy below – ‘lol’.

This guy was just standing in the street munching on an apple. Quite odd, but funny. Although I was quite close to him when I took this, he didn’t even seem to notice

Hmm, not sure what’s going on here!

Representing the wonderful National Health Service

Screwed up on focus on this next one – arghhh

This next one needs a full-view. I love it. He had such a snazzy wheelchair – it even had a DVD player in it

It had that awful crazy frog thing on the front though – but it looks cute here eh!

Amusingly, there were Muslims present

Taking pictures of them was a different story – this guy was hiding from my camera so I asked him why he was being shy.

He just laughed and one of their crew said some participants didn’t want to be photographed. I told him it was highly likely people would try to take pictures of them. I mean, come on – it’s a Gay Pride event which Muslims are taking part in – who isn’t going to try to take pictures of them! If you don’t want/expect to be photographed, don’t take part : ) Still, I respected their wishes.

I randomly bumped into Pinky who was stewarding

How anyone can walk in these without breaking a leg, I have no idea

Hm, I wonder if he works for Fairy Liquid.

More funky shoes

Rarrr

More fancy footwear

Ahem.

I wondered if these guys were models and whether they were even gay.

Before I took this shot the one on the right grabbed my arm and asked me to pose with them for pictures – I resisted and told him I’d ruin the picture. After all, I don’t think the tourists taking the shots would really want me in it. He didn’t care though and carried on insisting so I thought why the hell not! He winked at me and said ‘thanks darling’.

These guys were very cool as well – I took a whole bunch of shots of them as you’ll see further down. I loved their expressions

Check out this sari!

Love it.

These guys were fab. The following shots are of the actual moving parade, as opposed to when it was stationary during preparations.

Someone was a bit miserable

The person below was posing for me but I must have accidentally hit the timer button on the camera so of course as I tried to click it started the countdown, and I was left wondering why I couldn’t take any pictures. He said he’d wait for me as I figured it out but as you can see, by the time I got around to taking the shot, he was getting kinda bored and had lost the enthusiasm!

The parade was so much fun despite the heavy rain. I’m getting quite tired of all this rain – I went to Amsterdam last week and it poured for more or less the entire time. It was still an amazing and hugely fun experience. Expect a blog soonish.. I have over 500 pictures to look through