This year I noticed an application for accreditation on the Pride Toronto web site and decided to apply, and was approved.
So, Sunday morning, I was on the road just after 5:00 a.m. and arrived at the Media Registration tent at 9:30, received my media pass, and was set for the day.
I then went and parked my vehicle and proceeded up Yonge Street, stopping at a Starbucks (for a White Hot Chocolate) where the Pride Spirit was in full swing. I then carried on up Yonge Street to Rosedale Valley Road (the marshaling area for the floats) as was my usual routine for taking pictures at Pride.
Just before 2:00 p.m., I made my way to Bloor & Yonge and maneuvered my way through the crowd and the barricade to get a vantage point facing east on Bloor (from whence the Parade will come.)
All is going great getting more good pictures, changing batteries and finally changing the flash card when it indicates that it is full (with over 250 images).
Near the end of the Parade there is a pause in the progression of the activities, so I decide to make my way south on Yonge (to be closer to my vehicle when the Parade wraps up).
With the Parade over, I'm back on the road heading home, arriving at 10:30 p.m. (a bloody long day) an too tired to even think of checking the pictures.
Monday morning arrives and I decide to check my achievements, only to discover that I have lost the first flash card. It either fell out of (or was taken out of) the bag I had laying on the road, and was occasionally move to avoid being run over by one of the transports turning the corner. To say I was depressed is an understatement and the reason it has taken me this long to get this page posted.
With that said, here are the last 62 images I acquired from the 2010 Pride Parade in Toronto.
That was until about a week ago when I was doing some re-organizing and found a plastic bag with a shirt in it and the missing flash card. The last 62 pictures are from the second flash card that I never got around to posting, so here are all 320 unedited pictures.
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A couple, obviously going to the Pride Parade, stopping for refreshments at the Yonge & St. Charles Starbucks.
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City workers putting the barricades in place along
Bloor Street East at 10:20 a.m., and the
Parade doesn’t start until 2:00 p.m.
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A couple of American Dykes on Bikes waiting in the shade
at 10:40 a.m.
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They were heading back State side as soon as
the Parade was over.
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The following pictures are as I wandered along the
Rosedale Valley Road (the marshaling area for the floats).
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The END of the float marshaling area.
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York Federation of Students |
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Is this an election year?
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www.fagbug.com |
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Back on Church Street for a lunch break
and rest my feet,
I see another
visiting Dyke Biker
and these
lovely Ladies.
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Then a quick walk down to the Valley...
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For a couple more pictures...
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Before heading back to Bloor Street to find a location inside the barricade...
remember, I have a
MEDIA PASS!
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The steps of the RBC Financial Group building.
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And here comes
The Parade!
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The media and the spectators.
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Once again, the following pictures prove that not
all men
are created equal!
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She doesn’t believe her eyes, so she is not looking. |
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Now on to more
sedate viewing.
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No comment. |
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Rev. Brent Hawkes
MCC Toronto |
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In 1974 I was kicked OUT just for being gay...
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Now the military is marching IN Gay Pride Parades.
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In 1981 the police raided our bath houses...
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In 2010 the police march in our parades.
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GO FIGURE! |
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This is the end of the MISSING flash card and the beginning of the only flash card I founf that fateful Monday morning... And I’m leaving it in the same layout as I started back in July. |
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The Fire Department
occasionally let loose
with a fine mist spray
of water into the air.
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A number of couples
were being married
as the Parade progressed
down Yonge Street.
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The end of the Parade has passed
and the Police Cycle Unit attempts
to hold back the crowd/spectators
from proceeding towards
Church Street...
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and an evening
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of partying,
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but not for long...
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It has been a long day and I’m dog tired.
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By Ottawa standards, this picture makes it an Official Pride Parade.
If Ottawa didn’t have at least one religious protestor,
we didn’t think it was an official parade.
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