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- New Zealand court allows 'boobs on bikes' parade
- WELLINGTON AFP — Topless porn stars are expected to cruise down Auckland's main street on motorbikes on Wednesday after a court said the "Boobs on Bikes" parade was not legally offensive. Bureaucrats in New Zealand's biggest city had called for a court injunction against the event, saying it breached...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Hundreds of thousands throng Stockholm for EuroPride
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Hundreds of thousands of people braved pouring rain in Stockholm Saturday to watch or participate in this year's colourful EuroPride parade to protest discrimination against homosexuals. "It's just marvelous to feel this sense of community, that there are so many other people like you," Mickael Norrell...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Amsterdam turn into one big party for gay pride
- AMSTERDAM AFP — Tens of thousands of people thronged Amsterdam Saturday to watch the city's biggest-ever parade of homosexuals floating flamboyantly down the historic canals in dazzling style. In a festive atmosphere the streets lining the canals and the bridges over them overflowed with members of the gay community,...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Bush, candidates wax patriotic on US Independence Day
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush and White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain marked the US Independence Day holiday Friday with parades, picnics and odes to patriotism. Bush spoke at a ceremony at the home of the third US president, Thomas Jefferson, in Monticello, Virginia,...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Government of Canada to Support Veterans' Participation in Quebec City's 400th Anniversary Parade
- Veterans from Quebec will participate in a parade celebrating Quebec City's 400th anniversary with support from the Government of Canada. The Honourable Greg Thompson, Minister of Veterans Affairs, announced today a contribution to The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 (Trois-Rivieres). Veterans and legionnaires will participate in Quebec City's...
- Research articles 2008-07-02
- India's gays in first nationwide marches
- KOLKATA AFP — Gays, lesbians and transvestites took to the streets of three major Indian cities Sunday in the first nationally coordinated pride marches aimed at overturning a law forbidding homosexuality. In Kolkata in the east, some 400 people took part in the city's annual Gay Pride parade, drawing...
- Research articles 2008-06-29
- Several thousand take part in Jerusalem Gay Pride
- JERUSALEM AFP — About 2,000 people took part in an annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday which passed off without major incident even though it had been the focus of violent controversy in the past. Surrounded by about the same number of police, the marchers set off...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- Rightwingers ask high court to ban Gay Pride in Jerusalem
- JERUSALEM AFP — A rightwing group on Thursday asked the Israeli Supreme Court to ban this year's Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, an annual event that has drawn violent controversy in the Holy City in the past. In a petition to the court, the small National Jewish Front called the...
- Research articles 2008-06-19
- OUR VIEW
- GREENIE MANTRA: MONEY FOR NOTHIN' Why the elite want to save Mother Earth Safe prediction, and you read it here first: The winner of this year's presidential race will be a multi-millionaire environmentalist. Whichever environmentalist wins won't be personally fazed by...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Tens of thousands turn out for Gay Pride in European cities
- ROME AFP — Tens of thousands took to the streets of Athens, Rome and Warsaw for Gay Pride parades Saturday, drawing attention to the fact that many homosexuals in Europe still do not enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. "We have even more reasons to be here today than...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Violence prompts United to call off 'victory' parade
- MANCHESTER, England AFP — Manchester United have postponed plans for a homecoming parade should they capture the Champions League trophy after violence flared in the city following the UEFA Cup final. United face Chelsea in Moscow on Wednesday and were due to parade through the city streets on Thursday...
- Research articles 2008-05-16
- Afghan parliament summons security chiefs over parade attack
- KABUL AFP — Afghanistan's parliament Monday summoned national security leaders for questioning over an attack at a parade that killed three people, including an MP, although President Hamid Karzai survived. The interior and defence ministers and the national intelligence chief were to be questioned Tuesday about the security measures...
- Research articles 2008-04-28
- For him, St. Patrick's Day parade is one long 'labor of love'
- A husband and father, John P. Forbes runs a family business, Colonial Couriers, in Savannah, Ga. But there has to be something a little mad about him. Otherwise, why would the 39-year-old head up the city's St. Patrick's Day parade committee? His mission as general chairman: Keep the line moving....
- Research articles 2008-03-07
- Some 300,000 mark 30th Sydney gay pride parade
- SYDNEY AFP — Some 300,000 people lined the streets of Sydney on Saturday night to watch the largest gay pride parade in the Asia Pacific as the event marked its 30th anniversary, organisers said. Marchers dressed as sequined flight attendants, nuns and beach lifesavers formed part of the march,...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- And Brazil's carnival winner is...
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — A carnival procession that paid extravagant homage to the legends of northern Brazil was Wednesday named the winner of this year's spectacular carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro. The samba school Beija Flor, which presented the glittering floats and armies of dancers right at...
- Research articles 2008-02-06
- Flesh and fantasy take over Brazil's carnival
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazil's traditional carnival parades, those extravagant displays of flesh and fantasy set to a samba rhythm, were to hit their peak late Sunday with a glitzy show in Rio de Janeiro in front of a sold-out crowd. Half of the city's 12 top samba...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Judge bans Holocaust float, 'Hitler' in Rio's carnival
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — A Rio judge Thursday banned a float depicting Holocaust victims and an Adolf Hitler costume due to take part in this weekend's carnival parade, saying they trivialized Nazi atrocities. The carnival "cannot be used as a tool in the cult of hate or for...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- Two dead in Philippines religious parade: police
- MANILA AFP — A woman was crushed to death and a man killed Wednesday during the parade of the 400-year-old "Black Nazarene" in the Philippine capital Manila, police and hospital officials said. At least 20 others were injured as up to 100,000 people packed the streets around Quiapo church...
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- Thousands march in Taipei for gay rights
- TAIPEI AFP — Thousands from Taiwan's gay and lesbian community marched through the streets of Taipei Saturday demanding more rights for homosexuals, organisers said. The parade took a carnival-like mood with marchers waving rainbow flags, colourful balloons and signs. Some were dressed in flamboyant period costumes while others only...
- Research articles 2007-10-13
- Fleet Week to dock in San Francisco
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Fleet Week is back, and it won't just be the Navy's Blue Angels gliding beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Besides the Blue Angels, other teams including Team Oracle and the Air Force's F-16 Demonstration Team will be on hand. Seven vessels...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
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