Over 10,000 Attend Stockholm Gay Pride
August 2, 2008 by James Hipps
With rainbow flags on buildings and buses for more than a week, it was hard to miss Stockholm’s gay pride festival. On Saturday, about 45,000 people showed up for the finale, a downtown march.
Some 450,000 people lined the route, police and organizers said. The annual march was held for the first time in 1977.
“I’ve never seen it before,” said Leila Hammouda, a 39-year-old Stockholmer whose father comes from Algeria. “I’m sure they would never permit this in Algeria.”
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