Toronto to Host 2014 World Pride Event

Toronto has been chosen as the host for an international celebration of gay rights in 2014.

As with many local Gay Pride events, World Pride includes an agenda of events including a parade, festivals and cultural activities, and it promotes awareness of the LGBT community and issues, but does so at the international level.

The first World Pride event was held in Rome in 2000 and the 2006 World Pride was suppose to be hosted in Jerusalem, but was canceled due to an Israeli-Lebanese conflict.

The next World pride is set to be held in 2012 in London.

To learn more about World Pride, click here to visit the official site.

Gunfight Causes Stampede During Atlanta Black Gay Pride

Sundays in Piedmont Park are an enduring tradition at Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride. The APD estimates up to one thousand people were in the park on Sunday, peacefully gathering at cookouts and dancing while DJs played dance music and hip-hop. Last night’s gunfight and arrests were the only reported major disturbances over the holiday weekend.

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Security Keeps Budapest Gay Pride Safe

Yesterday’s Gay Pride march in Budapest was kept violence free, unlike previous years thanks to a beefed up security force which managed to keep anti-gay extremists under control.

According to a post on UK Gay News:

September 5, 2009 – More than 2,000 people took part in Budapest’s “Gay Dignity” march this afternoon. And the rain that was supposed to have dampened the march stayed away, replaced by brilliant sunshine.

There here was not a protester in sight, thanks to a massive security operation in the Hungarian capital.

But as marchers assembled in Heroes Square, on man, aged in his mid-40s, is believed to have infiltrated the heavy, but discrete, security.

He was seen popping balloons and trying to snatch flags that marchers had.

“He came up to me because I was carrying a small pink Union Flag,” Anthony Daley from England told UK Gay News.

“I didn’t understand what he was saying, but it soon became obvious that he was trying to snatch the flag and rip it up.

“He wasn’t being forceful or aggressive, so no one really noticed him until he popped a couple of balloons that someone was carrying. The sound of balloons popping made others realise what was happening. He tried to pop further balloons and was then booed by onlookers which frightend him away.”

Neo-Nazi’s and other extreme right-wing groups had threatened to disrupt the march. But, while there were a few scuffles for the police to deal with, they were at least 100 metres from the route of the march.

There was, however, a ‘price to pay’, apart from the nervousness of the Budapest gay community.

Please Share Your Gay Pride Photos

Gayagenda.com would is in the process of putting together a “photo album” of Gay Pride events around the world.  No matter where you live, no matter which event you attended, gayagenda.com would like to have you send us your photos to share with the rest of our readers.  Please send any photos you would like to share, along with the location of the event and commentary (if any) you would like to accompany the photos to james@vibemedia.net.

Thank you in advance and we look forward to receiving your pics!

Liza Spends Gay Pride in Gay Paree

Liza Minnelli spent Gay Pride in Paris this year where she talked about the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and how that also commemorates the death of her mother, Judy Garland. Check it out.

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