Gay Pride in Reykjavik takes place 4-7 August this year. It is an amazing festival enjoyed by hundreds of gay and 50.000 non-gay people.
The Gay Parade in Reykjavik takes place on Saturday and starts from the BSI long distance bus station for the first time. The reason why the parade does not start at the top of Laugavegur, Reykjavik's main shopping street, is because the procession has become too big and floats have become too many and too large for the small street.
Participants in the Gay Parade spend days, even weeks and months, preparing for the event. Dressed in colourful and often shiny and glittering outfits they dance to the music rhythm played on a mobile music system carried on several floats.
Gay Prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime minister in Iceland since May 2009 and the first openly gay Prime minister in the world, proposed a bill for same sex marriages in Iceland. The law took effect in 2010.
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ReplyDeleteThe gay pride festivities in Reykjavík, organized by the board and pride committee of the organization, have been a marvellous success since 1999. A huge, merry and colourful gay parade through the centre of town and a grand outdoor concert attended by over seventy thousand people lesbians and gay men, bisexuals and transgender people, friends, relatives, fellow citizens and numerous foreign visitors. Thanks a lot.....
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