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On Saturday, more than 18.000 People celebrated the Gay Pride March for more tolerance in Johannesburg.
On this Saturday, more than 18.000 people demonstrated on Africa’s biggest Gay Pride Celebration in Johannesburg, the organizers informed. In most of the countrys on the african continent, gays and lesbians are getting discriminated and persecuted.
South-Africa is one of the most forward-looking countrys on the continent, which is based on the fact that same- sex marriage and anti-discrimination protections are legal in this country. Organiser Luiz de Barros told AFP: “We are aware of the fact that LGBT people across Africa are being arrested, their human rights are under threat and it’s a growing phenomenon on the continent.
On this Sunday, one person were killed and 17 detained at the Juiz de Fora gay pride festival in Brazil.
The gay pride parade in the brazilian city Juiz de Fora started like every other gay pride parade but was ending in a tragedy. According to the brazilian police the gay pride in the brasilian city Juiz de Fora started normaly, until some people began to shoot.
While the gay pride parade took place in Juiz de Fora, a fight between rival gangs started. The two rival gangs fought for areas to sell their drugs. At this fight a teenager was shot to death, so the brazilian police. About 70.000 people celebrated the gay pride, when the teenager was shot at the beginning of the parade, 17 people were detained, including the suspects in the shooting, so the police.
In Tokyo the Gay Tokyo Pride took place this weekend and it seems like it was a bang of a party.
The Gay Pride Parade includes the pride parade on Saturday and a lot of partys on the whole weekend and for the big ending, there will be a festival on Sunday in the city’s gay district, Shinjuku.
Japan is one of the morge conservative countrys in the world, and so many gay Japanese are still afraid of coming out in front of their parents and family. “I lead two separate lives—during the day, I’m a full-time ‘salaryman’ in a web design company, but at night I come to ‘2-chome’ to work here as a barman, Yuu, who declined to give his last name, told Reuters. “At work no one knows about my secret and I have been living this double-life for some seven years now.”
Since nine years Nepal has its Gaijatra International Pride Festival, organized by the Blue Diamond Society. At the 25th August there will be the first Nepal Gay Pride in its capital, Kathmandu.
Since nine years, the Blue Diamond Society organized Nepals Gaijatra International Pride Festival. Now its going to expand, with the first Gay Pride Parade on the Roof of the World, through the streets of Kathmandu.
The 25th of August, the date for Nepals first gay pride, is not accidentally chosen. On this day, the Hindus celebrate the Gai –Ratra , a traditional day to celebrate the last year deads. And its part of the celebration ,that some Men are wearing womens clothing, what makes the Day to a special event for Lesbians, Gays and Transgenders.
Fiat 500 Leather
Accurate to the beginning of the Gay Pride Parade Season, Fiat designs five Fiat 500, especially for the gays.
Perfect for the Gay Pride Parade Season, Fiat gave its Design Team order to design five Fiat 500, especially for gays.
These five Fiat 500 won’t be in sale, but tahts no reason for us not to show these funny cars to you. Fiat designed one car for every taste:
Fiat 500 Disco
Fiat 500 Bear
Since some time the journey market discovers the gay traveller as new customer base.
The gay community ist much more in motion than the heterosexual people and so its no suprise that gay men are traveling much more than heterosexual. In the last time the travel business recognized that and is now focusing on gay men as new target group.
Nearly in every bigger city you can find a gay hostel, which specialized to gay men as customers. This kind of hostels are interesting for gay travellers, particularly while the CSD or the Gay Pride, because there they are under one’s peers. Also, in the majority of cases, the gay hostels are located nearby the gay-and lesbian scene.
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