It's great to live in a city that embraces diversity. Vancouver played host to Pride 2006 this week, with "Pride & Joy" as this year's tag line. Like the years before, today's Pride parade drew in thousands of Vancouverites along Denman and Beach Avenue, cheering and whistling for the "Dykes on Bikes" and the entourage of floats and groups that followed. Among them were politicians like Jack Layton, leader of the NDP, trying to win votes for their party platforms. Surprisingly, even the much loathed Conservative party made an appearance, which I thought was a very brave move on their part. I guess they figured that Prime Minister Stephen Harper being fuck-buddies with President George W. Bush would be appropriate for gay-pride.
Jamie, Jen, and I sat on the curb-side and watched the procession from start to finish. I had higher expectations for this year's Pride parade as Pepsi signed on as a major sponsor for the event, but in my opinion, last year's parade was slightly better.
Later this afternoon, I went to Tinseltown to watch "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Who Killed the Electric Car?". "Sunshine" was an excellent, heart-warming, and hillarious film about a dysfunctional family on the verge of a breakdown. I want to watch it again! "Electric Car" was a documentary about the EV1 car which GM introduced back in 1996 and subsequently killed off just a few years later. It was intriguing and insightful. A must see!
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