August 2nd, 2009 (11:14 pm)
current mood: bouncy
current song: ♥ It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane - The Ark ♥
Oi, mates. I'm in an especially good mood this evening, excited to say the least, so please excuse rushed typing and possible mistakes in terms of sentence structure. (Y)
So. I'm back from a weeked of Pride, in the name of love (<- a play on words from the title of the U2 song, mwaha, because this Friday U2 had their first concert to promote their new album here in Sweden - pretty neat, right? 8D)
Anywho, as I was saying, this week have been Pride week in Stockholm, and me, my dear mother and a couple of friends drove all the way from Nyköping to the country capital (it's really not that far, about one and a half hour by car, one by train) to see the action.
My sister, being a member of RFSL (the swedish equivalent to PFLAG, basically) got to be in the Pride parade, which started at one o'clock and finished two or three hours later, after over a hundred equipages with carriages, rainbow flags, loud, loud music and queers as far as the eye could reach.
It was overall absolutely awesome.
The turnout was not as big as last year's though, because last year Sweden hosted EuroPride, but this time it was fairly packed too. An estimated 50.000 or something like that. Probably doesn't sound all too much for you guys in the states, lol, but for a country of 9 million inhabitants, it's pretty huge. Though I think last year's figures were around a hundred thousand or close to that.
Anyways, more updates to come in a few hours - or tomorrow, it's close to midnight over here, and I'm tired as hell and my feet are hurting - when there will be pictures from the parade. :3
I took a lot of pictures, roughly 600, but I'l probably not post all of them, lol. Wouldn't want to spam ya'll, aight?