Europride Parade

Yesterday was also the day of the Europride Parade. It was a wonderful day (only partly due to me having champagne and strawberries at 10.30 in the morning). The parade was seen by lots and lots of people - not including me, of course, as I participated in the Skeive filmer (Oslo gay and lesbian film festival) part of the parade. However, due to the wonderful invention of cameras, internet and so on, I have been able to get a little impression. This is my summary:

1) There were well-known people there

The picture of Sir Ian McKellen is from gaysir. I had the good fortune of being invited to dinner with Sir Ian the day before, actually. I keep regarding it as a date - even though there were 28 other guests, and that he didn't (to my knowledge) see me once during the entire evening...

Other celebrities were the leading politician in Oslo (Erling Lae), who is gay, as well as Nils-Jøran Riedl (also gay), who has just been given a job as priest in Oslo. And of course Kim Friele was present - Norway's queen of gay rights work.


(Picture from Dagbladet.)

2) There were good-looking people there
(The category of "good-looking" may of course overlap with the "well-known" category...)

(From Dagbladet.)

3) There were cops there

Police were given permission to use uniforms in the parade, to demonstrate that diversity is appreciated in the police in Norway. Great!

And there were a lot more people as well... A great celebration of diversity! I'm already looking forward to next year...