Vancouver Pride Festival
The Vancouver Pride Parade and Festival is an annual gay pride event, held each year in Vancouver, British Columbia to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and their allies. It is the largest Parade of any kind in Western Canada. The three-year theme for the 2009-2011 Pride Parade & Festival is Educate, Liberate, Celebrate.
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Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or festival:
“Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.