Pride in the City! | Pride Parade and Queer Film Fest | Vancouver | August 5- 28 at Schema : more than ethnic

Pride in the City! | Pride Parade and Queer Film Fest | Vancouver | August 5- 28

Vancouver's Pride Season is upon us and numerous upcoming events promise good queer fun for every community. The program represents the entire multi-ethnic, diverse GBLT community--from family-oriented fare to kink, and spans literary readings, dances, dinners, auctions, performances by women musicians (Chicks with Picks!), a First Nations Pride BBQ, amateur drag events, a kosher vegetarian dinner to welcome Shabbat, and much more.

That flagship (pun intended) event—the Pride Parade—marches forth on August 5th, but celebrations will continue well into August.

The 29th Annual Vancouver Pride Parade on Sunday, August 5, 2007 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. Parade route runs from Denman Street to Pacific and Beach Avenues, and on to Sunset Beach.

Parade Grand Marshals this year include hunky Olympic gold-medal swimmer Marky-Mark Tewksbury, a passionate advocate and supporter of special Olympians, sick children, people living with AIDS, and the values of inclusivity and openness. Tewksbury is a dedicated athlete, speaker, author, and gay activist... and he looks pretty good in a pair of Speedos.

See Vancouver Pride Society's Pride Calendar for more details and a complete listing of events.

If your personal politics run more radical, check out Queeruption 2007, a radical, free, DIY, queer gathering taking place this year on the Sunshine Coast.

Later in the hot and sticky - though hopefully no longer smelly - days of August, escape from the sun and turn your mind to thoughts of the cinema. The "Out On Screen" Queer Film Festival begins August 16th, and will feature a guest appearance by director, playwright and artist John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Complete listings at www.outonscreen.com.

For extra credit: Check out CBC Arts online for an audio-visual tour of gay and lesbian cinema by Montreal author Matthew Hays.

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