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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Amsterdam Gay Pride Draws Revelers To The City's Canals

Amsterdam Gay Pride Draws Revelers To The City's Canals

AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of thousands of gay rights supporters thronged Amsterdam's canals for the city's annual boat float parade, a party marking the high point of Gay Pride week.

The event features gay, lesbian and transgender people, many of them scantily-clad, dancing to music on elaborate boat-floats with onlookers cheering them on.

This year, Dutch homosexuals of Turkish ancestry had their own float, a first. One massive muscle-bound man on the boat swung a big black sign reading "Turkish, Dutch, Netherlander and Proud."

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