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Gay Pride Around the World

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People dress up in colors at the Italian Gay Pride Parade in Bologna, Italy. Around 30,000 people took part at today’s celebrations. The parade was dedicated to the victims of Emilia earthquake. Getty Images
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Revelers carry a 100-foot-long rainbow flag down Duval Street in Key West, Fla. The parade marked the end of the five-day Key West Pride festival. Getty Images
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Charlie Butchart-Cullen, 3, and her sister Sophia Butchart-Cullen, 1, sit in a wagon at the L.A. Pride parade in West Hollywood, Calif. Reuters
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A man watches a smoke grenade peter out during the Rainbow Pride Parade in Bratislava, Slovakia. AFP/Getty Images
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A huge rainbow flag is unfurled during the parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. About 3 million people took part in the parade and its theme: Homophobia has a cure. AFP/Getty Images
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Thousands pack the Avenue Paulista packed alongside participants in the annual parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. AFP/Getty Images
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Two marchers prop up the flag during the annual parade in Tel Aviv, Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis and tourists took part. UPI
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Participants demonstrate in front of the presidential palace during the parade at Syntagma Square in central Athens, Greece. EPA
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Israelis and tourists dance as the parade travels along Tel Aviv’s shoreline. AP
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A tourist watches the parade in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where hundreds of took to the streets on Saturday to demonstrate for their rights. Reuters
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Participants march with rainbow-colored dragons in Salt Lake City’s parade. Over 300 active Mormons and more than 5,000 members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community with their supporters marched in the parade as part of the Utah Pride Festival. Reuters
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Revellers dance along the parade route in West Hollywood, Calif. Reuters
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Revellers travel in a fire engine on the LA Pride parade route in West Hollywood, Calif. The parade is part of the annual Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride celebration in West Hollywood. Reuters
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Spectators applaud during the 2012 Boston Gay Pride Parade. AP
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Participants hold a giant rainbow flag in central Athens during the gay pride parade. Some 1000 people took part at a march organized by Greece’s gay and lesbian community, with the main slogan ‘”Love me, its for free.” AFP/Getty Images
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Demonstrators gather in the Angel of Independence monument to take part in the 34th Gay-Lesbian Pride and Dignity National March in Mexico City, capital of Mexico. ZUMA Press
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Russian police officers detain a gay rights activist during an attempt to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow, Russia. Russian police have detained around a dozen protesters demanding the right to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow. Activists have long petitioned the Moscow government for permission to stage such a parade, but have always been denied. AP
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People participate in a Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil. About 3 million people took part in the parade under the 2012 theme “Homophobia has cure.” AP
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Residents pose for a photographer as they take part in the 34th Gay-Lesbian Pride and Dignity National March, in Mexico City. ZUMA Press
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A child tries to catch color baloons attached to a man taking part in a gay pride parade in Warsaw, Poland. AFP/Getty Images