Gay Pride -09
Helsinki Pride 27.6.2009Tee matka homosuomeen (translation: make a jorney to gayFinland)
There
were over 4000 people taking part in this years Gay Pride. We (Zardra,
Ktiraam & Shuji) were there with a big bunch of our dear friends:
Dino, Miuku, Vaylan, Gaynir, W, Windi, Penpen, Teela and Miharu.
Link to the official siteThank you for the photographers: Shuji, Ktiraam, Zardra &
Penpen.
Click the images to see the full view!

Meeting friends at the Helsinki train station.
1st pic: Dino and Miuku. Miharu behind them.
2nd pic: Vaylan & Shuji
3rd pic: Teela with her cool Rainbow decorations ^^
4th pic: Zardra with a fresh rainbow painting. (painted by Penpen) =D

Still at the Helsinki train station.
1st pic: Miharu, Dino, Miuku, Teemu, Zardra & Vaylan
2nd pic: Penpen, with her rainbow heart (painted by Zardra) yarrr ^_^
3rd pic: Zardra, smile
4th pic: Shuji & Myy

At the Senate Square where the big Pride meeting before the march was.
1st pic: Zardra. Happyhappy!
2nd pic: The Helsinki Cathedral. Pride people. <3
3rd pic: Shuji. She's so pretty in this pic. ^____^

Still there. =D
1st pic: Vaylan, Miharu & Teela
2nd pic: Lahti (our hometown) HLBT (GLBT) group. =)
3rd pic: A man with a fur coat. =P
4th pic: Happy people with pink balloons =D

Still there. =D
1st pic: Charlies Angels ;D Raurrrr <3
2nd pic: Gay Pride crowd.
3rd pic: One of the guys from the London gay choir. They were soooo awesome!
4th pic: more Pride crowd =D

And still =D
1st pic: Shuji & Cilla
2nd pic: Miuku, Vaylan, Zardra and Ktiraam with her aaawesome shirt =D
3rd pic: The invasion of the pink balloons XP Shuji in the Pride truck
(her leg still hurts when she walks for a long time so she travelled in
the truck ^^)

And stillll there =D
1st pic: Rest of our gang arrived. Here are W and Gaynir. =D
2nd pic: From upper left: Windi, Vaylan, Gaynir & Ktiraam.
3rd pic: GayPeoples =D

And we're finally moving. On the actual Gay Pride march.
1st pic: W & Gaynir. Wheee!
2nd pic: Looots of gaypeople!
3rd pic: Lots moooore gaypeoplez ^_^
4th pic: Vaylan. Smiiile ^___^
Views from the Pride truck, the parade is moving <3
1st pic: Leaving the Senate square
2nd pic: Woah what a crowd
3rd pic: a HUGE amount of people ^___^ we were popular =D

And we walk \^_^/
1st pic: The man on the front was really cooool. He spanked people and we bought some awesome pins from him =)
2nd pic: Pride people, walking ^^
3rd pic: Vaylan, Zardra, Ktiraam & Windi, walking =D
4th pic: Teela & Miharu =D

Arrived to the park. Rest in the shadow was nice after the long march.
1st pic: A party balloon. No... guess what this is? OMG! How do I aaaalways manage to take a photo of my freaking boob! XP
2nd pic: Our little group. Vaylan, Ktiraam, Zardra, W, Windi & Gaynir.
3rd pic: The park was so full. And it was so so incredibly fun. =D
There were all these little booths where they gave away free condoms
and other fun stuff... like huuuge GORGEOUS Tom of Finland posters.
<3 <3 <3
4th pic: Park, people people people. Happy people =D

At the park, spending the incredibly awesome afternoon <3
1st pic: Ktiraam and Zardra. ^_____^
2nd pic: Gaynir & W. =D
3rd pic: Teela. With her coooooool hair! =D
Pride program =D
1st pic: Ktiraam and Zardra. ^_____^ Got hungry. Yum, chicken wrap.
2nd/3rd/4th pic: The gay choir of London. They were so absolutely fabulous! <3

Still at the park, browsing around and seeing friends. ^_^
1st pic: Ktiraam (studying Dino's hair =D)
2nd pic: <3 A happy daddy with his baby. <3
3rd pic: Ktiraam with her COOL shirt (it got a lot of happy comments ^^)

Program and friends and wonderful people!
1st pic: The Gay of the year 2009. =D
2nd pic: Miuku =)
3rd pic: Pridepeople ^_^

And more park and gaypeople. <3
1st pic: Zardra and Shuji ^_____^
2nd pic: Finland's next top model Nanna and the presenter of the Pride
park party; Manne. Nanna came out during the "Finland's next top model"
show. =)
3rd pic: Walking back to the city from the park. Penpen and the parlament house. =)
4th pic: SO TRUE! Someone was carrying this sign at the park ^_^
Next year again. It was an incredible day.
~ Zardra, Ktiraam & Shuji
<3