A few pictures from July, 2014, in the City of Legends - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Including the Pride Parade, Protest for Palestine, and more.
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The food fishery is on in Newfoundland until July 28. Everyone and their mother is out on the water harvesting up to 5 cod each. Most are inexperienced. We've already had one death and three injuries.
Cochrane Street United Church was built by a German company just before the Great War. We confiscated it, and set it up here. It's designed to funnel extreme heat out of the interior. We have no such problem with extreme heat here. The church is going bankrupt trying to keep warm in winter.
One of my favourite reviews of St. John's, from an American tourist...
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More fun to be had here than in most cities twenty times the size. Wide open, with singing and dancing, drinking and carrying on til all hours.
Some of the most enjoyable people in the world in one of the most isolated large settlements thereon.
On the other hand, it's small, cold and foggy and not particularly pretty.
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A rally in support of Palestine was held in the Downtown. The tone here actually isn't really pro-Palestinian, it's just shock as Israel's disproportionate response and a general lack of patience for sectarian tensions. We have our own violent history of Catholic/Anglican fighting, and people generally just want others to treat each other well.
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The Pride Parade. Although it is very LGBT-friendly here, we don't have a history of Pride Parades.
This year was by far the biggest.
Even our police force, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, got in on the action:
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But other Pride Week events, such as the bonfire, gala, fetish night, etc., are all better attended.
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Following the parade, there's a Family Fun Day at Quidi Vidi Lake.
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Then it's off the village of Logy Bay, where the annual Pride Bonfire is held. It's also a great spot for whale watching...
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Some footage from the bonfire, including the comedy routine that always happens when you try to send up Chinese lanterns in Canada's windiest city. You have to write a wish on them - for us, it's that all LGBT people everywhere can have it as good as we do.
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And no good-camera pictures from FRISK (fetish night), but a few friends and I and a short video clip of those festivities.
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