Sunday, June 1, 2014

Thousands March In Cyprus’ First Gay Pride Parade

The parade was interrupted by anti-gay protesters who called it “shameful,” but the demonstration was still considered “a huge success.”









On Saturday, the country's first ever gay pride parade was held in Nicosia, Cyprus.






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Several thousand people showed up for the event, far surpassing what organizers thought, the Associated Press reports.






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Costas Gavrielides, the president of ACCEPT-LGBT, one of the organizations that worked to organize the parade, said he was overwhelmed because he had expected just a few hundred people to show up.






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