Puerto Rico Gay Pride Parade 2009 Uncut - Part 1

The Puerto Rico Gay Pride Parade was held for the 19th consecutive year in Condado's Ashford Avenue (San Juan, PR) last Sunday June 7, 2009. Participants from all around the island and of all orientations came to celebrate freedom of speech in this colorful and playful march down the one of San Juan's main avenues - leading passersby and onlookers in chants demanding equal rights to all.

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[muellerican]

No. This is necessarily how gays LOOK LIKE. It's just a party in the streets. Like a Brazilian Carnival. Luckily Puerto Rico is the most gay-friendly place in the Caribbean. Puerto Ricans have a deep appreciation for privacy, individual liberty and the ability to think for yourself, and education is at the highest in the region. There are many Puerto Ricans living in Massachusetts and Connecticut, both states with equal marriage. Many are of Spanish origin, and see what goes on there.

[waverunner6]

@muellerican have u even been to puerto rico?? they've even tried to pass laws so that gays cant marry/adopt/have rights!! and puerto rican culture is incredibly homophobic (mostly because of the church)... these people get mocked by onlookers and they are incorrectly marginalized by an ignorant society...

[MelanieD22]

Me gusta la satira que hace el que quiere la corbata que dice "Iglesia" para mi es una falta de respeto, que "lideres" religiosos quieran interponerse en la vida de la comunidad gay cuando una de las cosas que se supone que ensene la iglesia sea amor al projimo. La comunidad Gay son seres humanos y entiendo yo que el projimo es todo ser humano, no? Entonces, porque no respetar la forma de pensar de cada quien y vivir todos en paz? Soy straight, pero respeto a mi projimo como cristiana que soy.

[muellerican]

@waverunner6 Who cares about "the Church". PR is not a theocracy. Puerto Rico is not a Christian country. Ask any rabbi. There are thousands of Puerto Rican Jews, Muslims, Agnostics and Atheists. There is not ONE Puerto Rican culture and that's part of the beauty. Otherwise the only option is to conform to the uneducated majority.

[TheSchool45]

@RDpapichulo ok mmaybe stfu beaner

[audixv]

Cómo se llama esa versión de Por ti volaré que se oye en este video?????? :-O Y quién la canta???? Por favor díganme!!!!

[bodybuilder26us]

Cuando ES GAY PRIDE 2011? AlguiEN SABE???

[RDpapichulo]

Puerto RIco, the gayest place on earth.

-Hugo Chavez

[Celly702Pimpin]

Any gay puerto ricans out there? Send me a freind request

[muellerican]

@waverunner6 Um...I live in Puerto Rico. And take a look back at what I wrote since I meant it to be placed within the context of the Caribbean. LGBT people are way worse off in Jamaica, Trinidad, the Dominican Republic and even Cuba. I say even since Vilma Espín, of the Castro family has been quite vocal about equal rights but other than that with all the bureaucracy that goes on in Cuba....PR is way ahead. Now let's compare PR to Canada, Amsterdam and well there you "ate my candies". :o)