Honolulu Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival, 2008
It is the gay month! And like it or not you will see many gay events happening in June in Hawaii and in many other places in the world.
Yesterday in Honolulu gays and lesbians celebrated the annual event with a pride parade in the morning and a festival afterwards. The gay and lesbian festival took place at the McCoy Pavilion and began at 11:30 am. Many couples gathered and celebrate with their fellows. There was music, drinks, food and the police was there as well. The reason the police was there was to make sure that nobody disturbs the gay festivities due to the fact that some people don’t like gays. Luckily there was not any accident because Honolulu and Hawaii are more open-minded than other places in the world when it comes to homosexuals.
Unfortunately, quite a few states in the U.S. are still backwards in their thinking and the majority of people in these states do not look favoritely at gay. Also, some European countries are still behind in their acceptance of gays as well. For instance, yesterday in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, where the first gay pride festival took place, 88 people were arrested because they were violent against gays. They threw gas bobms, stones, and other stuff at gays and called them bad names. Luckily, no one was injured.
