Xtra.ca videographer James Loewen checked out the BC government's You Gotta Be Out Here event on Fri, Feb 26 — celebrating gay pride at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He chatted with Olympian Mark Tewksbury and others about the importance of gay spaces at the Olympics. ...

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After outrage from readers after they put the execution of gays up for debate, the BBC has now changed its forum to ask, "Should Uganda debate gay execution?" According to The Guardian, "Premoderated posts included one from Chris, Guildford, posted at 8.59am, which attracted 51 recommendations of support. He wrote: 'Totally agree. Ought to be imposed in the UK too, asap. Bring back some respectable family values. Why do we have to suffer 'gay pride' festivals? Would I be allowed to organise a 'straight pride' festival? No, thought as much!! If homosexuality is natural, as we are ...

My head spins at the idea of Gay Pride in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Being surrounded by the sea of handsome, muscular, brown-skinned men with voracious sexual appetites?! Drool. Even in the rain, a million people like the ones I described, attended this year's Pride parade. ...

This is what the dancefloor at The Week looked liked in Rio this past weekend the night before Gay Pride. I am breaking up a sweat just looking at it. Watch a clip of the party and view more pictures of Gay Pride in Rio after the jump. I am still surprised over a million people turned out for the parade with such bad weather. Video and pictures courtesy of MIB readers Rafael and Lance. Thanks guys. ...

The Week São Paulo celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Saturday night party Babylon this past weekend with DJ Chris Cox. I haven't been to the club since Gay Pride, but I have heard there were some pretty cool changes made to the decor. Now put on your sunglasses, take off your t-shirt, and press play to watch a clip of the party, which went on until 10 in the morning on Sunday. I need to make it to The Week one of these weekends to make some new videos of the go-go boys for the blog. ...

Looks like Orlando pride was quite the tea this year.  Lots of hotties, drag queens you don’t wanna mess with, and sexi floats. I really like the Pulse and Parliament House floats going down the street.  There was also a performance at the Parliament house with RuPaul where you could lip sync for your life! Here are some pics from Orlando’s gay Pride 2009 event. MISS PRIDE of ORLANDO: CONGRATULATIONS TO TYRA SANCHEZ There were appearances from Stuart Milk  who made a surprise appearance at the screening of Milk at the Plaza Downtown Cinema.  Pride 2009 is Central Florida’s biggest GLBT-sponsored event October ...

"Bi Pride" is about acceptance and recognition of being bisexual or sexually fluid, and working to maximize bisexual visibility and understanding. ...