Madrid Gay Pride

Our 4th of July was spent celebrating freedom of a more current nature than Jefferson and Sam Adams.  In a country that has such a history of repression against anything not specifically blessed by Jesus or one of the church’s henchmen that used his life to keep the masses in line and torture those who rebelled in any way, it was amazing to see the wonder of 2 million people out to celebrate the freedom to love anyone you want.

We’ve hung at a bunch of Pride parades in San Francisco where the parade route is defined by barriers manned by many cops that protected the elaborate floats passing by in a seriously organized fashion.  The Madrid parade parade was much more of a 2 million person street party with a conga line snaking through the crowd - no floats, but lots of drums and singing and dancing of everyone.  It was good times, good  cervezas (Estrella Galicia), good sangria and alot of freedom!