Text and photos © Robert Barry Francos / FFanzeen, 2012
Pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them
A link to many more photos at the end
After the PRIDE Parade, everyone gathered in Victoria Park for the festival, with music playing, booths with items for sale or representing encouraging group, writers, and then there was the beer garden.
The mucians playing that I witnessed were Jeffrey Straker (and band) and the wonderful Kirby Criddle. There were other acts after I left (Kinnie Starr, Boy and Gurl, and Run Romeo Run), but I had a long walk home. In all three years, the lead-off were drag king and queens doing lip-syncing to dance hits.
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Writer Wes Funk signing his latest. |
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Rainbow cake. |
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Props to YWCA Saskatoon. |
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The Synagogue takes a stand. |
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Peter Garden, of Turning the Tide Bookstore |
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You are? |
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Some of the Rosebud Burlesque Troupe |
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Local politicans wear the rainbow flag. |
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Organizer, Brice Field |
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More politicans |
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Even more politicans... and where is the mayor? |
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Put a Ring on It... |
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It's fun to stay at the... |
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Jeffrey Straker and group |
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Didn't even know when I took the shot... |
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Jai Richards, of the Avenue Community Centre. |
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A bemused Miki Mappin |
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The line for food. |
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Kirby Criddle |
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Representing AIDS Saskatoon |
More of my photos of the PRIDE Festival can be found
HERE.
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