Gay Pride around the World
Gay pride celebrated around the world
People took to the streets around the world on Sunday to participate in gay pride parades.
Several men take part in a gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain.
Long strings of colorful balloons float above the street past St. Patrick's Cathedral during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade. Marchers marked the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, a raid on the gay-friendly Stonewall Inn that was the starting point for riots that lasted several days in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
A participant looks on during a gay pride parade in New Delhi, India.
Stephan Hengst, left, Patrick Decker, center, and City of Amsterdam Deputy Mayor Carolien Gehrels pose for a photo in front of a traditional Dutch Delft Blue porcelain wedding cake during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade in New York. Hengst and Decker are one of the chosen 5 Trans-continental couples to get married in August's Amsterdam Pride.
People participate in a gay pride parade in New Delhi, India. Hundreds of gay rights supporters waived flags and danced past traffic during marches through three Indian cities Sunday to celebrate gay pride.
Representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community gesture as they participate in Pride March rally in Bangalore, India.
A participant is all dressed up for the gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain.
A drag queen dressed as Liza Minnelli waves to spectators during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade.
A participant in the gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, June 28.
Participants kiss during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul, Turkey. Several hundreds of gays, lesbians and transsexuals participated in the parade, condemning homophobia and violence against them and demanding equal rights.
A man dressed with elements of Michael Jackson's costumes marches in the Gay Pride Parade in New York.
Thousands lined the street or stood on balconies of buildings lining Halsted Street to watch Chicago's 40th annual Gay Pride Parade on Sunday
Thousands line Halsted near Belmont for Chicago's 40th Annual Pride Parade.
Parade participants of all shapes and sizes walk in the Seattle Pride Parade.
Mock cops make their way to the Pride Parade on Sunday in San Francisco.
The Pride Parade makes its way up Market Street on Sunday in San Francisco on Sunday, June 28, 2009
A Toronto fireman hose down spectators during Pride parade along Yonge Street in Toronto, Ont., June 28, 2009.
A group of spectators watch the Pride parade from an open second story window along Yonge Street in Toronto, Ont., June 28, 2009.
Srinivas Ramchander Siras, professor of modern languages at Aligarh Muslim University, was suspended from his job "on moral grounds" and evicted from his college accommodation after students broke in and filmed him with his partner.
He was expected to return to his job later this month after the Allahabad High Court revoked his suspension and ordered him to be reinstated at a hearing last week.
Neighbours called the police to his single room home on Monday and complained of a bad smell. He was found dead inside and detectives believe he had taken his own life.
Homosexual rights campaigners accused students at the college and the media of driving Professor Siras to his death.
Prince Manvendra Singh, India's first openly gay royal, said while homosexuality was no longer illegal in India, the battle against prejudice still had to be won "in people's hearts and minds."
"I would rate this as a murder. These people need to be taken to task. What right did they have to attack his privacy? It was private, consensual sex and these students and television people got him to commit suicide," he said.
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