NYC

....some photos from wandering around my favourite neighbourhoods in NYC, feeling happy and at home.  

Cannot wait to be in New York again in a few days!

  

1. Maurizio Cattelan billboard on the High Line

2. Car salesman

3. Woman with pink glasses

4. Dog stretching

5.  Man in Puerto Rico T-shirt

6. Yellow taxi, West Village

7. Sign for a psychic, West Village 

8. Funny cartoon on an advertisement

9. A dog curled up on a bed

10. Girl with denim vest

11. 99 cent pizza shop

12. Couple kissing on the subway

13. Man with painted face, Union Square

14. A girl making a face for the camera

15. Flowers, Chelsea

16.  Anti-Freedom, 14th St

Love Is Love

some images contain nudity

The Pride Parade happens during Pride Week in Toronto.  I took these photos at the 33rd annual Pride Parade, which was on Sunday, June 30 this year.  To me, Pride is at once a celebration of diverse sexual and gender identities and a celebration of tolerance and love over bigotry and hate.  Pride is for gay, straight, bi, trans, truck drivers, the fat, the thin, dogs, babies, ballerinas, mermaids - anyone who has an open heart and mind.  It's an enormous, wild, hot & sweaty street party and though it seems that sexuality is at the centre of the celebrations, I think that it's a joyful gathering of acceptance in the broadest sense too.