DC Pride 2009 -- the Parade

17th Street NW, Saturday, June 13: Arguably the best ever, this year's Capital Pride parade lasted over two hours. Valerie Harper led the way:

Earl, David and Frank Kameny, a gay rights pioneer:









Ms Blair Michaels and Southwest Airlines:









DC's Different Drummers:

Councilmember Tommy Wells and his wife Barbara:
Rainbow Families and Radical Fairies:









Gay Baptists and Gay Catholics:









The Rawhide two steppers:

Roller Girls and the DC Fringe Festival:











And their little dog, too:



























The Gay Mens Chorus:









Lou Chibbaro, the first person to have a career as a gay news reporter:
PFLAG and the ACLU:









Homoto and Chesapeake Bears:









The crowd during an interlude:









Ms Ella Fitzgerald:
Ziegfield's and DC's venerable womens' bar Phase 1:









The DC Cowboys:









The DC Eagle with Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather:
The Duplex Diner:
The Academy:

Gay marriage "causes global warming?":









Brit Chicks:









BEST IN PARADE: Freddie's Beach Bar does Wizard of Oz:
Photographees and photographer:









The Big Apple Corps from New York City:









The Washington National Opera:









Nuwear:












The end of the parade: