The parade apparently started in Norrebrø and worked its way down to Rådhuspladsen, which had been set up with a huge stage, Thai food bars and, of course, several booze bars gearing up for all night partying.
Well, let me tell you there was something for everyone. Handy and glamorous fashion tips for women courtesy of a smorgåsbord of tuled and crinolined drag queens, enough tanned and buffed male torsos to set off a stampede of last-chance 40-something men (like me) to Denmark’s health and fitness centres, a float of smurfs (gay ones, I guess) for the kids and, naturally, for any hate-crime and neo-nazi enthusiasts I suppose an overwhelming feeling of being a kid in a candy shop.
But, for me, smile of the day was the at least two-metre tall drag queen shuffling along in black boots with roughly 30cm platforms and not much else. It must have been a very, very long walk for her from Norrebrø and I dread to think of the state of her feet today!
There were lots of laughs and a very large crowd. Even the weather turned on a perfect sunny and warm late summer performance.
Rådhuset
A rainbow for the rainbow parade
Whatever you do, don't ask for her hairdresser's name
Drag queens
More of Paris Hilton's cousins
There's a bear in there
Some Smurfs 'come out' to play
These boots are (n't) made for walking
...and a wedding at Mary & Fred's church
