AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of thousands of partygoers flocked to Amsterdam on Saturday for the return of the city’s Pride canal parade after two years of…
“I missed it, and I think everybody missed it,” said Chas, 42, as she watched the rainbow flotilla complete with celebrants dancing in feathers, glitter and leather pass under a bridge.
“Originally this was gay pride, but today you see hundreds of thousands of people regardless of whether they’re gay or straight or whatever, and that is so fantastic,” said reveler Jonas van der Kaaij Olsen, 53, draped in a rainbow flag. The Pride festival said its focus is gradually changing from celebrating people’s right to love whomever they want to their right to be whoever they are.
A spokesperson for city health authorities said they are not issuing any special advisory to festival-goers about monkeypox, a virus that causes painful blistering and has been spreading predominantly among men that have sex with men.
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