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Multi-Union Pride float draws Pride cheers

August 7, 2007

More than 300,000 people jammed the streets of Vancouver's West End Sunday for what may have been the largest-ever Pride Parade and the BC Federation of Labour's Multi-Union Pride was in the thick of the celebration. Pride 2007: B.C. Fed President Jim Sinclair flanked by BC Forum members Wendi Lawrence and Lorraine Logan

More than 125 trade unionists from a score of affiliates marched behind this year's float, which featured a huge globe to highlight the fight for rights for GLBT communities around the planet. Federation president Jim Sinclair joined the marchers.


B.C. Fed President Jim Sinclair flanked by BC Forum members Wendi Lawrence and Lorraine Logan

Pride 07: BCGEU president George Heyman and B.C. Fed president JIm Sinclair march in the Pride Parade.

BCGEU president George Heyman and B.C. Fed president Jim Sinclair march in the Pride Parade.

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